syllabus ENGL344 Young Adult Literature
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Summer 2018 Office Hours:
face-to-face by appointment, email me to arrange a meeting time and place. ONLINE: Thursday 9:00 AM TO NOON |
10 July 2018 (FACE-TO-FACE MEETING)
INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE. Explanation of how this class will work as a hybrid/summer course. What to do on face-to-face days. What to do, and when, to do on-line things. IN-CLASS: In-class writing to establish book club groups and to draft first assignment. Sample book club (Girl by Jamaica Kincaid). Sample Teaching Scenario/Whole Class Discussion Board (Moth Story Hour“Is Your Dad Single?”). Overview of policies and procedures. In-class discussion of "A Personal Theory of My Reading Life."
13 July 2018 (ONLINE CLASS)
Posts/Journals due by midnight.
READ: 7th Grade by Gary Soto, read, also, Louise Rosenblatt’s chapter from Literature as Exploration available here. LISTEN: From “The Moth” Story hour: “Maybe”, “The Secret Letter” DUE: Book Club Journal, email journal to group. POST TO ALL-CLASS DISCUSSION BOARD: Consider the teaching scenarios posted in this week’s discussion board. What would be the joys and complexities of teaching this text in these various scenarios. Read and respond to at least one of your colleagues in addition to your original post. Post your "A Personal Theory of My Reading Life" for workshopping by your book club group mates (and me).
MONDAY 16 JULY 2018 READ MONDAY UPDATE.
17 July 2018 (FACE-TO-FACE MEETING)
READ: Marcelo in the Real World. Read, also, "A Case for the Autistic Perspective in Young Adult Literature" available here. Read, also, selection on Reader-Response theory from Wolfgang Iser here. DUE: Book Club Journal (bring to class rather than post to group). Hard copy of "A Personal Theory of My Reading Life" to turn in to me. Include a print out of workshop draft and comments from your book club group. IN-CLASS: A face-to-face book club, in-class “discussion board” classroom scenario activity. Also, questions/concerns/demonstration of Theory-to-Practice Pecha Kucha assignment. Theory/practice sign up. Please come to class having read the assignment description on-line here.
20 July 2018 (ONLINE CLASS)
Posts/Journals due by midnight.
READ: This article on Feminism and The Baby Sitter’s Club series, this critic-at-large piece about the novel The Hunger Games, and, finally, this (non-scholarly and totally approachable) article about the history of YA lit. BOOK CLUB READING JOURNAL: for this journal, select a “popular” YA Lit selection—Harry Potter, Maze Runner, Twilight, Hunger Games, whatever you would like, though it needs to be popular. A good rule of thumb? All of the books I list here had major Hollywood movies made out of them—with sequels. It doesn’t have to be the same text for the whole group. And not everyone needs to have read your choice. Whatever you choose, do a Book Club Reading Journal on that text. Essentially, I’m asking you to do a literary/critical analysis. Email it to your Book Club group (and me). POST TO ALL-CLASS DISCUSSION BOARD: Consider this week's teaching scenario in light of teaching a "popular" piece of YA lit of your choosing. Also, there will be a place to post questions/concerns about your Theory-to-Practice Pecha Kucha assignment.
MONDAY 23 JULY 2018 READ MONDAY UPDATE.
24 July 2018 (FACE-TO-FACE MEETING)
READ: The Carnival at Bray and this article, “‘Unconditionally and Irrevocably’”: Theorizing the Melodramatic Impulse in Young Adult Literature through the Twilight Saga and Jane Eyre on melodrama in YA. DUE: Book Club Journal (bring to class rather than post to group); Theory-to-Practice Pecha Kucha to be presented in class. BE SURE TO POST YOUR PECHA-KUCHA TO OUR DROPBOX FOLDER IN TIME FOR CLASS. IN-CLASS: in-class book club and “discussion board” classroom scenario activity. Also, discussion of “How We’d Teach That.”
27 July 2018 (ONLINE CLASS)
Posts/Journals due by midnight
READ: March, Book I. Read also about using graphic novels in middle and secondary classrooms, available here. DUE: Book Club Reading Journal. Email it to your Book Club group (and me). POST TO ALL-CLASS DISCUSSION BOARD: Consider this week's teaching scenario in light of teaching a "popular" piece of YA lit of your choosing. Also, there will be a place to post questions/concerns about your “How We’d Teach That” project.
