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Official course blog for ECI 521: Learning Through Literature with Young Adults. ECI 521, Teaching Literature for Young Adults, is graduate course designed to engage pre and inservice teachers and librarians in an exploration of learning through literature with young adults. This is the official course blog where updates will be posted each week. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). ECI 521 Fall 2012 Blogs.
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Learning and Teaching as Possibility | The Bookhenge
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Official course blog for ECI 521: Learning Through Literature with Young Adults. Learning and Teaching as Possibility. Triangle-based, student-run theatre company, Left Field Productions performs Shakespeare’s “As You Like It.”. Not read. — Alex Kaulfuss, Visualizing Literacy: Determining the Impact of Graphic Novels in the English Classroom on Reading Comprehension. Educator and philosopher, Maxine Greene, often spoke as “teaching as possibility” and she advocated for “a. Do consider as you research and...
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The Right to Learn | The Bookhenge
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Official course blog for ECI 521: Learning Through Literature with Young Adults. The Right to Learn. Photo by Cris Crissman. 8220;Kids [here] have the right to read. They have the right to think and imagine. To see their own world in books. To see other worlds in books.” — Rainbow Rowell. Kids also have a right to create! And, perhaps, in the creating they can learn to create the world they can imagine. 8221; which unpacked included “what is literacy? 8221; and “what is literature? For this evolving Coll...
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Making Bold Choices Wisely | The Bookhenge
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Official course blog for ECI 521: Learning Through Literature with Young Adults. Making Bold Choices Wisely. So you’d think in this day and age when TV, movies, and the Web make the viewing of mature material hard not to experience that challenges to books would be a rare occurrence. The latest data on book challenges from the American Library Association does show a downward trend in book challenges but still the average is one a day in the United States ( Huffington Post, Sept. 30, 2012. First part, ea...
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Literacies to Learn | The Bookhenge
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Official course blog for ECI 521: Learning Through Literature with Young Adults. Learned any new literacies yet? Week 1 of the course offered several possibilities. For some, perhaps videoconferencing. Or blogging. Or digital storytelling. Or all three and more. And Cathy Davidson tells her English courses at Duke that the most valuable thing they will learn is to collaborate with others to accomplish a shared goal. Let me announce a slight change in the schedule — both because some of you have exp...
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Time for Summer Reading! | The Bookhenge
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Official course blog for ECI 521: Learning Through Literature with Young Adults. Time for Summer Reading! My goal for this course is to find the sweet spot where openness and choices make the work enjoyable and fulfilling! If you enjoy reading YA books, then you’re in for a treat. If you’ve not yet discovered the joys of YA lit, then you’ll be transformed. YA lit is just the freshest, most innovative, and, yes, the bellwhether for how literature is evolving. Is the book dead? The relationship between lit...
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The Twenty-First Century Difference | The Bookhenge
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Official course blog for ECI 521: Learning Through Literature with Young Adults. The Twenty-First Century Difference. Our grade 11 theme is childhood, but nowhere does it state. Childhood. So this year we read Patricia McCormick’s novel. Which chronicles the childhood, or more specifically the loss of childhood, in a young girl who is trafficked. A powerful story. This is not your grandmother’s English classroom. We’ve only begun the discussion . . . This week, Week 3 (could that be right? Based on what ...
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Elemental Riffs on CCIs | The Bookhenge
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Official course blog for ECI 521: Learning Through Literature with Young Adults. Elemental Riffs on CCIs. So I just posted a description of the collaborative critical inquiry that I hope is helpful as you think the one you’re designing for Stage 2 of The Change Project. Elemental Riffs on Virtually Foolproof.com. Essentially, your assignment is to design a CCI by:. This can serve as your collaborative contribution. You’ll be sharing your CCIs during class in the Bookhenge on November 15. Fill in your det...
