ENGL 4077/5077

ENGL 4077/5077

Adolescent Lit

TRs 11:15AM-12:35PM

203 Burleson Hall

Instr: Dr. Phyllis Thompson

Office: 213 Burleson Hall

Hours: TRs 9:45-11:15, 3:30-4:30; Fs 11:00-12:00; and by appointment

Email: thompsop@etsu.edu

Phone: 423.439.5997

SCHEDULE

TOPIC FOR DISCUSSION

REMINDERS

Aug 26

Tuesday

Introductions & Literacy Autobiographies

Lit Autobiographies

Reflection Card 1

Introductions: Students/Course

Write & Share: Literacy Autobiographies

Howard, Jennifer. “Americans are Closing the Book on Reading.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. (November 30, 2007)

54.14: A12. http://chronicle.com/cgi-bin/printable.cgi?article=http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i14/14a01201.htm

National Endowment for the Arts. To Read or Not to Read: A Question of National Consequence. Research Report

#47. Washington, D.C.: Office of Research and Analysis, 2007. http://www.nea.gov/research/ToRead.PDF

Aug 28

Thursday

Who's a Young Adult? and What's YA Lit?

Defining YA Literature

Sign-up for TD and DS

UYAL, chp 1

YAs and YA Lit

Sept 2

Tuesday

The Bildungsroman

Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus: A Novel

Link to Chimamanda Adichie interview: http://bookcriticscircle.blogs.com/2007/02/talking-with-chimamanda-adichie.html

Scholarly Articles:

Hron, Madelaine. Ora na-azu nwa: The Figure of the Child in Third-Generation Nigerian Novels.”

Research in African Literatures 39.2 (Summer 2008): 27-48.

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/research_in_african_literatures/v039/39.2.hron.pdf

Oha, Anthony C. “Beyond the Odds of the Red Hibiscus: A Critical Reading of Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus.” The

Journal of Pan African Studies 1.9 (August 2007):199-211.

http://www.jpanafrican.com/docs/vol1no9/BeyondtheOddsoftheRedHibiscus.pdf

Discussion Starter 1: _________________________________________________________________________________

Sept 4

Thursday

The Bildungsroman

Reflection Card 2

Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus: A Novel

UYAL, chp 2

Link to Chimamanda Adichie interview: http://bookcriticscircle.blogs.com/2007/02/talking-with-chimamanda-adichie.html

Scholarly Articles:

Donovan, Ellen Butler. “Disorienting Reading.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly. (2007): 29-46.

Hale, Lisa A., and Chris Crowe. "I Hate Reading If I Don't Have To": Results from a Longitudinal Study of High

School Students' Reading Interest." The ALAN Review 28.3 Spring/Summer (2001).

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/v28n3/hale.html

Salvner, Gary. "Lessons & Lives: Why YA Lit Matters." The ALAN Review 28.3 (Spring 2001): 9.

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/v28n3/salvner.html

Discussion Starter 2: _________________________________________________________________________________

Sept 9

Tuesday

Historical Fiction

Crowe's Mississippi Trial, 1955

Crowe’s Getting Away with Murder (opt)

Nelson’s A Wreath for Emmett Till (opt)

Link to Chris Crowe’s website http://www.chriscrowe.com/books/trial.html

Scholarly Articles:

Brown, Joanne. "Historical Fiction or Fictionalized History? Problems for Writers of Historical Novels for Young

Adults." The ALAN Review 26.1 Fall (1998). http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/fall98

Hobbs, Renee. "Classroom Strategies for Exploring Realism and Authenticity in Media Messages." Reading

Online. 4.9 April 2001. http://www.readingonline.org/newliteracies/lit_index.asp?HREF=/newliteracies/hobbs/index.html

Discussion Starter: _________________________________________________________________________________

Sept 11

Thursday

Historical Fiction

Reflection Card 3

Crowe's Mississippi Trial, 1955

Crowe’s Getting Away with Murder (opt)

Nelson’s A Wreath for Emmett Till (opt)

