English 112B: Young Adult Literature Course Spring 2003
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• FINAL EXAMINATION
• Course Syllabus for Spring 2003
• Revised Schedule for the rest of semester
• Lovely Bones
• Short Stories to be read and responded to by April 14 on the discussion board.
  • John Kenny Crane, "The Day the Fifties Became the Sixties"
  • "Arturo's Flight"-- a short story from Island Like You by Judith Cofer
  • On the Sidewalk Bleeding"

  • Midterm Research Paper: 15% of total course grade
    • List of works cited example
    • small representative sampling of Annotations

• from Glossary of Literary Term: what is an Image?
• definition of an image--a vital part of an explication de texte

• Definitions of Literary Terms
• Understanding Children and Young Adults: Developmental theories, with some suggestions about books.
• "Metaphors We Live By" by Lakoff and Johnson

• Reading Responses: how to write them and many good student examples
• Lots of Study Questions to Other YA and Children's Books

• How to Read a Book: instructions on how to read, how to mark a text, condensed from Mortimer Adler

  Bloom's Taxonomy

  • Major Categories in Bloom's Taxonomy
  • Bloom's Taxonomy used for Book Review Questions
  • Learning Skills, Questioning techniques according to Bloom's Taxonomy
  • Havighurst's Developmental Tasks for Young Adults, plus Patten's 7 Ps
• For the Busy Teacher: Quick Peeks at Young Adult Books

Course Reading Material for Spring 2003

A short story to be discussed the first day of class:"Flowers" by Alice Walker

Catcher in the Rye

• Catcher in the Rye--a summary of important issues--see also YA Lit
  • Catcher in the Rye --study questions
  • Melody for "Comin' thro the Rye"
    • Critical analysis of song
  • Spark Notes on Catcher: excellent comments
  • Glossary for Burns's works
  • High Schooler's essay on Catcher
  • Richard Cartoni's RR to Catcher in the Rye
  • Grant Maher's RR to Catcher in the Rye
  • Allison Moss-Fritch's RR
  • Patricia Erisson Johnson's RR
  • A sample theme from Writing Themes about Literature on Catcher in the Rye
• J. D. Salinger Link
  • J. D. Salinger home page
  • Catcher in the Rye page
  • Praises and Criticism for Catcher
  • a Photographic album to enhance Catcher
  • Censorship of a new sort: Salinger and the Web
  • The Praises and Criticisms of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
  • Lesson Plans, Anticipation Guide, and many helpful hints for reading the book
• Review of Real Boys by Jay M. Dunlap--information that relates to our study of Holden

Seedfolks

• Seedfolks Study Questions
• A Critical guide with lesson plans
• Fleischman: an in-depth conversation
  • Lesson ONE
  • Handout example for diary
  • Map for Seedfolks--handout
• Seedfolks--sample questions according to Bloom's Taxonomy
• Webquest for Seedfolks

Holes

• Study Questions for Holes
• Brief Biography of Louis Sachar
• the Absurd in connection with Sisyphus--consider in connection with Stanley Yelnats.
• A complete and thorough discussion of Post-Structuralism
• A brief quotation from Alice in Wonderland
• the Absurd in connection with Sisyphus--consider in connection with Stanley Yelnats.
• Deconstruction--by Jack Lynch
• A complete and thorough discussion of Post-Structuralism

Briar Rose

• Briar Rose study questions
• Holocaust Resources for discussion of Briar Rose
• Political Manipulations of the Sleeping BeautyFairy Tale
• Numerous Variants of the Sleeping Beauty Fairy Tale
• Teen Books about the Holocaust
• Japanese Internment in the US
• Amazon's list of Teen books about the Holocaust
• YA Books about the Japanese Internment in the US
• Close Reading of No Pretty Pictures

Under the Feet of Jesus

• Viramontes, An annotation of Under the Feet of Jesus
• See Other Books under this category
• Under the Feet of Jesus Study Questions
• Finding the Metaphorical Key to Under the Feet of Jesus

Lovely Bones

• Lovely Bones: Reading Guide

Make Lemonade

• Study questions for Make Lemonade

Out of the Dust

• Out of the Dust Study Questions

Monster

Life of Myers

Articles

• An essay about "Science Fiction as a Genre in Adolescent Literature" by Ken Keesee
• Melanie Klein: some basic differences from Freud, insights in the female psyche
• New article from December issue of Discover Magazine regarding the concept of time. This article may revolutionize the way we think out ourselves, the past, present, and future.
• "Hiding it from the Kids": Gerald Graff and Andrew Hoberek, College English November 1999
• Article about Film and the young adult novel
• article about a current YA controversy
• Illusion and Reality: excerpts from Virgina Hamilton's Newbery Acceptance speech--for better understanding of African American Young Adult literature
• A graduate course syllabus in Children's literature with critical readings
• Readings about Young Adult Literature from Kay Vandergrift's Rutgers University' web site
• article about challenging the canon
• a controversy about literature that concerns all English studies, Literature Lost: a review by Frank Kermode on Professor John Ellis's controversial book.

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Miscellaneous

• Lesson Plans--how to do
• Comprehension Activities/Questions
• Using the computer for literary analysis: from John Harris
• Characteristics of a literary essay
• Study Questions for other books previously taught in both 112A and 112B
• Top Ten list of books for YAs, plus a list of 100 more very successful ones
• A summary of the short story A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch

Short Stories and Poetry

• "Arturo's Flight"-- an inner-city ethnic short story from Island Like You by Judith Cofer
• "On the Sidewalk Bleeding" by Evan Hunter (a powerful short story that works well as an "into" for The Outsiders and Romeo and Juliet
• The Day the Fifties Became the Sixties" by John Kenny Crane
• Excerpts from House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
• Young Adult Poetry: an excellent list of anthologies for poetry meant for Young Adults
• YA poems--a few multicultural ones
• A good listing of anthologies of poetry for YAs
• A listing of available short stories on the web

• Check out this page for proper format regarding papers
• Having trouble writing a good thesis statement?
• Common Grammatical Errors to Avoid