ENGL 552: Young Adult Literature

ENGL 552: Young Adult Literature

Instructor: Tom Thompson Office: 128D Capers Hall Phone: 843-953-1418 Email: tom.thompson@citadel.edu

Semester: Spring 2015 Day / Time: Tuesdays, 5-8 pm Room: Capers 109 Ofc hrs: MWF 9-9:50 & MTWRF by appt

Course Description: This special section of ENGL 552, designed for teachers of grades 6-12, will introduce participants to the variety of genres and of topics in current young adult fiction and nonfiction. Though many genres will be included, we will give extra attention to historical fiction and nonfiction. We will also focus on self-selected independent reading and the creation of classroom libraries.

Textbooks: (Available for check-out from class library) ?Reading Unbound (Jeffrey Wilhelm and Michael Smith; Scholastic, 2014) ?The Book Whisperer (Donalyn Miller; Jossey-Bass, 2009) ?Readicide (Kelly Gallagher; Stenhouse, 2009)

Other Books: (Available for check-out from class library; see partial list below) ? Between Shades of Gray (Ruta Sepetys, 2012) ? 2 "book club" books (YA novels or nonfiction) ? 10 individually selected books (YA novels or nonfiction)

Assignments: ? For each book: a book commercial OR a video trailer OR a book review ? One author presentation OR book review blog/website OR academic paper ? Final Exam (a proposal to create and fund classroom library)

Assignment Due Dates: 1/27 and each subsequent week ? book commercial, video trailer, or review for that week's book 3/10, 3/17, 3/24 or 4/07 ? author presentation, blog/website, or paper 4/21 ? final exam

Grades: ? Commercials/trailers/reviews (total) ? 40% ? Presentation, blog/website, or paper ? 20% ? Attendance/participation ? 20% ? Final exam ? 20%

Final Grades: 0-69=F, 70-75=C, 76-79=C+, 80-85=B, 86-89=B+, 90-100=A

Class Web Site: For class materials, forms, assignments, and general information, visit the class website; if you discover any malfunctioning links or outdated information, please let me know by email. The website is read-only; the wiki is for sharing resources and assignments. Class website URL: Class wiki URL (requires password):

Schedule (We will introduce a genre or category one week and discuss books in that category the following week): 01/13 and 01/20 Between Shades of Gray 01/20 and 01/27 American or European history 01/27 and 02/03 multi-cultural (non-western; historical or contemporary) 02/03 and 02/10 US civil rights (book club) 02/10 and 02/17 fantasy 02/17 and 02/24 dystopia, post-apocalyptic, or horror 02/24 and 03/03 science, nature, or technology 03/03 and 03/10 free choice (book club) 03/10 and 03/17 graphic novel (any genre) 03/17 and 03/24 contemporary realistic 03/31: no class (Citadel spring break is 3/24, but we will break with public schools) 03/24 and 04/07 war/genocide (WWI-present) 04/07 and 04/14 mystery, adventure, sports, humor, or survival 04/14 and 04/21 romance

Below is a partial list of books available for check-out from the class library, so you can read ahead. You are, of course, welcome to purchase books or check them out from your school library or public library as well.

American/European history: Al Capone Does My Shirts, Amelia Earhart, Audacity, The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had, Black Potatoes, Boston Jane, A Break with Charity, Candy Bomber, Cast Two Shadows, Chains, Countdown, Crispin, The Cure for Dreaming, The Eagle of the Ninth, Echo, The Fighting Ground, George Washington/Spymaster, The Great Fire, Harlem Summer, In the Shadow of Blackbirds, The Infinity Ring, Iron Thunder, The Letter Writer, Lincoln's Grave Robbers, Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, The Ninth Ward, The Notorious Benedict Arnold, Numbering the Bones, Or Give Me Death, Out of the Dust, Riot, Sophia's War, SOS Titanic, Streams to the River/River to the Sea, Stowaway, Troy, The Voyage of Patience Goodspeed, The Watch that Ends the Night, The Wednesday Wars, The White Witch, Woods Runner