UYAL, chp 3 and 115-116, 120-124

Link to Chris Crowe’s website http://www.chriscrowe.com/books/trial.html

Scholarly Articles:

Hannener, Rhonda, and Douglas Kellner. "Multimedia Pedagogy and Multicultural Education for the New

Millennium." Reading Online. 4.10 (May 2001)

http://www.readingonline.org/newliteracies/lit_index.asp?HREF=/newliteracies/hammer/index.html

Willis, Arlette Ingram, and Julia L. Johnson. “A horizon of possibilities”: A critical framework for transforming

multiethnic literature instruction.” Reading Online 4.3 (September 2000)

http://www.readingonline.org/articles/art_index.asp?HREF=/articles/willis/index.html

Discussion Starter: _________________________________________________________________________________

Sept 16

Tuesday

Sci Fi & Fantasy

Lit Circles—Group Work

Draft: Bibliographic Annotation due

Farmer's House of the Scorpion

Link to Nancy Farmer HS blog: http://www.nassaulibrary.org/YABookLog/2006/08/the_house_of_th.html

Scholarly Articles:

Bucher, Katherine T., and M. Lee Manning. “ Taming the Alien Genre: Bringing Science Fiction into the Classroom.” The

ALAN Review (Winter 2001)28.2: 41-45. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/v28n2/bucher.html

Williams, Bronwyn T. "’A Puzzle to the Rest of Us:’ Who is a 'reader' anyway?" Journal of Adolescent & Adult

Literacy. 47.8 (May 2004)

http://www.readingonline.org/newliteracies/lit_index.asp?HREF=/newliteracies/jaal/5-04_column_lit/index.html

Discussion Starter: _________________________________________________________________________________

Sept 18

Thursday

Sci Fi & Fantasy

Lit Circles—Presentations

Reflection Card 4

Farmer's House of the Scorpion

Link to Nancy Farmer HS blog: http://www.nassaulibrary.org/YABookLog/2006/08/the_house_of_th.html

UYAL, chp 4

Annotation Workshop

Sept 23

Tuesday

The Problem Novel

Anderson's Speak

Link: Laurie Halse Anderson's web site

Scholarly Articles:

LeMieux, A.C. "The Problem Novel in a Conservative Age." The ALAN Review 25.3 Spring (1998).

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/spring98/lemieux.html

O’Quinn, Elaine. “Between Voice and Voicelessness: Transacting Silence in Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak.” The ALAN

Review 29.1 (Fall 2001) 54-58. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/fall01

Discussion Starter: _____________________________________________________________________________________

Sept 25

Thursday

The Problem Novel and Film

Film Adaptation Exercise, Part I

Reflection Card 5

Anderson's Speak and Film Adaptation

UYAL, chp 6

Link: Laurie Halse Anderson's web site

Scholarly Articles:

Reid, Suzanne, and Sharon Stringer. "Ethical Dilemmas in Teaching Problem Novels: The Psychological Impact of

Troubling Adolescent Literature on Adolescent Readers in the Classroom." The ALAN Review Winter (1997): 24.2.

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/winter97

Sprague, Marsha, et al. “Today I’m going to meet a boy”: Teachers and Students Respond to Fifteen and Speak.”

The ALAN Review 33.1 Fall (2006). http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/fall06

Discussion Starter: _________________________________________________________________________________

Sept 30

Tuesday

The Problem Novel and Practice

Anderson's Speak and Self Defense

Link: Laurie Halse Anderson's web site

Oct 2

Thursday

The Problem Novel and Potential Transformation

Mid-Term Project due

Reflection Card 6

Anderson's Speak

Lorde’s Sister Outsider

Introduction to Graphic Novels

Oct 7

Tuesday

Beyond Our Borders: Teaching Multicultural Lit

Satrapi’s Persepolis: The Story of Childhood

Link to Satrapi Interview: http://www.powells.com/authors/satrapi.html or http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/fourth_genre_explorations_in_nonfiction/v009/9.2root.pdf

Scholarly Articles:

Davis, Rocio G. “A Graphic Self: Comics as Autobiography in Marjore Satrapi’s Persepolis.” Prose Studies: History, Theory,

Criticism. 27.3 (December 2005): 264-79. (Excellent choice, but check online for this article.)

