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Printz of Literary Quality CCI Assignments
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1. Contribute to "The Printz of YA Books" Literary Quality Collaborative Critical Inquiry
Tools:  Your blog Directions: Please note that this Collaborative Critical Inquiry extends over five sessions. Check the Working Syllabus to see when components are due.

Step 1: Review the rubric and exemplars for Collaborative Critical Inquiries -- see Assessment.

Step 2: Reflect on your own original ideas about literary quality and layer on your consideration of the American Library Association's official Printz Committee (see Policies & Procedures) Just jot down notes now to review later.

Step 3: Read your top choice of the [|top five YA titles named by the 2012 American Library Association's official Printz Committee] or your choice of two titles from the Eva Perry Mock Printz Club Short List. Three books over the next five weeks of the project and the order is not important. (Please note that you may need to submit a request to view this ALA page so plan ahead. Yes, it is irritating! YALSA should share this information generously). The winner is Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley and honor books are Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler with art by Maira Kalman The Returning by Christine Hinwood Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

Again, consider literary quality. Plan to complete your reading and blogging by Sunday, Sept. 2, 11:59 pm. Blog your response followed by a brief reflection on literary quality.

Step 4: Read your second selected YA Printz or Eva Perry title and blog (response + reflection on literary quality by Sunday, Sept. 9, 11:59 pm)

Step 5: Read your third selected YA Printz or Eva Perry title and blog (response + reflection on literary quality by Sunday, Sept. 16, 11:59 pm)

Step 6: Choose one of these three books -- official Printz or Eva Perry Mock Printz -- for which to create a bookcast.

Step 7: Read these two articles, one by noted YA advocate, editor, and writer Marc Aronson and the other by a teacher and former ECI 521 student Clarie Horne. Consider the question of who should judge the literary quality of Young Adult Literature?


 * Aronson, M., "Calling on Ye Printz and Printzesses, " The Exploding Myth. pp. 109 - 122. eReserves
 * Horne, C., "Beautiful, Fresh, Distinguished . . . Teen Readers Take on the 2002 Printz Award." VOYA, Spring 2002 . eReserves

Step 8: Now for the most fun of all -- watch the 2012 Melinda Awards for Young Adult Literature! This is the annual awards program that brings the Eva Perry Mock Printz Club and the Spring ECI 521 Class together to compare notes on the books they consider most distinguished in literary quality. How does hearing from teens and their thoughts on literary quality inform your opinion?

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Step 9: Compose a blog post about your reading and thinking about literary quality and how it may have been influenced by your reading and viewing. Consider questions that you'll continue to grapple with. Feel free to record your post as an audio file if you'd like. [|SoundCloud] is a great tool for this or [|Eyejot] if you enjoy doing video. Be sure to tag your blog post with "bookhenge" and also include "bookhenge" after the final period in the body of your post.

Step10: Tweet the news of your blog post and include the link. Use #bookhenge

Step 11: Review the blog posts of at least two colleagues before our LIVE Class when we'll complete this collaborative critical inquiry on Monday, Sept. 19. . Provide substantive blog comments to these three colleagues and attempt to "weave" their thoughts and ideas with your own as you read and comment.

Step 12. Come to class on Thursday, Sept. 27, ready to discuss the question: What does literary quality in young adult literature look like?