Calendar


 * Calendar is incomplete Megan. **


 * Day 1:** Students will be introduced to the unit. They will receive information about their final project today, as well, to better scaffold their learning. They will begin reading //Looking for Alaska//, which will be finished by Day 5.
 * Text Used:** //Looking for Alaska// by John Green

"How To Make A Girl: Female Sexuality in Young Adult Literature" by Ann Elizabeth Younger "The Great American Morp" by John Green
 * Day 2:** In class, we will go over the essay, "How To Make A Girl: Female Sexuality in Young Adult Literature" by Ann Elizabeth Younger. Important sections will be pre-selected to ensure ease of the lesson. As a class, we will read and begin to understand how female sexuality is shaped in Young Adult Literature. Students will read the short story, "The Great American Morp" by John Green for homework.
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Students will select their Lit Circle groups in class today. Each group will focus on reading three novels from one author. Each of the groups will contain no more than four students and each group will focus on a different author. The groups will meet once a week to discuss progress in their novels. The group work they do will be used in their final assignment. ** Who are some of the authors you're recommending? **
 * Day 3:** Students will be half way done with //Looking for Alaska//. Students will learn about Feminist theory in class (Lesson Three). For homework, they will continue to read //Looking for Alaska.// As they are almost complete, they will also watch a YouTube video Green made about the content of //Looking for Alaska// for homework. They will take notes and mark important parts of the video they wish to discuss in class.
 * Text Used:** "I Am Not A Pornographer" YouTube video by John Green


 * Day 4:** In class today, we will discuss the video students watched for homework. They should be able to critically examine why the content of the novel was challenged. They will discuss in small groups how sexuality is portrayed in the novel. Students will then share out and have a mature discussion about what Green says in the video and what he is saying in the novel .Students should be almost done with //Looking for Alaska// and will come to class on Day 5 prepared to discuss the novel in full.
 * Text Used:** "I Am Not A Pornographer" YouTube video by John Green


 * Day 5:** Students will have finished //Looking for Alaska// and will come to class with their book annotated on sticky notes. Students will be broken up into Socratic seminar groups for the first fifteen minutes of class. The class will then get in a large circle where we will discuss the outcomes of the novel juxtaposed with the construction of characters. Students can discuss events and specifics from the novel, but will begin to shift their discussions of a novel towards a more critical approach. They will examine the novel through Feminist theory and societal norms placed on the characters. They will question what Green is saying to adolescents and how and why he is saying it.
 * Text Used:** //Looking for Alaska// by John Green

//Will Grayson, Will Grayson// by John Green and David Levithan // Will Grayson, Will Grayson // Booklist [|review] by John Peters
 * Day 6:** Students will begin the second John Green novel this week, //Will Grayson, Will Grayson//. In class today, we will discuss some basics of the novel to properly prepare students to begin reading. Students will read a brief book review (that contains no spoilers) in class and discuss their thoughts on how the novel may progress based on their reading of previous works of fiction by John Green.
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"Landscapes of City and Self: Place and Identity in Urban Young Adult Literature" by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas "Developing students' critical literacy: Exploring identity construction in young adult literature." by Thomas W. Bean and Karen Moni
 * Day 7:** In class today, we will read the essay on how young adults find identity in urban environments. The students will use this knowledge to understand how a character is developed in a novel. Students will also look at important passages from the essay, " Developing students' critical literacy: Exploring identity construction in young adult literature." by Thomas W. Bean and Karen Moni. For homework, students will read the short story "Freak the Geek" by John Green from the anthology //Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd.//
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 * Day 8:** Students should be half way done with the novel. In class today, we will discuss the short story, "Freak the Geek", and also formally discuss character development (Lesson Two). Students will be in Socratic seminar for a portion of class and share out their understanding of character development as seen through the short story. They will begin to apply this knowledge to their reading of the two full-length novels they've been reading.
 * Text Used:** "Freak the Geek" by John Green from //Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd.//


 * Day 9:** Students will come to class today and watch a short video by John Green about //Will Grayson, Will Grayson//. We will discuss how identity is being constructed in the novel. We will also begin a discussion on how homosexuality is portrayed in the novel.
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