Today's Young Adult Literature: Bridges to the Classics
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Today’s Young Adult
Literature:Bridges to the classics & Stand-Alone readings
We want our students to enjoy reading...
That’s one of the International Reading
Association/NCTE Standards
12. Students use spoken, written, and visual language to accomplish their own purposes (e.g., for learning, enjoyment, persuasion, and the exchange of information).
So, what do your students read for
PLEASURE?
Odds are--they read
and enjoyedStephanie Meyer’s
Twilight series
Can we use books like
Twilight in our English
Curriculum? with validity & authenticity
We know that pairing texts with similar themes “works”
I’m sure you can put any number of texts in this list
We know that pairing texts with similar themes “works”
• Romeo & Juliet with West Side Story
I’m sure you can put any number of texts in this list
We know that pairing texts with similar themes “works”
• Romeo & Juliet with West Side Story
• Hamlet with Siddhartha and Things Fall Apart
I’m sure you can put any number of texts in this list
We know that pairing texts with similar themes “works”
• Romeo & Juliet with West Side Story
• Hamlet with Siddhartha and Things Fall Apart
• Julius Caesar with Animal Farm
I’m sure you can put any number of texts in this list
We know that pairing texts with similar themes “works”
• Romeo & Juliet with West Side Story
• Hamlet with Siddhartha and Things Fall Apart
• Julius Caesar with Animal Farm
• The Age of Innocence with Ethan Frome
I’m sure you can put any number of texts in this list
We know that pairing texts with similar themes “works”
• Romeo & Juliet with West Side Story
• Hamlet with Siddhartha and Things Fall Apart
• Julius Caesar with Animal Farm
• The Age of Innocence with Ethan Frome
• The Scarlet Letter with Anna Karenina
I’m sure you can put any number of texts in this list
This is another NJCCCS
• 3.1.12.H.9 Read and compare at least two works, including books, related to the same genre, topic, or subject and produce evidence of reading (e.g., compare central ideas, characters, themes, plots, settings) to determine how authors reach similar or different conclusions.
like Twilight, students may be more likely to remain engaged and to
find the applicability of canonical literature to
their lives.
By using popular
coming of age literature
But, how do we integrate Meyer’s Book into the
curriculum?
Can we find ways to
work with these 4
Coming of Age texts?
Let’s discuss this...as we try to cluster together several
popular Coming of Age texts with the required, canonical &
AP texts in our curriculum