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. 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. Your presentation should include…

Author Talks

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, 9 th grade - 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, 10 th grade - Anaya: Bless Me Ultima - Bradbury: Fahrenheit 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, 11 th grade - 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, 12 th grade - 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: 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, 9 th 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 WAHS, 10 th grade 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, 11 th 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 WAHS, 12 th grade 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 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, ) 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 me as soon as you have a book.