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Young People Are Reading More Than You
 * Recent article from McSweeney's:**


 * Cheryl McLean's Powerpoints:**


 * Cheryl's Recommended Texts:**

Anne Peel, Teaching Old Book/New Tricks
 * Guest Speaker Powerpoints:**

Christine Norris, World Building in Fantasy:


 * Ray Ricketts's Powerpoints:**


 * 2011 NJCH YAA grad paper docs:**


 * Misc. writing docs:**

Hooray For YA: Teen Novels For Readers Of All Ages

"Darkness Too Visible" "Better to Light a Candle than to Curse the Darkness" "Seeing Teenagers As We Wish They Were: The Debate Over YA Fiction" "My Take on the Wall Street Journal Article About YA " "Is YA Fiction Too Dark?" (radio)
 * Recent debate about YAA Lit:**

[|MJWeiss JohnnyAppleseed.pdf] [|Orphan_Stories-1.doc] [|Why I Teach Adol Lit.pdf] [|pratt_mary_louise_travel_writing_intro.pdf] ||
 * **Misc. secondary articles** || [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/_/73z846vv/i/bTR.gif width="8" height="8"]] ||
 * [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png width="32" height="32" link="http://comingofageseminar.wikispaces.com/file/view/Hunt+Evades+Theorists.PDF"]] [|Hunt Evades Theorists.PDF]

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
 * A graphic novel by Alison Bechdel:**
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media type="custom" key="10111837" C.J. Pascoe, Dude You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School
 * A scholarly ethnographic study:**

Samuel Johnson, Rambler No. 4 (full text)
 * Samuel Johnson on modern fiction:**

media type="custom" key="10111885" //Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity//. Dir. Sut Jhally. Perf. Jackson Katz. Media Education Foundation, 1999. Tough Guise transcript Tough Guise study guide
 * //Tough Guise// video segments and additional material: **

Longreads.com Longform.org
 * Great links to longer magazine and newspaper articles:**

Video on Changing Education Paradigms

[|National Institute for the Humanities] [|Gilder Lehman Institute] [|Fulbright-Hays Program] [|Foundation for Teaching Economics] [|National Consortium for Teaching About Asia] [|Institute for Global Studies] Rutgers Summer AP English Institute
 * Additional summer seminar opportunities:**

[|Faculty Focus newsletter] [|Intelligent & Motivating Professional Development]
 * Other resources:**

Agenda behind Teacher Union-Bashing
 * Guardian (UK) article on teachers and unions in the US:**

How to Stop Harrassment in the Hallway in Three Minutes Fremd High School R-word Video Scholastic Book Clubs

Graphic Novels in the Classroom

[|Making Room for Graphic Novels]