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Carlin Borsheim-Black – English Journal, 2015
Drawing on scholarship in critical youth studies (CYS), students in the author's young adult literature (YAL) course for English teacher candidates critically analyze popular culture and YAL texts in ways that make visible dominant and deficit ideas about adolescents/ce and help teacher candidates imagine alternative expectations for their future…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Young Adults, Adolescent Literature, Reading Assignments
Hamilton, Buffy J. – School Library Monthly, 2012
Since 2009, the author has been using an activity that she calls "book tasting" to help teens select books for independent reading assignments. While she is sure she is not the first to do this kind of activity, the term "book tasting" seems to appeal to the teens. Book tasting has been extremely successful in pairing up students with texts that…
Descriptors: Adolescents, World Literature, Multiple Literacies, Reading Assignments