MONDAY 30 JULY 2018 READ MONDAY UPDATE.
31 July 2018 (FACE-TO-FACE MEETING)
READ: Orange Houses. Read, also, article on teaching social justice in young adult lit available here. DUE: Book Club Journal (bring to class rather than post to group). PRESENTATIONS: “How We’d Teach That” IN-CLASS: A face-to-face book club, in-class “discussion board” classroom scenario activity. In-class discussion of Assignment Design final project.
3 August 2018 (ONLINE CLASS)
Posts/Journals due by midnight
READ: Well, we haven't done poetry yet, so read and select between 3 and five poems from one of these two websites: 25+ Slam Poems suitable for middle and high school or 24 must read poems for middle and secondary school students. Read, also, about this article about teaching civic-mindedness available here. DUE: Book Club Reading Journal. Email it to your Book Club group (and me). POST TO ALL-CLASS DISCUSSION BOARD: Consider this week's teaching scenario in light of teaching March, Book I. Also, there will be a place to post questions/concerns about your Assignment Design final project.
MONDAY 6 AUGUST 2018 READ MONDAY UPDATE.
7 August 2018 (ONLINE CLASS)
Posts/Journals due by midnight
READ: READ: I’ll Give You The Sun. Read, also, “Codes, Silences, and Homophobia: Challenging Normative Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary LGBTQ Young Adult Literature” available here. SEND TO BOOK CLUB GROUP: Your Book Club Reading Journal. Email to your book club group (and to me). POST TO ALL-CLASS DISCUSSION BOARD: Consider this week’s teaching scenario in relationship to TBA and other readings. On-Line "conferences" with me about your Assignment Design final project.
10 August 2018 (ONLINE CLASS) LAST CLASS
DUE: Your Assignment Design. Please post this to our class drop box. POST TO ALL-CLASS DISCUSSION BOARD: : Read and respond to at least three of your colleagues assignment designs. Identify what is valuable about what they are proposing. Indicate how these assignments reflect the ideas, values, and theories we've been talking about this summer.
MONDAY 13 AUGUST 2018: Final Monday Update. You are under no obligation to read this since class is over, but I will post a reflection on the final projects and our class for the last time. You will receive individual final grade letters by the end of the week.
INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE. Explanation of how this class will work as a hybrid/summer course. What to do on face-to-face days. What to do, and when, to do on-line things. IN-CLASS: In-class writing to establish book club groups and to draft first assignment. Sample book club (Girl by Jamaica Kincaid). Sample Teaching Scenario/Whole Class Discussion Board (Moth Story Hour“Is Your Dad Single?”). Overview of policies and procedures. In-class discussion of "A Personal Theory of My Reading Life."
13 July 2018 (ONLINE CLASS)
Posts/Journals due by midnight.
READ: 7th Grade by Gary Soto, read, also, Louise Rosenblatt’s chapter from Literature as Exploration available here. LISTEN: From “The Moth” Story hour: “Maybe”, “The Secret Letter” DUE: Book Club Journal, email journal to group. POST TO ALL-CLASS DISCUSSION BOARD: Consider the teaching scenarios posted in this week’s discussion board. What would be the joys and complexities of teaching this text in these various scenarios. Read and respond to at least one of your colleagues in addition to your original post. Post your "A Personal Theory of My Reading Life" for workshopping by your book club group mates (and me).
MONDAY 16 JULY 2018 READ MONDAY UPDATE.
17 July 2018 (FACE-TO-FACE MEETING)
READ: Marcelo in the Real World. Read, also, "A Case for the Autistic Perspective in Young Adult Literature" available here. Read, also, selection on Reader-Response theory from Wolfgang Iser here. DUE: Book Club Journal (bring to class rather than post to group). Hard copy of "A Personal Theory of My Reading Life" to turn in to me. Include a print out of workshop draft and comments from your book club group. IN-CLASS: A face-to-face book club, in-class “discussion board” classroom scenario activity. Also, questions/concerns/demonstration of Theory-to-Practice Pecha Kucha assignment. Theory/practice sign up. Please come to class having read the assignment description on-line here.
20 July 2018 (ONLINE CLASS)
Posts/Journals due by midnight.
