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“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 YALsContinue reading “YAL Blog Post #6: The Youth Lens”

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 ofContinue reading “YAL Blog Post #5:Sequential Art, Graphic Novels, and Comics”

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 foolishnessContinue reading “YAL Blog Post#4”

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 andContinue reading “Hot-seat Reflection”

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 anContinue reading “YAL Blog Post #2”

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 developContinue reading “In-Class Read Response”

Control perspective, such books influence life choice young adults struggle.

“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they’re ok, then it’s you.”  ― Rita Mae Brown — Oscar Wilde. Greetings and welcome. I created Jellyfish Melodies for a class, but I want to see where this takes me,Continue reading “My First Blog Post”

Greetings to curiosity catchers, I am a rag with sausage limbs which range between a peanut butter truffle to a cooked caramel color, glossy plastic eyes of black coffee matching my straight hair of yarn, and a stature shorter than Napoleon. If anyone saw such a creature, it might be me. But then, it mightContinue reading “Talking to Myself”