Comix Journalism: Yo, Miss: A Graphic Look at High School (Paperback)

from mjspear

Wilde's look at an English teacher's year in an alternative high school is "Up the Down Staircase" for the 2010s. While likely appeal to the hard-working English teacher (those essays! those required readings!) the book will be less popular with the students of which she writes. In addition, the ...

from jnwelch

I got so much more out of Yo Miss by Lisa Wilde than I expected to. The drawings are rough and primary, but the story of these kids, this school, and this teacher, overrides that. Plus the drawing style took on some charm as I got further into the book, and she makes some clever layout choices. T...

from ElizaJane

This is the author's memoir of her first year of teaching English at an inner-city second chance charter high school in 1997. I'm a big proponent of all alternate schooling methods so, of course, found the topic very interesting. It's a good story and well-told. I really liked how the author brou...