Goodwin, Jan. “Muslims, The First Feminists.” Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the

Islamic World. Boston: Little Brown, 1994. 29-47. (Excellent choice, but check availability at Sherrod.)

Mernissi, Fatima. Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society. Bloomington: Indiana UP,

1987. vii-xxx, 7-24. (Excellent choice, but check online to make sure this book is available at Sherrod Library.)

Naghibi, Nima, and Andrew O’Malley. “Estranging the Familiar: ‘East’ and ‘West’ in Satrapi’s Persepolis.” English Studies in

Canada (June-September 2005) 31.2-3:: 223-247. (Excellent choice, but check online for this article.)

Discussion Starter: _________________________________________________________________________________

Oct 9

Thursday

Beyond Our Borders: Teaching Multicultural Lit

Reflection Card 7

Satrapi’s Persepolis: The Story of Childhood

UYAL, chp 8

Link to Satrapi Interview: http://www.powells.com/authors/satrapi.html or http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/fourth_genre_explorations_in_nonfiction/v009/9.2root.pdf

Scholarly Articles:

Ericson, Bonnie O. "At Home with Multicultural Adolescent Literature." The ALAN Review 23.1 Fall (1995).

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/fall95/Ericson.html

Leftwich, Stacey. "Learning to Use Diverse Children's Literature in the Classroom: A Model for Preservice Teacher

Education." Reading Online. September 2002: 6.2. http://www.readingonline.org/newliteracies/lit_index.asp?HREF=leftwich/index.html

Wallace, Deborah A. "Teaching Multiculturalism: Focus on People." Reading Online. July 1998.

http://www.readingonline.org/articles/art_index.asp?HREF=multi/index.html

Worth, “Unveiling Persepolis As Embodied Performance.” Theatre Research International. 32.2 (July 2007): 143-160.

Discussion Starter: _________________________________________________________________________________

Oct 14

Tuesday

FALL BREAK

FALL BREAK

Oct 16

Thursday

Exploring Format: Graphic Novels, SuperHeroes, & Action Figures

Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

Link to Frank Miller: http://www.moebiusgraphics.com/miller.php

Link to NPR interview with Frank Miller: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=841850#share

Scholarly Articles:

Fletcher-Spear, Kristin, et al. “The Truth about Graphic Novels: A Format, Not a Genre.” The ALAN Review 32.2

Winter (2005): 37-44. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/winter05

Shanower, Eric. “The Art of the Graphic Novel.” The ALAN Review 32.2 Winter (2005): 32-36.

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/winter05

Discussion Starter: _________________________________________________________________________________

Oct 21

Tuesday

Exploring Graphic Novels and Film Adaptations

Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

Link to trailer: http://thedarkknight.warnerbros.com/

Scholarly Articles:

Schwartz, Gretchen. “Graphic Books for Diverse Needs: Engaging Reluctant and Curious Readers.” The ALAN Review (Fall

2002). http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4063/is_200210/ai_n9098438/pg_1?tag=artBody;col1

Williams, Bronwyn T. "Boys May Be Boys, But Do They Have to Read and Write That Way." Journal of Adolescent & Adult

Literacy March 2004: 47.6.

http://www.readingonline.org/newliteracies/lit_index.asp?HREF=/newliteracies/jaal/3-04_column/index.html

Discussion Starter: _________________________________________________________________________________

Teaching Demonstration: ______________________________________________________________________________

Oct 23

Thursday

Exploring Graphic Novels and the Classics

Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

UYAL. Chp 7

Scholarly Articles:

Daniels, Cindy Lou. “Literary Theory and Young Adult Literature: The Open Frontier in Critical Studies.” The ALAN

Review 32.2 Winter (2006). http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/winter06

Schwartz, Gretchen. “Graphic Books for Diverse Needs: Engaging Reluctant and Curious Readers.” The ALAN Review (Fall

2002). http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4063/is_200210/ai_n9098438/pg_1?tag=artBody;col1

