Textbook

• N/A

Online Resource

• Colman, "Hooked on Nonfiction"

1. Post and reply to Introduction Discussion Forum.
   
2. Contribute to class Wordle: "Nonfiction." 
3. Create Student Home Page.

Optional

1. Practice using course email.
2. Practice using the Drop Box.

Textbook

• Heard, Finding the Heart of Nonfiction, “Types of Nonfiction,” pages 8-12

eReserve

• Colman, “Point of Departure” for Kiefer and Wilson’s “Nonfiction Literature for Children: Old Assumptions and New Directions, pages 299-301
• Kiefer and Wilson, “Nonfiction Literature for Children: Old Assumptions and New Directions,” pages 290-299
• Tribunella and Hintz, “Conversation Currents: Considering Informational Texts,” pages 296-302

1. Post and respond to Discussion Forum.

Textbook

• Aston and Long, A Seed Is Sleepy
• Heard, Finding the Heart of Nonfiction, “Reading Nonfiction with Different Lenses,” pages 20-24
  

eReserve

• Lehman, “Literary Qualities in Nonfiction,” pages 58-63
• Rosenblatt, “Literature—S.O.S!,” pages 89-95
• Zinsser, “The Transaction,” pages 3-5
  

1. Post and respond to Discussion Forum.

Textbook

• Heard, Finding the Heart of Nonfiction

eReserve

• N/A

1. Post and respond to Discussion Forum.

2. Submit reaction paper #1.

Textbook

• Montgomery and Bishop, Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s Strangest Parrot

eReserve

• Harvey, “Nonfiction Inquiry: Using Real Reading and Writing to Explore the World,” pages 12-22
• Stead, “Nurturing the Inquiring Mind through the Nonfiction Read-Aloud,” pages 488-495
• Maloch and Horsey, “Living Inquiry: Learning From and About Informational Texts in a Second Grade Classroom,” pages 475-485
• Zarnowski and Turkel, “Nonfiction Literature that Highlights Inquiry: How Real People Solve Real Problems,” pages 30-37

1. Post and respond to Discussion Forum.

2. Submit and post testimonial #1.

Textbook

• Stanton, Little Humans

Video

• Singh, “The Power of Curiosity” TEDx Talk

eReserve

• Kerper, "Choosing Quality Nonfiction Literature: Examing Aspects of Design," pages 65-78
• Peterson, “Award-Winning Authors and Illustrators Talk About Writing and Teaching Writing,” pages 498-506
• Yopp and Yopp, "Young Children's Limited and Narrow Exposure to Informational Text," pages 480-490

1. Post and respond to Discussion Forum.

Textbook

• Sidman and Prange, Song of the Water Boatman & Other Pond Poems

eReserve

• Colman, “A New Way to Look at Literature: A Visual Model for Analyzing Fiction and Nonfiction Texts,” pages 257-268
• Kesler, “Evoking the World of Poetic Nonfiction Picture Books,” pages 338-354
• Ward and Young, “Quiet Echoes from the Heart: Joyce Sidman and Her Poetry,” pages 131-135

1. Post and respond to Discussion Forum.

2. Submit reaction paper #2.

Textbook

• Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon

eReserve

• Gutkind, “Private and Public,” pages 11-25
• Hesse, “Imagining a Place for Creative Nonfiction,” pages 18-24

1. Post and respond to Discussion Forum.

2. Submit and post testimonial #2.

Textbook

• Nelson, Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans

Online Journal Article

• Almerico, "Linking Children's Literature with Social Studies in the Elementary Curriculum"

eReserve

• Murphy, The Great Fire, “Introduction” and “A City Ready to Burn,” pages 11 and 13-25
• Zarnowski, “History Writing That’s ‘Good to Think With’: The Great Fire, Blizzard!, and An American Plague,” pages 250-262

1. Post and respond to Discussion Forum.

2. Submit reaction paper #3.

Textbook

• Leedy, Seeing Symmetry

eReserve

• Altieri, “Using Children’s Literature and Other Texts to Support Mathematical Learning,” pages 18-33
• Jewett, Johnson, McKoy Lowery, and Stiles, “Connecting Science and Math Concepts With Children’s and Young Adult Literature in a CCSS World,” pages 44-47

1. Post and respond to Discussion Forum.

Textbook

• Cassino, Nelson, and Aoyagi, The Story of Snow: The Science of Winter’s Wonder

eReserve

• Pappas, “The Information Book Genre: Its Role in Integrated Science Literacy Research and Practice,” pages 226-250
• Zarnowski and Turkel, “How Nonfiction Reveals the Nature of Science,” pages 295-310

   

1. Post and respond to Discussion Forum.

2. Submit reaction paper #4.

Textbook

• Greenberg, Jordan, and Floca, Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring

eReserve

• Floca, “Pen, Ink, Watercolor, Repeat,” pages 60-61
• Lehman, Freeman, and Scharer, “The Arts,” pages 85-99
• Vardell, “Talking with Jan Greenberg,” pages 19-23

1. Post and respond to Discussion Forum.

Textbook

Choose at least one of the following:

• McClafferty, Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium
• Morales and O’Meara, Viva Frida!
• Schubert and DuBois, Monsieur Marceau

eReserve

• Ash and Barthelmess, “What Makes a Good Picture Book Biography?,” pages 40-45
• Edmondson, “Constructing and Engaging Biography: Considerations for High School English Teachers,” pages 44-50

   

1. Post and respond to Discussion Forum.

Textbook

• Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming

Online Resource

• Doyen, “What is a Memoir?  What Makes a Memoir Different from an Autobiography or Biography?”

1. Post and respond to Discussion Forum.
2. Contribute to the class Wordle for "nonfiction: revisted."

3. Submit reaction paper #5.

        No readings assigned.

1. Post and respond to Discussion Forum.

2. Submit and post testimonial #3.