Multi-cultural: The Absolutely True Diary, A Bottle in the Gaza Sea, Boy and Painted Cave, Boys without Names, I am Nujood, Inside Out and Back Again, Kira-Kira, Little Princes, A Long Walk to Water, Mexican White Boy, The Milk of Birds, My Name is Parvana, Persepolis, Red Scarf Girl, The Secret Sky, The Wadjet Eye

US civil rights: Devil on My Heels, Kizzy Ann Stamps, The Lions of Little Rock, One Crazy Summer, Port Chicago 50, Warriors Don't Cry, The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963, A Wreath for Emmett Till

Fantasy: Artemis Fowl, Before I Fall, City of Bones, Clockwork Angel, Fablehaven, The False Prince, Girl of Fire and Thorns, Hush Hush, Invisibility, The Knife of Never Letting Go, Magyk, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Nightshade, Replica, Steelheart, Throne of Glass, Wake, The Warrior Heir, White Cat

Dystopia, post-apocalyptic, or horror: Bumped, Divergent, Expiration Day, Extremities, Feed, The Glass Arrow, The Graveyard Book, Legend, Matched, The Maze Runner, Under the Never Sky, Unwind, The 5th Wave

Science, nature, or technology: The Adoration of Jenna Fox, Army of Frogs, Ashfall, Charles and Emma, Code Orange, Deadly, Ender's Game, Feed, Fever 1793, Life as We Knew It, Replica, Skinned, Unwind, Virals

Graphic: Aphrodite, Athena, Chinese Born American, Donner Dinner Party, El Deafo, Fahrenheit 451, Hereville, Into the Volcano, Maus, My Friend Dahmer, Persepolis, Poseidon, Teen Boat, Zeus

Contemporary realistic: Almost Home, Angry Management, Aristotle & Dante and the Secrets of the Universe, Bird Lake Moon, Brutal, Close to Famous, Cuba 15, Cut, Deadline, Debbie Harry Sings in French, Eleanor and Park, Every Day, Fangirl, The Fault in Our Stars, First Part Last, Hold Fast, Homeboyz, I Was Here, The Impossible Knife of Memory, It's Kind of a Funny Story, The Last Chance Texaco, Living Dead Girl, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Money Hungry, Nothing but the Truth, Okay for Now, Openly Straight, Orange Houses, Period 8, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Pregnancy Project, Shine, Speak, Thirteen Reasons Why, Twisted, We Were Liars, Whale Talk, Will Grayson, Willow, Wintergirls

War/Genocide: Bomb, The Book Thief, The Bosnia List, Code Name Verity, The Endless Steppe, Escape, Fallen Angels, The Fighter, The Great War, The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell, Left for Dead, Leviathan, Like Water on Stone, Milkweed, Prisoner B-3087, Rose under Fire, The Russian Version of the Second World War, Soldier Boys, Sunrise over Fallujah, Tree Girl, The Vietnam War, Zlata's Diary

Mystery, adventure, sports, humor, or survival: The Big Field, Bras & Broomsticks, Caught by the Sea, The Diviners, Dogsong, Don't Even Think About It, The Downside of Being Up, Eighth Grade Bites, The Final Four, Hatchet, Heist Society, Hit Count, The Honest Truth, I Funny, I'd Tell You I Love You, The Long Patrol, Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life, Muckers, Nerd Girls, Out of the Easy, Razorhurst, Searching for Sky, Strings Attached, What I Saw and How I Lied

Romance: An Abundance of Katherines, Anna and the French Kiss, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares, The Fault in Our Stars, The Future of Us, I'd Tell You I Love You, If I Stay, Isla, Just One Day, Looking for Alaska, Matched, Paper Towns, The Secret Sky, Shiver, Someone Like You, Suite Scarlett, Thirteen Little Blue Envelopes

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