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Once you’ve answered the question above , you may begin looking at the books on the cart.

While you wait for class to begin , please use the index card on your desk to answer the following question (and yes, I’ll take up the cards): Why do we teach literature to middle-school and high-school students?.

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  1. While you wait for class to begin, please use the index card on your desk to answer the following question (and yes, I’ll take up the cards): Why do we teach literatureto middle-school andhigh-school students? Once you’ve answered the question above, you may begin looking at the books on the cart. The books on the “academic” side are free; take a many as you like. The YA books are available for check-out: you may sign out up to two books at a time, and should return them within two weeks. You may check out as many books as you like over the course of the semester, but you should have no more than TWO books out at a time.

  2. Agenda for 8-24 Writing exercise Introduce syllabus (online) Introduce website Introduce book club selections Take photos for class notebook BREAK; move to Capers 313 (lab) Housekeeping Define “young adult lit” Introduce , sign up for, and explore ECNing Informal time to look over and check out books Dismiss

  3. Housekeeping details: Does BANNER have your correct email address? (If not, you’ll miss classwide emails; fix it at Bond 253.) Have you created a book club of 3-5 people, and selected your book club books? (See below; salmon sign-up sheet.) Have you ”claimed” any individual books yet? You may claim up to two books per week for the first four weeks. Beginning Sept 21, you may “claim” as many books as you like, up to a total of 8 for the class. (Yellow sign-up sheet.) Book Clubs (choose one book from each group, and discuss it with other book club members): Book #1 – Wintergirls (Laurie Halse Anderson), If I Stay (Gayle Forman), Deadline (Chris Crutcher), Cut (Patricia McCormick), or Living Dead Girl (Elizabeth Scott) Book #2 – The Fighter (Jean-Jacques Greif), If I Should Die Before I Wake (Han Nolan), The Book Thief (Markus Zusak), or Malka (Mirjam Pressler) Book #3 – Maus I & II (Art Spiegelman), American Born Chinese (Gene Luen Yang), Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi), or The Arrival (Shaun Tan)

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  5. For next week: Read The Hunger Games. Cruise ECN discussions of The Hunger Games, contributing if you feel so inclined. Read up on YA titles, looking for books you want to read for your 8 individual selections. (Note: If the book turns out to be a “loser,” don’t use it; do a book talk to warn us about it, but choose a different title to review.)

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