1. Class #5, December 12  Housekeeping (next week, bibliographies…)  Lolly on fantasy and science fiction  Christina’s book talk  Laurence Yep presentation  Book discussion  More fantasy and science fiction Break ~ 7:05  Lois Lowry

2. Next week  Poetry  Verse novels  Filling requests Awards Writing and submitting manuscripts More?  Bring in a book (optional)

3. Fantasy and Science Fiction  Background info  Politics of their time  Allegory  Variety

4. “The Mary Sue Project” “The Mary Sue Project” by Lelac Almagor (November/December 2006 Horn Book Magazine) Fifth-graders write themselves into the story

5. Christina’s booktalk American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang (First Second, 2006)

6. Laurence Yep presentation Emily Brocks Sharwari Tilloo Rachel Strauss

7. Meg Rosoff  Born 1956 in Boston  Princeton  Studied sculpture in London  NYC to finish degree  Worked in publishing  Moved to England; advertising  Married to Englishman, one teenage daughter  Books How I Live Now was first book (2004) Just In Case second book (2006) What I Was (for adults) coming in January, 2008

8. Meg Rosoff web links http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?author id=58449&view=full_sptlght Interview about Just In Case http://www.bookbrowse.com/author_interviews/full/index.c fm?author_number=1059 WBUR audio interview http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2004/11/20041110_a_ main.asp Talking Heads “Life During Wartime” lyrics http://www.lyricsfreak.com/t/talking+heads/life+during+wa rtime_10228666.html

9. Lesson plans for The Giver Random House teacher’s guides http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers/guides/ title/#G http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers/guides/ title/#G Literary Link website http://theliterarylink.com/giver_lessons.html http://theliterarylink.com/giver_lessons.html From Facing History and Ourselves http://www.facinghistory.org/campus/reslib.nsf/ DownloadsSG?OpenForm http://www.facinghistory.org/campus/reslib.nsf/ DownloadsSG?OpenForm

10. Book discussion Discuss both books—their craft as well as your responses to them. Consider conflict in each book. What kinds are represented and how? What do Jonas’s and Daisy’s responses to conflict (internal and external) tell you about them as characters?

12. More books

13. Break

14. Lois Lowry