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Author Talks:
If you brought visual aids or plan to use a
web site, go ahead and copy the file(s) to
the “Documents” folder and/or load the
web page (new tab for each page).
The goal of the "author study" is to introduce the
class to a particular author: his or her books, web
presence (to include website, blog, various social
media, etc), and the kind of books we might expect
from this author in the future.
Your presentation should include…
• biographical information about your author
• list of the author's YA books
• the author's online presence
• at least two book talks
Basically, your presentation should allow
us to introduce the author to students.
Marketing YA Lit: Changing with the Times
What is our responsibility
with respect to what students read
from the class or school library?
How to we choose
which books to TEACH
to the whole class or to small groups?
Reality check: works you might be told to use…
FDHS, 9th grade
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Card:
Ender’s Game
Dickens:
Great Expectations
Dramer:
Romiette and Julio
Finn:
Breaking Point
Gibson:
The Miracle Worker
Grimes:
Bronx Masquerade
Hamilton:
Mythology
Hickam:
October Sky
Homer:
The Odyssey
Lee:
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lipsyte:
The Contender
Philbrick
Last Book in the Universe
Shakespear
Romeo and Juliet
Spinelli:
Stargirl
Steinbeck
The Pearl
Townsend:
Secret Diary of Adrian Mole
FDHS, 10th grade
- Anaya:
Bless Me Ultima
- Bradbury:
Fahrenheit 451
- DuBois:
The Souls of Black Folk
- Frank:
Alas Babylon
- Gaines: Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
- Guy:
Friends
- Hesse:
Out of the Dust
- Knowles:
A Separate Peace
- Lowry:
The Giver
- Myers:
Monster
- Potok:
The Chosen
- Rand:
Anthem
- Remarque:
All Quiet on the Western Front
- Rose:
Twelve Angry Men
- Salinger:
Catcher in the Rye
- Shakespeare:
Julius Caesar
- Weisel:
Night
Reality check: works you might be told to use…
FDHS, 11th grade
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Conroy:
The Water is Wide
Fitzgerald:
The Great Gatsby
Gaines:
A Gathering of Old Men
Hansberry
A Raisin in the Sun
Hawthrone: The Scarlet Letter
Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
Lawrence/Lee: Inherit the Wind
Miller:
The Crucible
Myers:
Fallen Angels
Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men
Twain:
The Adventures
Cather:
My Antonia
Crane:
The Red Badge Of Courage
O’ Brien:
The Things They Carried
Wharton:
Ethan Frome
Williams:
The Glass Menagerie
FDHS, 12th grade
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Benitez: A Place Where the Sea Remembers
Bronte: Wuthering Heights
Christie: And The There Were None
Doyle: The Hounds of the Baskerviles
Golding: Lord of the Flies
Orwell: 1984
Shakespeare: Macbeth
Shelley: Frankenstein
Swift:
Gulliver’s Travels
Uchida: The Picture Bride
Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Reality check: works you might be told to use…
WAHS, 9th grade
WAHS, 10th grade
Animal Farm
Cold Sassy Tree
Cry, the Beloved Country
Everyman (Honors Eng. I)
Fahrenheit 451
The Good Earth (Honors Eng. I)
Great Expectations
Hard Times
The Hobbit
House on Mango Street
Hunger of Memory (excerpts)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Illiad (Honors Eng. I)
Much Ado About Nothing
Narrative of Frederick Douglass
Old Man and the Sea
The Power and the Glory
Pygmalion
Romeo and Juliet
Siddhartha (Honors Eng. I)
The Tempest (Honors Eng. I)
Utopia (Honors Eng. I)
The Virginian
The Water is Wide
All Quiet on the Western Front
Candide (Honors Eng. II)
Cyrano De Bergiac
Ethan Frome
Fast Food Nation (excerpts)
The Glass Menagerie
Julius Caesar
Long Walk to Freedom
Lord of the Flies (Honors Eng. I)
Midsummer Night’s Dream
1984 (Honors Eng. II)
Night
Of Mice and Men
Portrait of a Lady
Pride and Prejudice (Honors Eng. II)
Return of the Native
A Separate Peace
Silas Marner
The Stranger (Honors Eng. II)
A Tale of Two Cities
Things Fall Apart
12 Angry Men
Reality check: works you might be told to use…
WAHS, 11th grade)
WAHS, 12th grade
Absalom, Absalom!
The Adventures of Huck Finn
The Crucible
Death of a Salesman (AP Lit. also)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Fountainhead
The Great Gatsby
The House of Mirth
O'Neill Plays
A Raisin in the Sun
The Red Badge of Courage
The Scarlet Letter
Sketchbook
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Sun Also Rises
Their Eyes are Watching God
Three Plays - Wilder
Trifles in A Book of Plays
Beowulf
Canterbury Tales
Don Quixote
Dr. Faustus
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Epic of Gilgamesh (Honors Eng. I)
Frankenstein (Honors Eng. II)
Hamlet
Heart of Darkness (Honors Eng. II)
Hedda Gabler
Ibsen Plays (Honors Eng. II)
The Importance of Being Earnest
Jane Eyre (Honors Eng. II)
King Lear
Les Miserables
Macbeth
Moll Flanders
Murder in the Cathedral
Oliver Twist
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Formal Paper: sample topics from recent semesters
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Readability and YA Lit
Using YA Lit to Meet Academic Standards
Graphic Novels: An Evolving Genre
Body Image Issues in YA Lit
Advertising Literacy: Using Book Trailers to Promote YA Lit
A Case for Multicultural Lit in the Classroom
Egocentrism and the Young Adult
Using Colloquialisms in YA Lit
Shaping Selves: YA Lit and Identity Construction
YA Lit Censored in SC
Assessment: The Problem of Grading Reading
Girls Like Sports Too: An Evaluation of YA Sports Lit
Vicarious Education: Teaching the Human Condition through YA Novels
Creating an Environment for Adolescent Readers
YA Lit: Educational Tools for Parents
Luring Young Adults to Read
Social and Emotional Value of YA Lit
Reading Habits: National and Local Trends
YA Lit in the AP Classroom
Next week:
Bring working draft of formal paper (USB drive, email)
Meet in Capers 313 (computer lab)
Book talks: graphic novels
Note: If you haven’t “claimed” your graphic novel, either do
so today (hard copy) or email me as soon as you have a book.