Jordan Kincaid

Jordan Kincaid is an illustrator from Richmond Virginia. She is very fond of illustrating monsters, maidens, fairytales, and anything girly! Some of her wonderful clients include: Owlcrate, Alchemy and Ink, Witchcrownbox, Booksnleaf, Bucherbuchse, Maverick, McGraw Hill Education, Pearson, Oxford University Press, and Harper

Collins. Growing up, Jordan was an artsy and different kid. When teaching, she encourages her students to embrace their differences and express themselves through their work. She takes the verses Psalm 139:13-14 to heart. “You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.” When she is not illustrating or teaching she spends her spare time with her loving boyfriend and her cat.

Media Analysis:

Through the Lens of Avatar the Last Airbender

GRADE LEVELS: 6th - 8th

Day/Time: Wednesday - Period: 3rd

Course Description: MEA-68

Students will jump into this introductory media analysis course using the show: Avatar the Last Airbender as their anchor to write various research and opinion based papers. Media analysis has often been described by youths and adults alike as a tedious chore. This course’s aim is to alleviate this by introducing students to the process of analyzing media, using fiction to capture their attention and focus.

In this course, students will:

- Write using complex vocabulary about equally complex content.

- Write structured and well-organized opinion, research, and informative pieces that:

◦ Use supporting claims and evidence based on credible video and text resources.

◦ Include an introduction, transitions, and a conclusion,.

◦ Integrate other forms of media and formats, such as graphs, charts, headings, audio, or video when applicable.

- Write pieces that display their analysis skills, including analysis of video and provided text when applicable, making comparisons and claims, and developing arguments using specific evidence from these resources.

In order to achieve this, we will go over the basics of fictional tropes, characters, and themes to see how fiction can be used to reflect reality. In addition to the show, students will be provided relevant printouts that will relate to real life historical and/or current events for their research based papers and presentations. Students will learn to compare and contrast this additional information to support their analysis. Student’s opinion based pieces will draw directly from specific episodes of Avatar the Last Airbender. They will learn early on that all the characters are complex, just like people in real life. Many of the characters whether they are the protagonists or antagonists are neither all good or bad. Instead, they are all somewhere in the middle. Students will analyze these complexities and construct their own opinion based pieces based on the characters, themes, and situations presented.

Required Materials:

All 3 seasons of Avatar the Last Airbender.

Any additional print outs and .pdfs will be provided by the instructor.

Tuition: Annual tuition $513 (paid in 9 monthly installments of $57).

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