The Norton Learning Blog team recently sat down with award-winning cartoonist Peter Kuper to discuss how he channeled his love of insects into his newest graphic novel, Insectopolis. Kuper shares how COVID-19 inspired his work, why humans should care about insects now more than ever, and how this title might just inspire a future generation of scientists and artists.
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Exhibiting in the Humanities: How Showcasing Student Work Can Transform History and English Classrooms
Craig Nicoletti is an AP U.S. History teacher and Humanities Program Chair at Christian Brothers College High School in St. Louis.
Observation and Curiosity: Helping Students Write About Art
Elizabeth Adan is chair of the women's, gender, and queer studies department and a professor of interdisciplinary studies at California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo. Her 20+ years of teaching and research experience have focused on modern and contemporary art, history, and visual culture as well as feminist theory and practice. She has also …
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Teaching AP® Students to Think Like Art Historians
Jean Robertson is Chancellor’s Professor Emerita at Indiana University’s Herron School of Art and Design, IUPUI. She specializes in art history and theory after 1980. She is a co-author of Thames & Hudson’s art history survey text, The History of Art: A Global View (2021). Another recent book is Oxford University Press’s Themes of Contemporary …
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Teaching Visual and Comparative Analysis in AP® Art History
Dr. Allison Lee Palmer is a professor of art history in the School of Visual Arts at the University of Oklahoma, where she teaches two versions of introduction to art history: one a chronological survey, and one a thematic overview taught in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the university. She also wrote …
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