One of the great things about working with “A” track kids is
their thirst for intellectual challenge. These are the kids that
learn German as a hobby and read classic literature for
pleasure. As an informal learning specialist this is where my
work resides. The students identify what they are interested in
and my job is to provide the resources to support their journey
and act as a sounding board as they make the connections with
their formal learning. Take for instance a recent informal
learning journey that began this summer. It started simply
enough. One of the boys was volunteering at the Pop Culture
Museum this summer because he’d been told he had to get a job or
volunteer and the Pop Culture Museum was the least offensive of
all the options. While he was there he was introduced the
sequential art versions of V for Vendetta. V for Vendetta is an
amazing piece of sequential art written by Alan Moore and
illustrated by David Lloyd that depicts a futuristic
totalitarian government. Originally a ten-issue co