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.

Session 3 Readings and Other Assignments

Required Readings/Other Assignments
[TBF] = Read at least two books written by Teen Book Festival authors
[J] = Knickerbocker & Rycik
[J] = Lenters
[L] = Terms:  Text, Intertextuality, Genre, Literature
[O] = http://carlyreads.blogspot.com
[O] = Post at least two responses to the readings (primarily focused on the selected TBF literature)


UPDATE (Saturday 9:51am):   Be sure to notice, since I've been talking about A.S.King's new book Please Ignore Vera Dietz.   I found the book trailer on CARLYREADS.blogspot.com    I also added it our growing list of book trailers ( found on right of page).

IMPORTANT TBF UPDATE (Saturday 3:10pm):   Bad news readers!  Just got an email from TBF Founder (Stephanie Squicciarini) that Melissa Walker will NOT be able to make it to TBF this year.   If you had selected her works as one of your readings for this week, please feel free to continue to read her selections.  Unfortunately though, you won't be able to meet her in 2011.  We are hopeful though she will come to 2012......

Session 2 Agenda

COMMUNITY IS THE SOUL OF LEARNING (Grisham & Wolsey, 2006, p. 648)
 Oh my! Do we have much to accomplish TOGETHER tonight!   Let's dive right in!

Required Readings/Other Assignments
[YA] = Read at least two books from the selected list for Session 2
[J] = Ali
[J] = Grisham & Wolsey
[L] = Terms:  Author, Reading Practices, Readings
[O] = Post at least two responses to the readings (primarily focused on the selected YA literature)
(7:00-8:30pm)
I.  Responding to Literature:   What are all the reading practices we use when reading?  What are the different ways we can respond to literature?  


What about the characters in the YA texts you read for class tonight?

• What did these books--these characters--make you feel?  
•  Why?  What is in the text that influenced you?  What elements from your own personal experiences influenced your emotional responses? 
• What reading practices influenced you?   
• What does the literary term "character" mean to you now? 

What did you share in your blog about your personal responses to these characters in the YA texts you read for class tonight?

•  Using Ali's reader response criteria to evaluate our blog posts (Ali, p. 290).
•  What do you need to compose mature reader-responses (Ali, 1994; Rosenblatt, 1938):  determining criteria for our personal blog posts, public blog posts, other class e-discussions. 
•   Discuss TBF "Guest Blog" assignment (Carly's visit next week.)   

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)

Reviewing Grisham & Wolsey:  Using technology as a means to foster choice, power and belonging.


Several goals (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 presdictions, connect the literature with other media and estable the motivation to read as only peers can."  (Grisham & Wolsey, p. 654).  

BREAK (8:30-9:20pm)  

III.   Developing our own digital reader response practices using iMovie. 

•   Learning how to use Flip Cameras
•  Conduct initial interview

(9:20-9:40pm)

IV.  Reading Workshop

     Spend time independently reading to preview the TBF/YA reading selections for Session 3

Getting Ready For Tonight's Class

Hi 629 Readers!  

I was looking over your blogs this morning, I am already seeing some great responses to literature.   

We will talk in more detail tonight about what each post should include, but I just wanted to say how impressed I am with your initial posts.

Dr. Jones  

Hello YA Readers!

Hope your entry into the world of YA Literature has been enjoyable thus far!  

As you are reading your self selected YA works for this week, be sure to keep in mind what Moon (1999) says about characters as you read:

Characters are imaginary identities constructed through reports of appearance, action, speech, thought, and so on.  Traditional reading practices assemble these reports to produce a "person."  Modern practices explore characters as representing a set of beliefs and values.  We can think therefore of character as an element of narrative "code."

Interesting Videos of Week Two YA Readings

Monster:  Book Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzjmatAjMwA&feature=related

Interview with Suzanne Collins
Interview 1:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDNJd192Tcw

Welcome to LTED 629!

Hello Young Adult Readers!  


I hope for this website to become our class "homepage" and that we use this as our central location to connect to each other's blogs, to link to other authors' home pages as well as to use as we see most useful to our collective learning process over the semester.


Each of you will create your own personal blog that you will use primarily to record your reflections and responses to the course readings and other young adult literature.   At times you will respond to your classmates entries along with continuing your own reflective posts.   


Looking forward to a semester full of learning about ourselves and our world through literature.


Dr. Jones