Textbook

• The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
  • Chapter 01: There and Back Again
  • Chapter 05: Walking the Walk
  • Appendix B: Ultimate Library List
• Readicide
  • Appendix A: 101 Books my Reluctant Readers Love to Read

Course Reserves (To access these articles, click on the Course Reserves link in your Course Navigation Menu.)

• Robbins, S.J. (2014, June). Remember Reading. Real Simple magazine, 107-110.

1. Task 1.1: Document one 24 hour time period of your own reading activity.
2. CANCELLED- TECHNICAL PROBLEMS Task 1.2: Post personal introduction using VoiceThread and reply to fellow students' posts via VoiceThread. CANCELLED
3. Task 1.3: Share your decision for your major project and explain your rationale for choosing this option via the Yammer Course Forum.
4. Task 1.4: Post and reply to Goodreads Hooked on YA Books.
5. Task 1.5: Post and reply to Yammer Lesson Readings Forum.

Textbook

• The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

  • Chapter 02: Everybody is a Reader
  • Whisper Student Surveys
• Readicide
  • Chapter 01: The Elephant in the Room
  • Chapter 02: Endangered Minds
  • Chapter 03: Avoiding the Tsunami

Course Reserves (To access these articles, click on the Course Reserves link in your Course Navigation Menu.)

• Myers, J. (1992). Butch, Jane, and Bobby: Why I Read. Miller-Cleary, L., Casey, M., Cleary, L.M., Casey, M., & Hudson-Ross, S., Children's Voices: Children Talk About Literacy (pp. 150-155, Chapter 20). Heinemann.

1. Task 2.1: Post and reply to Goodreads Hooked on YA Books.
2. Task 2.2: Conduct an interview with a teenager using Donalyn Miller's Reading Interest-A-Lyzer (OR use another form of interviewing to learn about teen reading).
3. Task 2.3: Work within your affinity group to identify patterns in reading practices of teens. Post analysis listing 2-3 patterns to Yammer Course Forum.
4. Task 2.4: Respond to one affinity group's analysis within the Yammer Discussion Course Forum; connect ideas from your readings to explore patterns in teen reading.

Textbook

• The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
  • Chapter 03: There's a Time and a Place
  • Chapter 04: Reading Freedom
  • Appendix A: The Care and Feeding of a Classroom Library

Other Readings

• Explore online social media sites for YA literature.

Textbook

• The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
  • Chapter 06: Cutting the Teacher Strings
• Readicide
  • Chapter 03: Avoiding the Tsunami
• Inquiry-Based English Instruction: Engaging Students in Life and Literature
  • Chapter 01: Constructing Social Worlds: An Introduction

1. Task 4.1: Post and reply to Goodreads Discussion Forum: Hooked on YA Books.
   
2. Task 4.2: Brainstorm key transformations to traditional practices in the Yammer Course Forum. Implement an activity and post a description and report on at least one specific result in the Yammer Course Forum (The implementation and reporting on results might extend into Lesson 5 as needed).

Textbook

• Readicide
  • Chapter 04: Finding the "Sweet Spot" of Instruction
• Inquiry-Based English Instruction: Engaging Students in Life and Literature
  • Chapter 02: A Practice-Oriented Curriculum for Inquiry into Social Worlds

Course Reserves (To access these articles, click on the Course Reserves link in your Course Navigation Menu.)

• Myers, J. (1995) Moving readers’ response into cultural critique. Teaching and Learning Literature. Volume 4, No. 5. pp. 3-7
• Corcoran, Bill.  (1994) Balancing Reader Response and Cultural Theory and Practice. In Knowledge in the making: challenging the text in the classroom. Corcoran, Bill; Hayhoe, Mike; Pradl, Gordon M. Boynton/Cook Heinemann (pp. 3-23)

1. Task 5.1: Post and reply to Goodreads Hooked on YA Books.
   
2. Task 5.2: Post and reply to Yammer Affinity Group Forum.
3. Task 5.3: Post and reply to Yammer Course Forum.
   

Textbook

• Inquiry-Based English Instruction: Engaging Students in Life and Literature
  • Chapter 03: A Social Worlds Unit in Ninth-Grade English
  • Chapter 04: Inquiry Strategies: Immersing; Identifying Concerns, Issues, and Dilemmas; and Contextualizing

Course Reserves (To access these articles, click on the Course Reserves link in your Course Navigation Menu.)

