Sunday, July 22, 2018

Writing with Weetzie

 Respond to the article (but more broadly to the question of how YA literature might support writing instruction) on your blog. It's fine to use the bullet point method that we used before. I would love to see you use the article as a springboard for your own thinking/ideas about YA and writing.
  • Students could write their own capturing first line of a novel
  • Give creative choices in writing prompts about novels
  • Mentor texts as a way of exposing writers to a variety of forms
  • Speak as a mentor text for writing in vignettes (Monroe,2005, p.50)
  • Students could write from different points of view using a mentor text 
  • Young adult literature speaks to students about issues they care about (Monroe, 2005, p. 54)
  • Analyzing the author's message to the audience can help students understand how to write for specific audiences in their own writing
  • Mentor texts with a first person narrator can inspire voice in our students
  • First person narrator mentor texts: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson and The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

References
Monroe, M. L. (2005). Writing with Weetzie: Using Young Adult Literature in the Composition Classroom. Language Arts Journal of Michigan, 21(2)
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  1. HeidiJuly 28, 2018 at 5:14 PM

    I love what you've done here: use the reading to think about what this kind of writing instruction might look like. I think you've done a lovely job of thinking about ways that YA can be useful (first person narrative mentor text for SURE!) in moving writing instruction forward. Nice job!

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