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Required Texts:
Required Texts:
[CI] Haddon, Mark. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Vintage, 2004.
[M] Lewis, John, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell. March: Book One. Top Shelf, 2013.
[OCS] Williams-Garcia, Rita. One Crazy Summer. Amistad, 2010.
[ABC] Yang, Gene Luen. American Born Chinese. First Second Books, 2006.
[B] All other readings—including The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian—will be located in Brightspace Resources in PDF form. You must print out the shorter PDFs or open them in a program that allows note taking during reading and in class. If neither of these options are acceptable, I can give you the titles of additional books to buy in order to access these readings.
I strongly encourage you to get a public library card in order to have the widest access to these texts.
Major texts
Major texts
(with links to purchase, if needed):
(with links to purchase, if needed):
As mentioned above, I strongly encourage you to get an Indianapolis Public Library card (which is free and does curbside pickup in many locations!) and to take advantage of its many opportunities. You can use your on-campus address if you have one. The library card will also allow you to access Libby and Overdrive for free e-books, movies, TV shows, and audiobooks.
Recommended (but not required) Text:
Recommended (but not required) Text:
Bullock, Richard, Michal Brody, and Francine Weinberg. The Little Seagull Handbook. 2nd ed. New York: Norton, 2014. Print. ISBN 9780393935806 or E-Book E-ISBN: 9780393522891.
Contact me if you want some advice about whether or not to acquire this book!
Review the following sections of The Little Seagull Handbook to guide writing, presentation, and research expectations:
W-1, 2: Contexts p.2-8
W-4 Developing Paragraphs p.17-29
W-5 Designing (for your YA timeline) p. 30-36
W-6: Giving Presentations p.37-42
W-11: Literary Analyses p.62-65
W-14: Reading Strategies p.75-78
R-1: Doing Research p.80-91
MLA: start at p 109 (Green)
Gary Soto's poem "Oranges" (from first day of class)
Gary Soto's poem "Oranges" (from first day of class)
Soto - Oranges.pdfVideo from day 2: "Why Adults are Buzzing about YA Literature"
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