A.4 Independent Reading
Responses -- Response/reviews to a minimum of three YA books and for two
electronic resources for teaching YA literature (films, software, and/or websites) you
will post to our class website (Book Web
-- see sample of last semester's). These books/resources can certainly be those you
may use in developing your class project (see below).
A.5 Collaborative Reading
Experiences -- Online chats with your book club in which you discuss a
minimum of three books and develop for each a response/review that you will post on our
Book Web. You will also post the "chat" as a link to your Book Web
response/review. These experiences will be completed totally online from your choice
of physical location.
A.5 Young Adult Book
Proposal -- Creation an idea for a young adult book you would like to
write. Write a query letter (purpose to encapsulate your idea and sell it) and a
first chapter. We will work with our writing groups for this activity.
B.
Young Adult Literature Project
B.1 Propose a Young Adult Literature Project.
Possibilities are not limited to but certainly include developing an interdisciplinary and
technology-enhanced project to teach a young adult literary text using the Literacy
Junction model (http://www.ncsu.edu/literacyjunction);
working with an afterschool Read & Talk Group and studying the results; or
proposing your own variation of a project that best fits your teaching context.
B.2 Develop and implement (some component of) your
Young Adult Literature Project and evaluate the results. Reflect on what you learned about
your teaching, your students, and yourself. Include representative samples of student
work.
B.3 Make an interactive presentation in which you
engage our class in some aspect of your Young Adult Literature Project and then relate
your experience with students. This presentation will actually consist of three
informal mini-presentations that you will make throughout the semester -- the first,
proposing your project; the second, describing its development and initiation; and, the
third, engaging our class in some aspect of your project's activities and reflecting on
its implementation and lessons learned.
The above requirements can only be met through
consistent class attendance and thorough preparation for each class and assignment.
Please see Academic Regulations at http://www.ncsu.edu/provost/academic_regulations/attend/reg.htm
for types of situations that may constitute legitimate conflicts. If such a conflict
arises then please let me know ahead of time if at all possible. I can then plan to work
with you to help you catch up and make up missed work. It is required that you make
up all inclass work that you miss within a week of the missed class.
Evaluation/Grading
Grading will be based on the evidence that you submit
documenting your attainment of the course objectives. You will file all of your work in a
portfolio online. From this portfolio you will select evidence to document your attainment
of the course objectives. This evidence will be organized in a Portfolio Report Online
(PRO) which will be reviewed at midterm and at the end of the course. For each of these
two reviews you will write a summary interpreting the progress you have made toward the
course objectives. The standards (expressed in rubrics) used to evaluate this evidence we
will determine in class prior to the assignment of each requirement. The expectation is
that all work will be revised until it reaches the agreed upon standards. We will work
together to develop the standards for this scale. Students documenting that they have met
the standards on all assignments will earn a grade of "A."
Academic Integrity: You are responsible for
becoming familiar with the polcy on academic integrity found in Part 1 of the NCSU Code of
Student Conduct and Regulations. Your name on any work submitted for evaluation in
this course implies that you have engaged in honorable and trustworthy behavior.
NCSU Code, 7.3 is vital for our course: "The free
exchange of ideas also depends on the participants' trust that others' work is their own
and that it was done and is being reported honestly. Intellectual progress in all the
disciplines demands the truthfulness of all participants."
For more information, see NCSU Code of Student Conduct
at http://www.fis.ncsu.edu/ncsulegal/41.03-codeof.htm
Class Resources
A. Required Texts -- All of
these books are available at Quail Ridge Books located in North Ridge Shopping Center (on
Wade Avenue). Do remember to ask for your 10% teachers' discount! Or you may
prefer to order online. Llinks are provided so you can get preview the book if you would
like). You may also find many of these books in your school or public library.
Anderson, L. H. Speak.
Curtis, C. P. (1998). Bud, not
Buddy.
Philbrick, R. (2000). The
last book in the universe.
Myers, W. D. and C. Myers (Illustrator) (2000). Monster.
Wilhelm, J. D. (1996). You
gotta be the book: Teaching engaged and reflective reading with adolescents.
B. Additional Texts
