Session 4 Readings and Other Assignments

Required Readings/Other Assignments
[T] = Read Chapters 1&2
[J] = Moore, et. al.
[J] = Sylvester & Greenidge
cancelled  [J] = Zimmer
 [L] = Terms:  Character, Code, Narrative
[O] = NYS ELA Curricula and Standards 2, 3, and 4 
optional[O] = Post ONE "good and hearty" response to your PERSONAL BLOG to the YA Literature you are currently reading
[O] = Use Blackboard to contribute your written responses to the CLASS BLOG on CHARACTER (Dr. Jones is leading the discussion)

We will meet in the Library Digital Lab to start class this week.  
Be sure to bring your flip camera with footage -- including at least one 30-45 second clip of you speaking directly to the camera.   

Session 3 Agenda

I.  Responding to Literature Publically:   Using carlyreads as a site to entire the local community's conversation about texts.

·      What are the features of Carly's blog you most appreciate as a Literacy Specialist? What are the features of Carly's blog you most appreciated as a reader?

·      Meet Carly:  Carly will share more with you about what you will need in order to publish your Guest Blogger response.   

·      Confirm assigned readings/deadlines for the Guest Blog assignment.    

II.  Becoming a Community Responding to Literature:  What are the different ways we can respond to literature?  How are adolescents responding to literature today?

Human beings don't need to possess information only; they need to belong to a community.  

(Grisham & Wolsey, 2006, p. 648)

My Learning Goals for the 629 Blog Assignments (taken from Sherry, 2000; Grisham & Wolsey):

1.    [I] want to build group coherence among students.

2.    [I] want to share information about the readings with students and have them share information with one other.

3.    [I] want students to process ideas about the reading.  ***

4.    [I] want students not only to share their responses through threaded discussions about the readings but also through other digitial texts (i.e., iMovie).

5.    [I] want to us to build a social environment "created in the electronic learning space...[where] students find a voice, develop perspectives, make meaningful predictions, connect the literature with other media and enable the motivation to read as only peers can."  (Grisham & Wolsey, p. 654).  

                   

QUESTION FOR DISCUSSION:   Will the Class Blog page structure work to meet these goals?   

We will use Think/Pair/Share to reach a common understanding of the best ways to meet these goals.

III.   Developing Our Own READING PRACTICES:  Understanding INTERTEXTUALITY and how it influences our reading comprehension


Revisiting Moon's discussion of Intertexuality and versions of Little Red Riding Hood

IV.  Reading Workshop

Acceptable selections for tonight's Reading Workshop:

·      Continue reading or REreading your TBF selection for your Guest Blog Post;

·      Reading the web, looking for Digital Stories (book trailers) for books that are coming up in the following weeks.  

More on Little Red Riding Hood

Here is a link to a extended excerpt from Angela Carter's The Company of Wolves:


http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/harris/StudentProjects/Student_FairyTales/WebProject/Fairy%20Tales/Company%20of%20Wolves.htm


This may help you answer the questions Moon asks on page 94 comparing Carter's version to the original tale.