Kidlit Bloggers

This is one of the blogs that my students and I created for a course on young adult literature. For this particular blog, students weren't required to post and we used the space as a complement to our twice a week sessions. The "Issues of Diversity in Children's and Adolescent Literature" blog shows what it looked like when I had a blog as an instructor and asked students to create and link their own review blogs to the course site.
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Thursday, April 8, 2010

Optional: The Case of the Purloined Paper

You may remember that when we initially discussed the syllabus, I mentioned that I had included Schulte's "The Case of the Purloined Paper" in the coursepack, but hadn't assigned it to any particular week.

I included this article because I think that, for those of you who will be teaching literature, it is important to discuss and think critically about how the availability of on-line reviews, papers, etc. might be shaping students' willingness and even ability to develop their own responses to literature.

I'm curious to hear people's responses to the article: Have you seen this as a problem? Have you seen teachers who have found creative responses to encourage students to do their own writing and/or use outside resources appropriately?

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