1. Using Young Adult Literature Across the Curriculum Nicole Hochholzer#
Using Young Adult Literature Across the Curriculum
Nicole Hochholzer

3. Daggett System for Effective Instruction

4. Lexile Literature 1500 - On Ancient Medicine 1400 - The Scarlet Letter
Brown vs. Board of Ed.
War and Peace
Pride and Prejudice
Black Beauty
900 - Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders
800 - The Adventures of Pinocchio
700 - Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery
600 - A Baby Sister for Frances
500 - The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth
400 - Frog and Toad are Friends
300 - Clifford’s Manners

5. Metametrics is an “endorsing partner” of the Common Core State Standards Initiative and they have found:
Text Complexity of K-12 books has become easier over the last 50 years, while the text demands of college and careers has remained constant or increased.
Source: MetaMetrics

6. CCSS and Text Complexity
Lexile range for 11th and 12th grade textbooks is 1050L to 1165L
Lexile range for postsecondary pursuits is between 1200L to 1400L
That’s a potential 250L difference for our proficient seniors, which means they move from a 75% comprehension to 50% comprehension!
Source: MetaMetrics

7. Are YOUR students ready for this??
Grade Band
Current Lexile Band
“Stretch” Lexile Band
K-1
N/A
2-3
450L – 725L
450L – 790L
4-5
645L – 845L
770L – 980L
6-8
860L – 1010L
955L – 1155L
9-10
960L – 1115L
1080L – 1305L
11-CCR
1070L – 1220L
1215L – 1355L
Are YOUR students ready for this??

8. Reading scores for nine-year-olds – who show no decline in voluntary reading – are at an all-time high. Little more than one-third of high school seniors now read proficiently Source: Readicide by Kelly Gallagher

9. Chapter 9 Practices and Instruction
Recommendations for:
starting a literacy initiative
working with ELL students
making the most of professional development time
using young adult literature to enhance a literacy initiative

10. MetaMetrics advocates a “staircase” of increasing text complexity, starting with second grade. Excellent!!!....but what do we do with the students we have NOW, who aren’t even close to grade level??

11. Young Adult Literature to the rescue!!

12. Science: Investigating Genetically Engineered
Organisms

13. There’s always an alternative:
The “Classic”:
The YA alternative:
To Kill a Mockingbird
Romeo & Juliet
A Separate Peace
The Great Gatsby
The Scarlet Letter
Lord of the Flies
Jane Eyre
Spite Fences
Son of the Mob
Looking for Alaska
Jake, Reinvented
Speak
Beauty Queens
A Breath of Eyre

14. Using RAFTs for Book of the Month
Each month, select a high-interest Young Adult title and amass 25 copies
Create a RAFT assignment for students to complete
Once complete, student selects teacher who will give ____ amount of extra credit

15. R.A.F.T. Role – What role will the student assume as a writer?
Audience – Choose an audience for writing
Format – Specify format possibilities the writing will take (comic strip, letter to editor, feature article, poem)
Topic – Define the topic, determine questions to be answered and point to be made
Source: ICLE Strategic Reading Kit

16. Double Helix by
Nancy Werlin
Biology
Genetics

17. RAFT for Double Helix Role – Eli Samuels Audience – Dr. Wyatt
Format – letter
Topic – discussing the ethical issues surrounding his attempt to cure Huntington’s Disease

18. Briar Rose by
Jane Yolen
Social Studies or
History
The Holocaust
Connection to Sleeping Beauty

19. RAFT for Briar Rose Role – Rebecca Audience – General Public
Format – newspaper article
Topic – explaining the mystery of your grandmother’s belongings

20. Fault Line by
Janet Tashjian
Health class
Dating violence

21. RAFT for Fault Line Role – Kip Audience – Becky Format – letter
Topic – explaining your actions and what you have learned

22. Wuthering High by
Cara Lockwood
English
Classic Literature

23. RAFT for Wuthering High
Role – Mia
Audience – your dad and stepmother
Format – letter
Topic – explaining why you want to stay at Wuthering High next year

24. Flash Burnout by
L.K. Madigan
Art class
Photography

25. RAFT for Flash Burnout Role – Blake Audience – Marissa Format – letter
Topic – describing your photography series to her and why you chose the photos you did

