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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Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Superhero Identity Text Set

Here is my final project. It's a text set about Superheroes and identity, and the issues superheroes have coming to terms with their identities. I hope you enjoy.

Superhero Text Set


Brett Robb

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Themed Text Set

Final Project

That link will take you to my final project. It was my first shot at creating a Prezi, so I hope it works out ok. Use the arrow keys to navigate it, and click to enlarge or rotate. Hope you guys enjoy it!

-Joel

Final Project

Here is my final project. See y'all tomorrow :)

Portrayal/Betrayal

Enjoy,
Brandon

Monday, May 3, 2010

Children's Literature Association Draft Program

If anyone is interested in heading down to the ChLA conference in Ann Arbor in June, here's a link to the draft of the program.

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Gallery Walk on Wednesday!

Gallery Walk of Young Adult Literature Projects
12:45-1:45 on Wednesday, May 5
Regular classroom


The votes are in on how to share final projects. The option that most people chose was the gallery walk. (Small groups came in a strong second.) 

Other than bringing a copy of your project/presentation, you don't have anything to do to prepare. (Although if your project is on-line, try to bring a computer. I'll have mine and we can also use the classroom computer.) We'll do the actual organization on Wednesday, but since we'll want to have everyone have a chance to share and talk about his/her project, we'll divide the class into groups and take turns mingling and "presenting".

I'll bring some treats!

Submitting projects:
  • If your project needs to be submitted as a hard copy (i.e. poster, scrapbook, binder, etc.), then you can just hand it in at the end of the Gallery Walk. (I'll also supply post-it notes and ask you when and how you would like the project returned.)
  • If your project is a traditional paper, please submit it to the Angel dropbox before the Gallery Walk. I will send feedback via email.
  • If your project is on-line, you can either do a post on our blog with a link or go to the Angel dropbox and supply the url for the project. (Either way, I'll email feedback privately.)
 Other questions?

Thursday, April 29, 2010

More Promotion

The Mitten Mavens the Lansing Roller Derby League is having a fundraiser at Noodles and Company on May 5th from 4-9pm. By mentioning the Mitten Mavens 25% of the sale will go to the Mitten Mavens. Please support these women as they do what they love. I know this has nothing to do with YAL but their are many women who fighting for some of the themes we have discussed. These women are figures of women empowerment and breaking gender stereotypes. So please support them soon after our final :)

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Amy Huntley visits today

Just a reminder that we'll be meeting in Erickson 252 for class today. Amy Huntley will be talking to us about The Everafter, so bring your books and questions!