Brittany Petronella

She/her ◦ Queens College MA ‘21 ◦ English teacher ◦ Recommend some new books for me to read! 📚🤓

[Brittany Petronella @bmpetronella]

mmmm I like $80,000 starting, that’s a little better :)
Sincerely, an English teacher from your alma mater (go knights!)

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

I do not think we should accept it as 'normal' in our society that billionaires get massive tax breaks while teachers in this country have to work a second job just to make ends meet.

We must pay all teachers in America at least $60,000.

[Brittany Petronella @bmpetronella]

@CheyanneTraill Agree, I’m 100% team manuscript, that woman was a sicko lmaooo

[Brittany Petronella @bmpetronella]

#HongComics hi! I’m Brittany and I am in the post-baccalaureate program for secondary English Ed.! My pronouns are she/her and I absolutely love to read, so if you have any good book recs, send them my way!

[Brittany Petronella @bmpetronella]

@CheyanneTraill Also now that you finished Verity are you team manuscript or team letter 😂

[Brittany Petronella @bmpetronella]

@CheyanneTraill omg that makes me so happy 🫶🏻 I’m so glad you liked!! Here are some of my other recs for books that I also couldn’t put down — let me know if you read any of them and what you thought 🤗

[Brittany Petronella @bmpetronella]

#HongComics https://t.co/SbAjf3tdO8 I saw this just now and thought it was so beautiful and very relevant to our discussions in class! 🫶🏻

[Brittany Petronella @bmpetronella]

@AllisonBrntt I agree with you! I loved this comic because it really broke the boundaries of the expectations we place on creators of color to exclusively discuss topics related to their cultures

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#HongComics bonus tweet: One thing I'm definitely taking from this class was the literature we used! We've read so many narratives that I am so excited to bring to my classroom one day. This class has diversified my taste in literature so much in both genre and topic 🤍

[Brittany Petronella @bmpetronella]

#HongComics ...the societal push to write only about the experiences of other POC instead of allowing them the freedom to creative stories that exist outside that narrow window.

[Brittany Petronella @bmpetronella]

#HongComics I enjoyed returning to our week 1 roots with some short webcomics this week. I love the idea of webcomics because it reminds me so much of reading comics in the paper. The format being so short and sweet is a bit nostalgic and I...

[Brittany Petronella @bmpetronella]

#HongComics ...unfairly placed on the shoulders of creators or color to produce trauma narratives almost exclusively. "I want to write about love" Khor states, "but I do not want to write about interracial love." In this brief narrative, Khor is questioning...

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#HongComics spotted in the library of the middle school I’m subbing at today!! Made me happy to see 😌

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#HongComics bonus tweet: something that's brought me joy lately are the beautiful Christmas decorations that have been going up!

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#HongComics ...were still colorful and expressive. The hand-drawn style and rich storytelling made this story both engaging and informative.

[Brittany Petronella @bmpetronella]

#HongComics Shing Yin Khor's "The Legend of Auntie Po" was another fast favorite of mine! Even before I began reading, I marveled at the variety of artwork we've seen over the course of this semester. All of the books we read can be categorized as...

[Brittany Petronella @bmpetronella]

#HongComics ...also set in the past. I find that the stories which include some kind of historical context tend to be my favorite graphic narratives, I'm not sure why. The color palette in this book was so lively and vibrant; even scenes of distress or darkness...

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@confetti8888 I loved the connection to the fable in the beginning and the parable his mother tells him!