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Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA | Mar 11, 2005

Learning culture through comics
Can comics be used to teach history? Can role-playing grant you a view into a culture? Marnie Jorenby, the head of the Japanese department, thinks so. In her course, Japanese Comics and War, students create characters in World War II Japan and role-play through the characters’ lives up to when the atomic bomb hit Hiroshima. [more]

Toasted cheese sophistiqué
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Taking time to tutor
Omer stares pensively into space for a moment, trying to recall a certain word. His assignment for the evening is to describe a fruit: how it smells, its color, its taste. [more]