Today's episode involves our first ever comic on Teachin' Books! I'm excited to share with you  how I teach Kate Beaton's webcomic Ducks, which you should definitely read right now, if you haven't already.

Topics of the episode include: confronting environmental and social justice through literature, i.e. through visual and textual analysis; teaching within and around public narratives about Fort McMurray; reading text alongside paratext; and celebrating the effectiveness of a discussion forum prompt that was actually successful (!!). Listen in and tell me what you think!

• Kate Beaton's Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands / original five-part series / Hark! A Vagrant
• Aritha van Herk's "There’s more to Fort McMurray than oil sands – It’s a real community"
• Anti-Racism on the Prairies: A Workbook for Canadian Settlers(with thanks, again, to SURJ #yxe for sharing this Call for Contributions)

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The podcast music is by Dyalla Swain and the graphics are by @muskrathands.

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 **The transcript for this episode, once available , will be here.**