YA Wednesday Nov. 12, 2014
This is one of those weeks that is so busy that YA Wednesday has been pushed to Friday (Okay, late Friday). Many of us who teach English Education and YA literature courses are getting prepared for the Annual Conference of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and the ALAN Workshop that follows. We are putting final touches on presentations, making sure our students know what to do without us, and planning our schedule for the conference. One of my great privileges is the opportunity to serve on the NCTE's Executive Committee of the Conference on English Education (CEE). The CEE group participates in a number of worthy endeavors on behalf of the NCTE in general and members of CEE specifically. Among their responsibilities they sponsor several commissions. The commission I work with as a liaison is the Commission on the Study and Teaching of Adolescent Literature.
This week’s blog posting is an invitation to attend this particular commission’s session on Young Adult Literature. If you are not going, you are missing out on some fantastic keynote speakers and some great conversations. The topic that holds the keynotes and the table discussions together is: “YA Books that Offer Multi-Voiced, Multi-Genre, and Multicultural Perspectives.” The session starts with E. Lockhart and David Levithan talking about their novels and their perspective on the session’s theme. Check out the roundtable discussion topics and plan to attend a couple. Again, if you can’t attend, all of the discussion leaders and the respondents are great people; they love young adult literature. I am boldly speaking in their behalf, but I don’t think they will mind if you reach out to them for some additional information during or after the conference. I hope to see you there. If drop in to the session, stop by and say high. In addition, the links below connect each discussion leader or respondent to the other events at the conference they will be attending.
Schedule
Sponsored by the CEE Commission on the Study and Teaching of Adolescent Literature, open to all
Level:
Middle, Secondary, College, Teacher Education
Topic of Emphasis:
Literature
Abstract:
In this conversation session, acclaimed young adult authors David Levithan and E. Lockhart will consider how multi-voiced stories offer teens new landscapes for discovery. Table leaders will follow by engaging attendees in discussions related to teaching YA books that offer multi-voiced, multi-genre, and multicultural perspectives. Respondents will close by providing suggestions on how classroom communities can construct their own multi-lensed YA stories.
Presenter(s)
This is one of those weeks that is so busy that YA Wednesday has been pushed to Friday (Okay, late Friday). Many of us who teach English Education and YA literature courses are getting prepared for the Annual Conference of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and the ALAN Workshop that follows. We are putting final touches on presentations, making sure our students know what to do without us, and planning our schedule for the conference. One of my great privileges is the opportunity to serve on the NCTE's Executive Committee of the Conference on English Education (CEE). The CEE group participates in a number of worthy endeavors on behalf of the NCTE in general and members of CEE specifically. Among their responsibilities they sponsor several commissions. The commission I work with as a liaison is the Commission on the Study and Teaching of Adolescent Literature.
This week’s blog posting is an invitation to attend this particular commission’s session on Young Adult Literature. If you are not going, you are missing out on some fantastic keynote speakers and some great conversations. The topic that holds the keynotes and the table discussions together is: “YA Books that Offer Multi-Voiced, Multi-Genre, and Multicultural Perspectives.” The session starts with E. Lockhart and David Levithan talking about their novels and their perspective on the session’s theme. Check out the roundtable discussion topics and plan to attend a couple. Again, if you can’t attend, all of the discussion leaders and the respondents are great people; they love young adult literature. I am boldly speaking in their behalf, but I don’t think they will mind if you reach out to them for some additional information during or after the conference. I hope to see you there. If drop in to the session, stop by and say high. In addition, the links below connect each discussion leader or respondent to the other events at the conference they will be attending.
Schedule
- Saturday 11/22 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM in Gaylord National Resort, Maryland A
Sponsored by the CEE Commission on the Study and Teaching of Adolescent Literature, open to all
Level:
Middle, Secondary, College, Teacher Education
Topic of Emphasis:
Literature
Abstract:
In this conversation session, acclaimed young adult authors David Levithan and E. Lockhart will consider how multi-voiced stories offer teens new landscapes for discovery. Table leaders will follow by engaging attendees in discussions related to teaching YA books that offer multi-voiced, multi-genre, and multicultural perspectives. Respondents will close by providing suggestions on how classroom communities can construct their own multi-lensed YA stories.
Presenter(s)
- Chair: Kelly Bull Notre Dame of Maryland University, Baltimore -
- Keynote Speaker: David Levithan author, Random House Children's Books -
- Keynote Speaker: E. Lockhart author, Delacorte Press, Hyperion, New York, New York -
- Roundtable Leader: Steven Bickmore Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Holden Caulfield’s Echoing Voice in Adolescent Female Narrators
- Roundtable Leader: Kelly Bull Notre Dame of Maryland University, Baltimore - Investigating Social Justice: Queen of Water with Latina Immigrants
- Roundtable Leader: Sarah Donovan University of Illinois, Chicago - The Beautiful Problem of Historical Fiction: Tree Girl and the Guatemalan Genocide
- Roundtable Leader: Judith Hayn University of Arkansas, Little Rock - Every You, Every Me as Psychological Terror
- Roundtable Leader: Lisa Hazlett University of South Dakota, Vermillion - Assisting Adolescents in Using Their Limitations as Strengths
- Roundtable Leader: Melanie Hundley Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee - Multimodal Storytelling: Text and Video in Carman’s Skeleton Creek, Trackers, and Dark Eden
- Roundtable Leader: Jody Polleck Hunter College--CUNY - Bringing Awareness to Issues Surrounding Gender Identity: Conversations and Curricular Guidance for I Am J by Cris Beam
- Respondent: Jacqueline Bach Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Investigating Social Justice: Queen of Water with Latina Immigrants
- Respondent: Katie Dredger James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia - Investigating Social Justice: Queen of Water with Latina Immigrants
- Respondent: Jeffrey Kaplan University of Central Florida - Multimodal Storytelling: Text and Video in Carman’s Skeleton Creek, Trackers, and Dark Eden
- Respondent: Kathryn Kelly Assembly on the Literature and Culture of Appalachia, Christiansburg, Virginia - Holden Caulfield’s Echoing Voice in Adolescent Female Narrators
- Respondent: Robert Prickett Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina - October Mourning: A Mentor Text for a Multi-Voice, Multi-Genre Project
- Respondent: Ebony Elizabeth Thomas University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia - The Beautiful Problem of Historical Fiction: _Tree Girl_ and the _Guatemalan Genocide_
- Respondent: William Williams Concord University, Athens, West Virginia - Assisting Adolescents in Using Their Limitations as Strengths
- Saturday 11/22 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM in Gaylord National Resort, Maryland A
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