• Choice selections from course YA novels

1. Task 6.1: Post and reply to Goodreads Hooked on YA Books.
2. Task 6.2: Post and reply to Yammer Course Forum.

Textbook

• Inquiry-Based English Instruction: Engaging Students in Life and Literature
  • Chapter 05: Critiquing and Transforming Social Worlds

Other Readings

• Bean, Thomas W Moni, Karen (2003) Developing students' critical literacy: Exploring identity construction in young adult fiction. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 46.8 (pp. 638-648)
• Choice selections from the class YA novels

1. Task 7.1: Post and reply to Goodreads Hooked on YA Books.
2. Task 7.2: Post and reply to Yammer Course Forum.

3. Task 7.3: Submit your Literary Analysis to the Yammer Course Forum.

Textbook

• Inquiry-Based English Instruction: Engaging Students in Life and Literature
  • Chapter 06: Tools Representing Social Worlds

Other Readings

• Myers, J. & Beach, R. (2004). Constructing critical literacy practices through technology tools and inquiry. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 4(3), 257-268.
• Resources For Hypermedia Authoring, Critical Literacy Education, and Technology Integration Across the Curriculum
• Selections from choice class YA novels

   

1. Task 8.1: Post and reply to Goodreads Hooked on YA Books.
2. Task 8.2: Post and reply to Yammer Course Forum.

3. Task 8.3: Begin construction of small group website organized by the thematic responses/connections across the class YA novels.

Textbook

• Inquiry-Based English Instruction: Engaging Students in Life and Literature
  • Chapter 7: Peer Worlds
  • Chapter 8: School and Sports Worlds
  • Chapter 9: Family and Romance Worlds
  • Chapter 10: Community and Workplace Worlds
  • Chapter 11: Virtual Worlds

Other Readings

• Choice selections from course YA novels

1. Task 9.1: Post and reply to Goodreads Hooked on YA Books.
2. Task 9.2: Post and reply to Yammer Course Readings Forum.

3. Task 9.3: Continue working on your multimodal website. Add additional artifacts and YA novel quotes that construct specific experiences of important social world issues.

Other Readings

• Explore online YA literature
• Myers, J. and Eberfors, F. (2010) Globalizing English through Intercultural Critical Literacy. English Education. Vol. 42, No. 2 (pp. 148-170)

1. Task 10.1: Post and reply to Goodreads Hooked on YA Books.
2. Task 10.2: Post and reply to Yammer Course Forum.

3. Task 10.3: Continue working on your multimodal website. Develop pen pal letters between two or more characters.

Textbook

• Chapter 11: Virtual Worlds
  

Course Reserves (To access these articles, click on the Course Reserves link in your Course Navigation Menu.)

• Blasingame, J. (2012) “YAL in Cyberspace:  How Teachers are Following Their Students into New Literacies,”  in Teaching Young Adult Literature Today: Insights, Considerations, and Perspectives for the Classroom Teacher by Hyan, J. and Kaplan, J.(pp. 257-273, Chapter 15) Rowan and Littlefield Publishers,

​Other Readings

• Choice selections from course YA novels
• Carter, James Bucky. (2007) Transforming English with Graphic Novels: Moving toward Our "Optimus Prime" The English Journal. Vol. 97, No. 2. (pp. 49-53)

1. Task 11.1: Post and reply to Goodreads Hooked on YA Books.
2. Task 11.2: Post and reply to Yammer Course Forum.

3. Task 11.3: Continue working on your multimodal website. Explore how juxtapositions of various modes of representation generate critical thinking about the ideas illustrated in each media text.

Course Reserves (To access these articles, click on the Course Reserves link in your Course Navigation Menu.)

• Myers, J. (2013). Negotiating the Privilege of Print With the Affordances of Digital Video Authoring, in Carl A. Young & Sara Kajder, Research on Technology in English Education

​Other Readings

• Choice selections from course YA novels
• Myers, J. & Beach, R. (2004). Constructing critical literacy practices through technology tools and inquiry. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 4(3), 257-268.

1. Task 12.1: Post and reply to Goodreads Hooked on YA Books.
2. Task 12.2: Post and reply to Yammer Course Forum.

3. Task 12.3: Author a short video and integrate it into your group's multimodal website.

There are no readings assigned for this week's lesson except the reading of your classmates' projects.

1. Task 13.1: Post and reply to Goodreads Hooked on YA Books.
2. Task 13.2: Submit Goodreads Reading Response Record.
3. Task 13.3: Post and reply to Yammer Course Forum.
4. Task 13.4: Submit Final Project to Yammer Course Forum and provide feedback to fellow students' projects.