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Introduction:
So did you enjoy the books you read in your high school English classes?

View Lara's video that she produced as her Action Learning Project multimedia report to learn about the question she was most interested in researching -- how should English teachers choose books to teach with.

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Session Overview
Essential Questions: What do we bring to the course that we can use to create and contribute to our class, a larger audience of educators, and teen readers? How can we teach with literature so that we maintain what Louise Rosenblatt called "the live sense of literature"? How can we use Web 2.0 and Web 3D tools to model and encourage participatory learning through literature -- or what Louise Rosenblatt referred to as to "perform in response to a text"?

During this week you will learn take a personal inventory of the funds of knowledge your bring to the course, create personal learning goals after taking stock of what you bring to the course, begin a personal exploration of what literary quality means to you, read a YA title published in 2010 recognized for its literary quality, read a current YA book recommended by an award-winning young adult book club (Eva Perry Mock Printz Club) and produce your first bookcast on that book.

Topics
Topic 1: Reflecting More On What We Bring to the Course Topic 2: Literary Quality of Young Adult Literature Topic 3: Literature as a Performing Art