Over the past summer (July 2023), I had the opportunity to be a guest instructor for Teaching with Primary Sources class “Igniting Inquiry: Discovering the Stories Primary Sources Tell,” a grant-funded program offering professional development opportunities to K-12 teachers. I taught two half-day workshops, first introducing an accordion album book and then doing a speed-run of ten different simple zine and book structures. Then, the students took what they learned from the rest of the week, including visiting the Free Library of Philadelphia, participating a tea ceremony, to make the books their own!
I can offer credit to Michele Kishita and Jodi for inviting me to participate, Carolina Blatt for the koi book, and Matthew Stemler for the book with the horizonal tears. I’d love to put a name to each of them— I collected permission to take each of these images but next time I’ll make a note to record everyone’s name as well!
