3-7-13where we’ve been & where we’re going jan 10 – introductions & course overview...
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3-7-13 Where We’ve Been & Where We’re Going
Jan 10 – Introductions & Course Overview
Jan 17 – CCSS; Readicide; Woods Runner
Jan 24 – Defining/Describing YA Lit; Between Shades of Gray
Jan 31 – Setting up Book Clubs
Feb 07 – Book Club 1A
Feb 14 – Recreational Reading (SSR); Book Club 1B
Feb 21 – Building a Class Library; YA Issues; Book Club 2A
Feb 28 – Formal Paper due; Book Club 2B
Mar 07 – YA Genres & Marketing; Book Club 3A
Mar 14 – Learning Styles; Book Club 3B
Mar 21 – Book Club Group Reports; Book Club Paper due
Mar 28 – Units of Study; Kizzy Ann Stamps
Apr 04 – Spring Break; no class
Apr 11 – Unit Plan due
Apr 18 – Final Exam due
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Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction / Problem Novel
Character: “regular” people, often lower class
Setting: difficult living situation
Language: colloquial (often with profanity & bad grammar)
Content: problems/challenges faced by teens
Attitude: goal is to allow vicarious experience (rather than, say, to provide instruction in manners and morals)
•counterbalance to realism (happy endings)
•generally involves a quest/leaving home
•protagonist undergoes trials, but prevails
•extreme sufferings (nightmare quality)
•unlikely successes (happy daydream quality)
Genre: Romanticism
Genre: Dystopias
Key elements:
“a setting so vividly and clearly described that it becomes almost a character in itself”
“individuals or forces in charge who have a legitimate reason for being as they are”
“protagonists who are shaped by their environment and situations”
“a conclusion that reflects the almost always dire circumstances”
(These characteristics could be useful measures by which to evaluate the quality of a work.)
Why do we teach “classic” dystopian novels?What standards do we meet?What goals do we have?
How might YA novels compare, in terms of accomplishing the same goals or eliciting the same kinds of thinking and writing?
Dystopian Novels
Historical Fiction
Why do we teach history?
What might students learn from fiction that’s worthwhile – and maybe not accessible from textbooks or fact-intensive texts?
Book Club Discussion 3A
Group Members: Annalisa, Devan, Jacqueline, Josie , Richard
Topic #3: From Print to Film (Books Made into Movies)Books: The Perks of Being a Wallflower; Beautiful Creatures; The Life of Pi; The Last of the Mohicans
Group Members: Ashlee, Holly, Laura, Paul
Topic #3: My America seriesBooks: Our Strange New Land; Freedom's Wings; The Starving Time; A Poetry Atlas; Flying Free
Group Members: Erin, Jeannie, Michael, Tammy
Topic #3: NonfctionBooks: Baghdad Burning; Girl, Interrupted; The Pregnancy Project;A Long Way Home