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Catherine Barrack

Top 100 Teen Novels - 0 views

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    Favorites: 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels
Catherine Barrack

TED talks: Lisa Bu: How books can open your mind - 0 views

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    Video TED talk from Lisa Bu  -"second-class happiness" -learning from literature -reading books in pairs
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    Video TED talk from Lisa Bu  -"second-class happiness" -learning from literature -reading books in pairs
Catherine Barrack

The 8 Habits of Highly Successful Young-Adult Fiction Authors - Nolan Feeney - The Atla... - 0 views

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    How to Write Successful YA Literature -Think Like A Teen -Find the "Emotional Truth" of the Teenage Experience -Good Pop-Culture References -Input from Real Teens -Beware of Slang -Keep It Moving -Its OK to get Dark -Find the "Kernel of Hope"
Catherine Barrack

vlogbrothers - YouTube - 0 views

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    VlogBrothers is a video blog style channel on YouTube hosted by brothers, John Green and Hank Green. John Green is a popular YA Lit author (Looking for Alaska, The Fault in our Stars)
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    VlogBrothers is a video blog style channel on YouTube hosted by brothers, John Green and Hank Green. John Green is a popular YA Lit author (Looking for Alaska, The Fault in our Stars)
Catherine Barrack

Young Adult Lit in the 21st Century - 0 views

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    Article on Moving Beyond Constraints and Literary Conventions - How Young Adult Literature fits the 21st Century teen experience
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    Article on Moving Beyond Constraints and Literary Conventions - How Young Adult Literature fits the 21st Century teen experience
Catherine Barrack

Defining the YA Literature - 0 views

  • classics they could adopt into the Y.A. family. J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia, Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, and William Golding’s Lord of the Flies are just a sampling
  • The look and age of the characters—from the lightning bolt on Harry Potter’s forehead (J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series) to the shaved head of Egg (Cecil Castelluci’s Boy Proof) The location of the stories—from a 1452 AD copy shop in Mainz, Germany (Matthew Skelton’s Endymion Spring) to the exotic tarpits (Margo Lanagan’s Black Juice) The action and plotting—vivid, fast-paced scenes and action The core conflicts—blackmail (Markus Zusak’s I Am the Messenger), date rape (Chris Lynch’s Inexcusable), telekinesis (Stephen King’s ,Carrie), performance enhancing drugs (Robert Lipsyte’s Raiders Night), and poverty (Markus Zusak’s Fighting Ruben Wolfe) Tone, voice, and point of view The linguistic and structural tricks the writers employ The characteristics that define what many are calling a “genre”
  • Christopher Paul Curtis said, “if the novel lets one child see that there is a real potential for beauty and fun and emotion in a book, I’m not greedy, I’ll happily take that”
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  • The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Knopf, 2006) Narrated by Death and set in a small town outside Munich during World War II, this is the story of nine-year- old Liesel Meminger, a German girl taken into Hans Huberman’s household as a foster child. As likeable as she is well-developed, it is amazing to watch a young girl remain so strong in the face of human tragedy, impossible hatred, and adolescent love. This story pays tribute to the simple power of words, to their ability to change our minds, destroy our lives, move our souls, recount our memories, and yes, heal our world. When Death starts telling stories, teens are likely to listen. When the story is about a nine-year-old girl in World War II Germany, teens might stop. Death often interrupts the narrative to insert his own factoids and commentary, the last of which will chill readers to the bone. The center pages of the book feature an illustrated booklet designed over the torn-out pages of a copy of Mein Kampf. The frequent fragmented sentences give the language a structure geared for teens that conveys a much older voice, something Death cannot help but bring to his story about this pre-adolescent girl. First published in Australia as a Grownup novel, The Book Thief does not embody very many Young Adult elements, which does not mean that it is not a powerfully-crafted novel. It only means that Liesel is perhaps too young, the narrative too grand, and the voice too somber to fit with the rest of the expanding genre.
  • 2. A Distinctly Teen Voice
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    "What exactly makes Young Adult any different from Grownup or Children's literature?" and "What does it mean for a book to be Young Adult?"
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    "What exactly makes Young Adult any different from Grownup or Children's literature?" and "What does it mean for a book to be Young Adult?"
Catherine Barrack

Why YA in the Classroom | The Hub - 0 views

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    "Last month a teacher in South Carolina was suspended for reading aloud a passage from Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game, a YA science fiction book considered by many a classic "
Catherine Barrack

Young Adult Literature in the English Curriculum - 0 views

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    "Many English teachers believe that YAL offers a sophisticated reading option for addressing standards, designing relevant curricula, and engaging twenty-first century young adults in rich discussions of literature and life."
Catherine Barrack

An Introduction to Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction - 0 views

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    A collection of YA Literature definitions from various professional sources.
Lia Strong

They Loved Your G.P.A. Then They Saw Your Tweets. - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    How admissions people are looking past GPA's and onto personal lives of prospective students. 
Jessica Hill

http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/download/nwp_file/12466/Teaching_New_Writing_Chapter1.pdf?... - 0 views

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    evolving technology and assessment in the classroom
Jessica Hill

Writing Roadmap Assessment - CTB/McGraw-Hill - 0 views

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    description of the "Writing Roadmap" program in which students write essays online and the program "grades" their writing
Jessica Hill

How Intelligent Scoring Will Help Create an Intelligent System - Getting Smart by Tom V... - 0 views

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    article weighing the pro's and con's (but mostly pro's) of online writing assessment. Speaks in particular about standardized testing and how these sites prepare students. 
Jessica Hill

Righting the Writing Process | District Administration Magazine - 0 views

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    Article talks about online writing assessment. Of particular note is success found with ELL writers and their improvements in writing as a result.
Jessica Hill

pearsonschool.com: WriteToLearn: An Online Reading & Writing Automated Assessment - 0 views

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    how to page of another online writing assessment tool, "writetolearn"
Jessica Hill

Q&A: WriteToLearn Enriches Students' Understanding of Writing - Getting Smart by Gettin... - 0 views

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    Q&A about "writetolearn" writing assessment tool
Jessica Hill

CCCC Position Statement on Teaching, Learning, and Assessing Writing in Digital Environ... - 0 views

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    NCTE's take on online writing programs. Their stance is that they oppose them.
Jessica Hill

The Surprising Truth About Writing Auto-Graders -- THE Journal - 0 views

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    This journal article talks about how auto graders grade similarly to human graders as well as eliminate the teachers need to teach the errors. Is that really a good thing?
Jessica Speasr

Should You Listen to Music While Studying? - University of Phoenix - 1 views

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    Article on study done in University of Phoenix as to if music hinders studying or aids. 
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