Session+2

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.

media type="custom" key="10191695"

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 session you will, begin a personal exploration of what literary quality means to you, read a recent YA title recognized by ALA's Printz Committee or the Eva Perry Mock Printz Club for its literary quality, contribute to the construction of our pedagogical framework for learning through literature with young adults, and look ahead to our exploration of literature as a performing art and the creation of bookcasts.

Topics
Topic 1: Literary Quality of Young Adult Literature Topic 2: Literature as Exploration Topic 3: Preview of Literature as a Performing Art -- Look ahead to bookcasting!