Discussion Starter: _________________________________________________________________________________

Teaching Demonstration: ______________________________________________________________________________

Oct 28

Tuesday

Workshop: Rationale, Lesson Plan, Handout, Assessment & Associated Rubric

Draft of semester project is due

(see handout for specific details)

Workshop

UYAL. Chp 9

Oct 30

Thursday

Project Q&A/TD

Teaching Demonstration: ______________________________________________________________________________

Nov 4

Tuesday

Sex, GBLTQ, and Difference

Sanchez’ Rainbow Boys

Link to Interview with Alex Sanchez: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4063/is_200210/ai_n9098446

Scholarly Article (See also Nov 6 and Nov 11 selections):

Bott, C.J. “Why We Must Read Young Adult Books that Deal with Sexual Content.” The ALAN Review 33.3

Summer (2006). http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/summer06

Discussion Starter: _________________________________________________________________________________

Nov 6

Thursday

Sex, GBLTQ, and Difference

Sanchez’ Rainbow Boys

Link to Interview with Alex Sanchez: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4063/is_200210/ai_n9098446

Scholarly Article (See also Nov 4 and Nov 11selections):

Cart, Michael. “What a Wonderful World: Notes on the Evolution of GLBTQ Literature for Young Adults.” The ALAN

Review 31.2 Winter (2004). 46-52.

Discussion Starter: _________________________________________________________________________________

Teaching Demonstration: ______________________________________________________________________________

Nov 11

Tuesday

Censorship

See page 6 for continuation of Nov 11

UYAL, chp 10

NCTE Guidelines for Dealing with Censorship: http://www.ncte.org/about/over/positions/category/cens/107611.htm

NCTE Statement on Censorship: http://www.ncte.org/about/over/positions/category/cens/107613.htm

Scholarly Article (See also Nov 4 and Nov 6 selections):

Xu, Shelley Hong. "Exploring Diversity Issues in Teacher Education." Reading Online. 5.1.

www.readingonline.org/newliteracies/lit_index.asp?HREF=action/xu/index.html

Discussion Starter: _________________________________________________________________________________

Teaching Demonstration: _____________________________________________________________________________

Nov 13

Thursday

Identity and Difference

Spinelli’s Stargirl

Link to Jerry Spinelli’s Website http://www.jerryspinelli.com/newbery_001.htm

Link to Jerry Spinelli YouTube Interview: Writing for Adults or Children: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPBUS9J8A6Q

Teaching Demonstration: _____________________________________________________________________________

Nov 18

Tuesday

Identity and Difference

Spinelli’s Stargirl

UYAL. Chp 11

Teaching Demonstration: _____________________________________________________________________________

Nov 20

Thursday

Bringing Poems and Poetry into your Classroom

Bring in a “found” poem

Janeczko’s Seeing the Blue Between: Advice & Inspiration for Young Poets, Fleishchman’s Big Talk: Poems for Four Voices (opt), Fletcher’s Poetry Matters: Writing Poetry from the Inside Out, Find a poem! Write a poem!

Link to Paul Fleischman’s pages: http://www.paulfleischman.net

Scholarly Articles:

Kaywell, Joan. "Using Young Adult Fiction and NonFiction to Produce Critical Readers." The ALAN Review 21.2

Winter (1994). http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/winter94/Kaywell.html

Lipsett, Laura. "No Need to 'Duck, Run and Hide:' YA Poetry that Taps into You." The ALAN Review 28.3 Spring

(2001). http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/spring01

Nov 25

Tuesday

Bringing Poems and Poetry into your Classroom

Semester Projects due

Poe’s “The Raven” (online copy of poem)

Nov 27

Thursday

Thanksgiving Holiday

No classes

Thanksgiving Holiday

Dec 2

Tuesday

Teaching Demonstration: _____________________________________________________________________________

Dec 4

Thursday

Teaching Demonstration: _____________________________________________________________________________

Exam Week

A Zydeco Capstone:

Sharing Field Guides and Wrapping Up

Reflection—Capstone