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Session 3: The Radical Change of Young Adult Literature
Young adulthood is a time of exploration, of testing one's limits, learning about the world and creating a place in it. It's a time of change and lots of it.

Radical Change is a theory constructed by Eliza Dresang to explain how the digital world is changing children's literature. And no genre is experiencing this change more than Young Adult Literature.

Change, especially Radical Change, demands creative negotiating of uncharted waters.

In her Action Learning Project, Emmy explores how to infuse creative practices into core curricula by updating a well-known tech strategy: Bernie Dodge's WebQuest.

So is Emmy teaching creativity? Watch and see what you think.

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Session Overview
Essential Questions: What is Young Adult Literature? How is Young Adult Literature evolving? What is the promise and the peril of Young Adult Literature?

In this session we will explore Dresang's theory in light of what Aronson's ideas about Young Adult Literature, the unpredictability of readers' response, and the educator's motivations for teaching through literature. We'll also look at a fascinating genre, graphica or graphic novels and graphic nonfiction. As the image becomes more dominant in our digital age, so does graphica.

Topics:
Topic 1: The Promise and the Peril of Young Adult Literature

Topic 2: Graphica and the Radical Change of Young Adult Literature