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3-13-14

3-13-14. Author Talks: If you brought visual aids or plan to use a web site, go ahead and copy the file(s) to the “Documents” folder and/or load the web page (new tab for each page).

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3-13-14

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  1. 3-13-14 Author Talks: If you brought visual aids or plan to use a web site, go ahead and copy the file(s) to the “Documents” folder and/or load the web page (new tab for each page).

  2. The goal of the "author study" is to introduce the class to a particular author: his or her books, web presence (to include website, blog, various social media, etc), and the kind of books we might expect from this author in the future. Your presentation should include… • biographical information about your author • list of the author's YA books • the author's online presence • at least two book talks Basically, your presentation should allow us to introduce the author to students.

  3. Author Talks

  4. Marketing YA Lit: Changing with the Times

  5. What is our responsibility with respect to what students read from the class or school library? How to we choose which books to TEACH to the whole class or to small groups?

  6. Reality check: works you might be told to use… FDHS, 9th grade - Card: Ender’s Game - Dickens: Great Expectations - Dramer: Romiette and Julio - Finn: Breaking Point - Gibson: The Miracle Worker - Grimes: Bronx Masquerade - Hamilton: Mythology - Hickam: October Sky - Homer: The Odyssey - Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird - Lipsyte: The Contender - Philbrick Last Book in the Universe - Shakespear Romeo and Juliet - Spinelli: Stargirl - Steinbeck The Pearl - Townsend: Secret Diary of Adrian Mole FDHS, 10th grade - Anaya: Bless Me Ultima - Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 - DuBois: The Souls of Black Folk - Frank: Alas Babylon - Gaines: Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman - Guy: Friends - Hesse: Out of the Dust - Knowles: A Separate Peace - Lowry: The Giver - Myers: Monster - Potok: The Chosen - Rand: Anthem - Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front - Rose: Twelve Angry Men - Salinger: Catcher in the Rye - Shakespeare: Julius Caesar - Weisel: Night

  7. Reality check: works you might be told to use… FDHS, 11th grade - Conroy: The Water is Wide - Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby - Gaines: A Gathering of Old Men - Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun - Hawthrone: The Scarlet Letter - Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea - Lawrence/Lee: Inherit the Wind - Miller: The Crucible - Myers: Fallen Angels - Steinbeck Of Mice and Men - Twain: The Adventures - Cather: My Antonia - Crane: The Red Badge Of Courage - O’ Brien: The Things They Carried - Wharton: Ethan Frome - Williams: The Glass Menagerie FDHS, 12th grade - Benitez: A Place Where the Sea Remembers - Bronte: Wuthering Heights - Christie: And The There Were None - Doyle: The Hounds of the Baskerviles - Golding: Lord of the Flies - Orwell: 1984 - Shakespeare: Macbeth - Shelley: Frankenstein - Swift: Gulliver’s Travels - Uchida: The Picture Bride - Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray

  8. Reality check: works you might be told to use…

  9. Reality check: works you might be told to use…

  10. Formal Paper: sample topics from recent semesters • Readability and YA Lit • Using YA Lit to Meet Academic Standards • Graphic Novels: An Evolving Genre • Body Image Issues in YA Lit • Advertising Literacy: Using Book Trailers to Promote YA Lit • A Case for Multicultural Lit in the Classroom • Egocentrism and the Young Adult • Using Colloquialisms in YA Lit • Shaping Selves: YA Lit and Identity Construction • YA Lit Censored in SC • Assessment: The Problem of Grading Reading • Girls Like Sports Too: An Evaluation of YA Sports Lit • Vicarious Education: Teaching the Human Condition through YA Novels • Creating an Environment for Adolescent Readers • YA Lit: Educational Tools for Parents • Luring Young Adults to Read • Social and Emotional Value of YA Lit • Reading Habits: National and Local Trends • YA Lit in the AP Classroom

  11. Next week: Bring working draft of formal paper (USB drive, email) Meet in Capers 313 (computer lab) Book talks: graphic novels Note: If you haven’t “claimed” your graphic novel, either do so today (hard copy) or email me as soon as you have a book.

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