READ: This article on Feminism and The Baby Sitter’s Club series, this critic-at-large piece about the novel The Hunger Games, and, finally, this (non-scholarly and totally approachable) article about the history of YA lit. BOOK CLUB READING JOURNAL: for this journal, select a “popular” YA Lit selection—Harry Potter, Maze Runner, Twilight, Hunger Games, whatever you would like, though it needs to be popular. A good rule of thumb? All of the books I list here had major Hollywood movies made out of them—with sequels. It doesn’t have to be the same text for the whole group. And not everyone needs to have read your choice. Whatever you choose, do a Book Club Reading Journal on that text. Essentially, I’m asking you to do a literary/critical analysis. Email it to your Book Club group (and me). POST TO ALL-CLASS DISCUSSION BOARD: Consider this week's teaching scenario in light of teaching a "popular" piece of YA lit of your choosing. Also, there will be a place to post questions/concerns about your Theory-to-Practice Pecha Kucha assignment.
MONDAY 23 JULY 2018 READ MONDAY UPDATE.
24 July 2018 (FACE-TO-FACE MEETING)
READ: The Carnival at Bray and this article, “‘Unconditionally and Irrevocably’”: Theorizing the Melodramatic Impulse in Young Adult Literature through the Twilight Saga and Jane Eyre on melodrama in YA. DUE: Book Club Journal (bring to class rather than post to group); Theory-to-Practice Pecha Kucha to be presented in class. BE SURE TO POST YOUR PECHA-KUCHA TO OUR DROPBOX FOLDER IN TIME FOR CLASS. IN-CLASS: in-class book club and “discussion board” classroom scenario activity. Also, discussion of “How We’d Teach That.”
27 July 2018 (ONLINE CLASS)
Posts/Journals due by midnight
READ: March, Book I. Read also about using graphic novels in middle and secondary classrooms, available here. DUE: Book Club Reading Journal. Email it to your Book Club group (and me). POST TO ALL-CLASS DISCUSSION BOARD: Consider this week's teaching scenario in light of teaching a "popular" piece of YA lit of your choosing. Also, there will be a place to post questions/concerns about your “How We’d Teach That” project.
MONDAY 30 JULY 2018 READ MONDAY UPDATE.
31 July 2018 (FACE-TO-FACE MEETING)
READ: Orange Houses. Read, also, article on teaching social justice in young adult lit available here. DUE: Book Club Journal (bring to class rather than post to group). PRESENTATIONS: “How We’d Teach That” IN-CLASS: A face-to-face book club, in-class “discussion board” classroom scenario activity. In-class discussion of Assignment Design final project.
3 August 2018 (ONLINE CLASS)
Posts/Journals due by midnight
READ: Well, we haven't done poetry yet, so read and select between 3 and five poems from one of these two websites: 25+ Slam Poems suitable for middle and high school or 24 must read poems for middle and secondary school students. Read, also, about this article about teaching civic-mindedness available here. DUE: Book Club Reading Journal. Email it to your Book Club group (and me). POST TO ALL-CLASS DISCUSSION BOARD: Consider this week's teaching scenario in light of teaching March, Book I. Also, there will be a place to post questions/concerns about your Assignment Design final project.
MONDAY 6 AUGUST 2018 READ MONDAY UPDATE.
7 August 2018 (ONLINE CLASS)
Posts/Journals due by midnight
READ: READ: I’ll Give You The Sun. Read, also, “Codes, Silences, and Homophobia: Challenging Normative Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary LGBTQ Young Adult Literature” available here. SEND TO BOOK CLUB GROUP: Your Book Club Reading Journal. Email to your book club group (and to me). POST TO ALL-CLASS DISCUSSION BOARD: Consider this week’s teaching scenario in relationship to TBA and other readings. On-Line "conferences" with me about your Assignment Design final project.
10 August 2018 (ONLINE CLASS) LAST CLASS
DUE: Your Assignment Design. Please post this to our class drop box. POST TO ALL-CLASS DISCUSSION BOARD: : Read and respond to at least three of your colleagues assignment designs. Identify what is valuable about what they are proposing. Indicate how these assignments reflect the ideas, values, and theories we've been talking about this summer.
MONDAY 13 AUGUST 2018: Final Monday Update. You are under no obligation to read this since class is over, but I will post a reflection on the final projects and our class for the last time. You will receive individual final grade letters by the end of the week.