Final Reflections on YA Lit
Entering my first class on Young Adult Literature, as a 24-year-old grad student and English teacher, I had a lot of unspoken misconceptions about YA Lit as a genre. Because the Twilight series was the most conspicuous phenomenon in YA Lit during my own preteen and teen years, I made the assumption that all YA…
Should Reading be a Chore or a Choice?
While reading chapters 1 and 5 of Pernille Ripp’s Passionate Readers, I found myself turning a critical eye on my own methods of teaching reading and literature or, I should say, my methods of teaching reading and literature to young adult learners. I make this shift in wording to reflect the shift in focus and…
Beuhler’s YA Pedagogy
In the chapters, “Reading with Passion and Purpose” and “YA Literature and Text Complexity,” Beuhler makes a compelling case for the placement of Young Adult Literature at the heart of secondary Language Arts curricula. They outline the pedagogical “binary” that has arisen among English educators, with some educators creating space in their curricula for Young…
What are “literacy” and “adolescent literature”?
I would say that literacy is a very difficult concept to define because it is so intrinsic to the human experience. Human beings have been constructing and employing linguistic systems for thousands of years and have historically conceptualized the ability to use language as one of the defining attributes of the human species that justified…
Introduce Yourself (Example Post)
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Introduce Yourself (Example Post)
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Introduce Yourself (Example Post)
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