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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).

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.

• 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.

Your presentation should include…

Author Talks

Marketing YA Lit: Changing with the Times

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?

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

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

Reality check: works you might be told to use…

WAHS, 9th gradeAnimal FarmCold Sassy TreeCry, the Beloved Country Everyman (Honors Eng. I)Fahrenheit 451The Good Earth (Honors Eng. I)Great ExpectationsHard TimesThe HobbitHouse on Mango StreetHunger of Memory (excerpts)I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsThe Illiad (Honors Eng. I)Much Ado About NothingNarrative of Frederick Douglass Old Man and the SeaThe Power and the GloryPygmalionRomeo and JulietSiddhartha (Honors Eng. I)The Tempest (Honors Eng. I)Utopia (Honors Eng. I)The VirginianThe Water is Wide

WAHS, 10th gradeAll Quiet on the Western FrontCandide (Honors Eng. II)Cyrano De BergiacEthan FromeFast Food Nation (excerpts)The Glass Menagerie Julius CaesarLong Walk to FreedomLord of the Flies (Honors Eng. I)Midsummer Night’s Dream1984 (Honors Eng. II)NightOf Mice and MenPortrait of a LadyPride and Prejudice (Honors Eng. II)

Return of the NativeA Separate PeaceSilas MarnerThe Stranger (Honors Eng. II)A Tale of Two CitiesThings Fall Apart12 Angry Men

Reality check: works you might be told to use…

WAHS, 11th grade)Absalom, Absalom!The Adventures of Huck FinnThe CrucibleDeath of a Salesman (AP Lit. also)For Whom the Bell TollsThe FountainheadThe Great GatsbyThe House of MirthO'Neill PlaysA Raisin in the SunThe Red Badge of CourageThe Scarlet LetterSketchbookA Streetcar Named DesireThe Sun Also RisesTheir Eyes are Watching GodThree Plays - WilderTrifles in A Book of Plays

WAHS, 12th gradeBeowulfCanterbury TalesDon QuixoteDr. FaustusDr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeEpic of Gilgamesh (Honors Eng. I)Frankenstein (Honors Eng. II)HamletHeart of Darkness (Honors Eng. II)Hedda GablerIbsen Plays (Honors Eng. II)The Importance of Being EarnestJane Eyre (Honors Eng. II)King LearLes MiserablesMacbethMoll FlandersMurder in the CathedralOliver TwistOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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

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.