today's young adult literature: bridges to the classics

Today’s Young Adult

Literature:Bridges to the classics & Stand-Alone readings

We want our students to enjoy reading...

That’s one of the International Reading

Association/NCTE Standards

12. Students use spoken, written, and visual language to accomplish their own purposes (e.g., for learning, enjoyment, persuasion, and the exchange of information).

So, what do your students read for

PLEASURE?

Odds are--they read

and enjoyedStephanie Meyer’s

Twilight series

Can we use books like

Twilight in our English

Curriculum? with validity & authenticity

We know that pairing texts with similar themes “works”

I’m sure you can put any number of texts in this list

We know that pairing texts with similar themes “works”

• Romeo & Juliet with West Side Story

I’m sure you can put any number of texts in this list

We know that pairing texts with similar themes “works”

• Romeo & Juliet with West Side Story

• Hamlet with Siddhartha and Things Fall Apart

I’m sure you can put any number of texts in this list

We know that pairing texts with similar themes “works”

• Romeo & Juliet with West Side Story

• Hamlet with Siddhartha and Things Fall Apart

• Julius Caesar with Animal Farm

I’m sure you can put any number of texts in this list

We know that pairing texts with similar themes “works”

• Romeo & Juliet with West Side Story

• Hamlet with Siddhartha and Things Fall Apart

• Julius Caesar with Animal Farm

• The Age of Innocence with Ethan Frome

I’m sure you can put any number of texts in this list

We know that pairing texts with similar themes “works”

• Romeo & Juliet with West Side Story

• Hamlet with Siddhartha and Things Fall Apart

• Julius Caesar with Animal Farm

• The Age of Innocence with Ethan Frome

• The Scarlet Letter with Anna Karenina

I’m sure you can put any number of texts in this list

This is another NJCCCS

• 3.1.12.H.9 Read and compare at least two works, including books, related to the same genre, topic, or subject and produce evidence of reading (e.g., compare central ideas, characters, themes, plots, settings) to determine how authors reach similar or different conclusions.

like Twilight, students may be more likely to remain engaged and to

find the applicability of canonical literature to

their lives.

By using popular

coming of age literature

But, how do we integrate Meyer’s Book into the

curriculum?

Can we find ways to

work with these 4

Coming of Age texts?

Let’s discuss this...as we try to cluster together several

popular Coming of Age texts with the required, canonical &

AP texts in our curriculum