26. Chew on This by
Eric Schlosser &
Charles Wilson
Economics
Health Class
Foods Class
Social Studies

27. RAFT for Chew on This Role – McDonald’s executive
Audience – the American public
Format – press release
Topic – defending your practices

28. First Part Last by
Angela Johnson
Teen Parenting
Child Development

29. RAFT for First Part Last
Role – Bobby
Audience – a future parenting class
Format – an advice column
Topic – giving them advice based on your own experiences

30. SWS Geography project
Rwanda
Iraq, Russia
Ghana
Sudan

31. SWS & Spite Fences Spite Fences by Trudy Krisher
Alternative to To Kill a Mockingbird
Works well with CCSS documents

32. “The Common Core Standards…push students, teachers, and districts to include both critical analysis and media production in all classrooms, not simply ELA.” -Sheehy & Clemmons, 2012

33. MATH The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Twelve-year-old Robert is visited in his dreams every night by the Number Devil, who presents concepts such as prime numbers, square roots and infinity.
MATH

34. Project Idea:
Students create storyboard based on their assigned “dream”
Work collaboratively to select scenes, conflicts, turning points and dialogue
Use electronic presentation or movie-making technologies to create a storyboard
-All project ideas from Teaching Young Adult
Literature Today by Hayn & Kaplan

35. MUSIC Fat Kid Rules the World by K. L. Going
296 pound Troy is about to jump off a subway platform when he meets Curt. Can joining Curt’s band as a drummer (even though he can’t play) change his life?
MUSIC

36. Project Idea:
Students analyze the importance of music to Troy and Curt
Develop a timeline for an important year in their own life that reflects how music impacted their life
Use software to create a soundtrack of their own life, along with fictional headlines

37. SCIENCE The Carbon Diaries 2015 by Saci Lloyd
Laura lives in London, in 2015
where carbon rationing
is required of all citizens. This
affects her cell phone use, her
travel and even her food
supply.

38. Project Idea: Students determine their own carbon footprint
Research a country’s carbon emission’s related to its population
Create charts, tables, reports and presentations reporting their research and analysis

39. WORLD LANGUAGES La Linea by Ann Jahamillo
Miguel is fifteen and finally ready to cross the border, but his journey becomes even more dangerous when his little sister tags along.

40. Project Idea:
Students read the Spanish phrases and learn about customs
Discuss and analyze the many facets of immigration issue
Create website documenting Miguel’s journey, researching weather, communities along the way and resources
If possible, written in Spanish

41. SOCIAL STUDIES Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet by Sherri L. Smith
Ana Shen learns about her Chinese American and African American heritage as all four grandparents help prepare her eighth grade graduation meal.

42. Project Idea:
Students learn history and geography as they read about Korean War and African American experience
Groups create wikis to represent different cultures and different experiences with war
Create newspaper/journal from viewpoint of assigned cultural group

43. HEALTH SCIENCE Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
Lia’s battle with anorexia intensifies after her friend Cassie commits suicide.

44. Project Idea: Students choose an unhealthy behavior to research
Using presentation and video software, create Public Service Announcement (PSA)
Share PSA with school or other appropriate audience

45. BUSINESS Feed by M.T. Anderson
Titus and his friends love “the Feed” that gives them 24/7 information. But falling in love with Violet after his breaks down causes him to question what he has always taken for granted.

46. Project Idea: Students choose Feed or another YA title to promote
Use movie-making or publishing software
Use knowledge of marketing, advertising, public relations and budgeting to create an ad, “branding” the book

47. THEATER ARTS or
CREATIVE WRITING
Monster by
Walter Dean Myers
Was Steve really involved in the fatal shooting or a convenience-store owner, or was he in the wrong place at the wrong time?

48. Project Idea: Students analyze the movie-script format of the book
Create a storyboard, choosing scenes from the book to answer the question, “Is Steve a monster?”
Film their own short movie trailer based on the scenes chosen

49. Anticipation Guides Minute Paper Somebody Wanted But So TFCN
Strategies for YA Lit:
Anticipation Guides
Minute Paper
Somebody Wanted But So
TFCN

50. “Got Book?”
Campaign

51. Twilight Mania…

52. Nicole Hochholzer
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