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=Sequential Art and Radical Change in Young Adult Literature=

toc Let's do something different. Let's make this a more transactive transmission than usual by engaging you in a Reader Response activity, that's an activity that applies Reader Response theory by drawing you into an aesthetic ("living through") or efferent ("taking from") response to literature.

Brace yourself for a dynamic, transactive experience as you enter the world of digitally interactive poetry. Could this be Radical Change in action?

Work through these activities and integrate what you learn into the blog post described in Sequential Art CCI. Again, use these activities to reflect rather than for a blog prompt. Your blog post for Sequential Art will integrate what you learn from this activity and more. Reflect on how you see the technology changing how we read and write, the increasing role of the image, and/or related topics that resonate with you.

Prereading
Do you like poetry? To what degree? Which poem would you read if you were selected to have a videotape made to be archived in the "My Favorite Poem" Collectiononline? What typically draws you to a poem?

During Reading
Read "Skeleton Sky": A Millennium Poem" (click on link and scroll down to find the poem in the Table of Contents of this online poetry journal) once through and take a protocol as you read -- which means simply jot down what's you're thinking and feeling. You could use a double-entry journal entry for this by noting the thinking on the left side of the page and feeling on the right side.


 * Heads-Up: Click on spokes! **



After Reading
Reflect on your digitally interactive experience by reviewing your notes. What did you enjoy about the experience? What may have seemed just too radical? What do you think about how poetry may be evolving in this digital world?

Is there a theme to "Skeleton Sky"? Does the poem mean anything to you? Did you sense a message?

This may be more Reader Response than most poetry. It would seem that every reader would get a different meaning dependent on the arbitrary choices of links? But is that the case? We'll see when meet in our live class seminar.

The digital world is changing practically everything else in our lives, so why would we think literature might be exempt? There's been much talk about how we read in a digital world -- on the Web, eBooks, smart phones -- but how about how what we're reading, the literature itself is evolving?

We shape our technologies and they, in turn, shape us.

In this session you will learn about a unique theory about how the digital world may be influencing literature, in particular, the world of children's and young adult literature. Eliza Dresang, a library science professor, hit upon this idea in the early nineties and it's becoming more and more relevant with each new technology.

You'll also read from the genre of sequential art / graphica, that's graphic novels and beyond -- all types of literature that is now being created using a strong graphic or image-dominance.

Read with an open mind and know that your brain is expanding as you learn to read with new eyes.


 * Sequential art or graphica seems a better name for a genre that includes nonfiction as well as fiction.

YA Sequential Art resources . ..