Team B reading questions. Responses of 250-300 words are due by 9PM on Monday 10/6 as an original post. Don’t forget a creative title for your post. 1. When Robert Audley and George Talboys steal into Lady Audley’s room, they find her portrait, which the…
this twitter manifesto reminded me of our discussions of celine dion (and we’re reading jennifer weiner later in the semester, so her tweets are particularly apropos). [in case you missed it, she’s referring to an article by new york times TV reviewer alessandra stanley about…
Team A reading questions. Responses of 250-300 words are due by 9PM on Wednesday 10/1 as an original post. Don’t forget a creative title for your post. 1. A novel’s opening is one of its most crucial moments. Choose any part of the opening—the first…
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014: Discussion of Persuasive Essay Writing Posted by Chris M. We began class by discussing proper citation formatting. Professor Bergren walked us through an introduction to citation formatting, using the website “Purdue Owl” as a reference. She offered advice on how to…
So, tomorrow: You’ll be in groups of three, which Maddie will assign at the beginning of class. First, share the docs: -open your essay in google docs -click “share” in the upper right corner, then select “anyone with the link can edit,” and finally click…
A theme that relates specifically to John Green’s “The Fault in Our Stars” and other young adult novels is intimacy between two characters. Alleen Pace Nilsen’s article titled “Books for Young Adults: Love and the Teenage Reader” discusses young love in literature and different books…
In the article “Young Adult Literature: Let It Be Hope” by Kristen Randle, Randle argues that it has become common today for young adult novels to be too “bleak,” with story lines that only focus on the negative reality of the world “in order to…
Thomas W. Bean and Karen Moni’s article “Developing Student’s Critical Literacy: Exploring Identity Construction in Young Adult Fiction” addressed how the identities of characters are formed in popular young adult fiction. Bean and Moni make it a point that “Because they deal with issues that…
For better or worse, YAL is extremely prevalent in today’s society in a variety of ways. YA novels pack bookstore shelves, inspire movies, and even find themselves in syllabi of college English courses. David Cappella’s article, “Kicking it Up Beyond the Casual: Fresh Perspectives in…
I read an article discussing the lack of positive energy and themes in young adult literature, an article which complained that “Readers are left with pictures of troubled teens living in a negative adult world and stories that end with little hope” (Dick Abrahamson and…