Greetings and welcome. I created Jellyfish Melodies for a class, but I want to see where this takes me, because I have always wanted to write out my thoughts with real readers observing them. As if I already don’t do this in my mind, let’s see how long this lasts.
YAL Blog Post #6: The Youth Lens
“The Sun is Also a Star” represents adolescence through the utilization of youth lenses such as: Characterization, Plot, Setting, Metaphor, and Theme. The youth lens we will address here is themes. Specifically, a theme often seen in YAL novels which develops their characters from adolescence into young adulthood, passion vs. reason. However, unlike other YALs…
YAL Blog Post #5:Sequential Art, Graphic Novels, and Comics
What is the role of sequential art, graphic novels, and comics in the English Language Arts (ELA) classroom? In an ELA classroom, these different modes of media and language open students’ expression and understanding of text, significance in passing on stories, and art. Many students first associate stories with books, they forget other modes of…
YAL Blog Post#4
What I Found on The 57 Bus Smooth seats plush and plastic, silver support poles, and aged stains are always questionable, but the smell of sticky sweat, saucy food, and the alarming scent of a smoking skirt. Screams, laughter, shouts, and flames left the bus empty but changed. Was it hate that day? Or foolishness…
Hot-seat Reflection
The hot-seat experience showed me there are moments in our lives where we have a choice; a choice to change, either for the better or worse. These chances happen throughout our life, never stopping at a certain age. The difference in changing for the better is being able to see more than one perspective and…
YAL Blog Post #2
With the All American Boys text, I want to use the Shared Reading Strategy for grades 6-8 and 9-12. The strategy entail reading, then re-reading the text, allowing it to undergo in class conversation. I feel it is an appropriate strategy to approach students with because it promotes engagement and initiative with students; they can play an…
In-Class Read Response
From the readings, I comprehend young adult literature involves not only disputed age ranges, but the connection between adolescents to their own developmental issues through texts. Bueher focused more on the technicalities; it discussed how to break up the focus between what teachers understand about students and their reading materials. “Teachers can help students develop…
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