1. 3-7-13Where 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 You are here

2. 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)

3. Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction / Problem Novel

4. 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

7. What is our responsibility with respect to what students read from the class or school library?

8. 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.)

9. Dystopian Novels

10. 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

11. 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?

12. Book Talks

13. 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 series Books: Our Strange New Land; Freedom's Wings; The Starving Time; A Poetry Atlas; Flying Free Group Members: Erin, Jeannie, Michael, Tammy Topic #3: Nonfction Books: Baghdad Burning; Girl, Interrupted; The Pregnancy Project; A Long Way Home

14. Next Week: Final Book Club discussion (3B) Plan Book club presentation for March 21 Looking Farther Ahead: Read some Civil Rights era books for March 28, when we will discuss Kizzy Ann Stamps