english literature resources

Resources for the High School English Curriculum

Cory Laverty

Education Librarian

What you Need to Know

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BlogsBlogs

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Professional Professional developmentdevelopment

Knowledge Knowledge about Reading about Reading

& Writing& Writing

NCTE 21NCTE 21stst- Century Standards for Literacy- Century Standards for Literacy

National Council of Teachers of English. (2008). Towards a definition of 21st-century literacies. http://www.ncte.org/about/gov/129117.htm

• Develop proficiency with technology.• Build relationships to pose and solve problems solve problems collaborativelycollaboratively and cross-culturally.• Design and share information for global communitiesglobal communities.• Manage, analyze and synthesize information.• Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media evaluate multi-media texts.• Attend to ethicalethical responsibilities.

David Warlick: 3Rs Become 4Es

Reading Writing Arithmetic

Exposing knowledge

Decode info. esp. multimediaConstruct digital libraries

Expressing ideas

Competing contentBe compellingUse multimedia

Employing information

Use numbers to solve problemsUse software to manipulate info.

Ethics: Information is power and property: assess, respect, and maintain it

Warlick, D.F. (2004). Redefining literacy for the 21st century. Worthington, OH: Linworth.

Find Literature Search Tip: Limit to Education Library. Use Keyword Boolean.

native and antholog? “short stories” and (canad? or world)“historical fiction” and canad?Austen and letters

What is Boolean Logic?

Rather, who was Boole.

George Boole (1815-1864) was an English mathematician who defined the system of logical operations in 1854 that we now use in computer Programming (and, or , not):

A B

or

and

not

AB

Find Literature for Students

Search Tip: Limit to Education Library. Use Keyword Boolean.

poet? and nature and juvenile“graphic novel” or “comic books”teen reading bibliography

Shakespeare Goes Graphic

Search Tip: In QCAT, limit to the Education Library and do a keyword Boolean search: (“graphic novel?” or comic?) and shakespeare

1986 – Maus: A Survivor’s Tale I:

My Father Bleeds History1991 – Maus: A Survivor’s Tale II:

And Here My Troubles Began1992 – Pulitzer Prize

Maus by Art Spiegelman

Find Reading Lists & Guides

Search Tip: For online lists by topic and grade search NoveList via homepage >> Find Articles >> Databases

Poetry for Teens

Search Tip: In QCAT, limit to the Education Library and do a keyword Boolean search: poetry and (teen? or youth)

A Poem a Day for High Schools

P O E

T R Y

1 8 0

http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/

Do you Know these Children’s Books?Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne

The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka

Find Activities


narrative and activit? (guide or teach?) and mockingbird

How to Search for Articles

Use multiple concepts.

Truncate words.

Include type of materials.

Include level.

Restrict words to subject area.

Library Homepage >> Find Articles >> By Subject >> Education

Find Textbooks: Ministry-approved texts and teacher’s guides: Floor 2. Google “trillium list”.

Search Tip:

Use More Search

Limits: Education

LibraryTextbooks

English literature

creative writing

Find Professional Development Materials


video? and “classroom management”“inclusive classroom”“differentiated instruction”

Find Websites

How do you search the Web?

Find Websites

Laverty, C., Reed, B, & Lee, E. (2008). The “I’m feeling lucky syndrome: Teacher-candidates’ knowledge of web searching. Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research Strategies, 3/1, 1-19.

Q1: Find activities that you could use at the start of the school year with your class.

Q2: Find information that could help you address bullying in your classroom.

Q3: Find information on how to develop good research questions for student projects.

Google Generation?

Williams, P & Rowlands, I. (2008). Information behaviour of the researcher of the future. Commissioned by the British Library and JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) from the Report Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research.

… although young people demonstrate an apparent ease and familiarity with computers, they rely heavily on search engines, view rather than read, and do not possess the critical and analytical skills to assess the information that they find on the web.

Find Websites

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Websites to Note

CBC Archives: http://archives.cbc.ca“For Teachers”: Canadian content, lesson plans, interviews.

Thinkfinity: http://www.thinkfinity.org/Lessons by grade and subject including those from the National Council of Teachers of English.

Media Awareness Network: http://www.media-awareness.ca/

Spark Notes: http://www.sparknotes.com/ Take a look. Check No Fear Shakespeare

New Media Literacies

What are these?

http://newmedialiteracies.org/

MultimediaYouTube: Web Search Strategies in Plain English; Wikis in Plain English

TeacherTube

Search Tip in QCAT: video? and shakespeare

Hobart Shakespeareans

Lessons: Read Write Think

Lessons: Media Awareness Network

diversity popular culturestereotypinggender portrayalnewspapersmagazinesonline hate

Technologies

PicLits: http://www.piclits.com/

Technologies

Wordle: http://www.wordle.net/

Images

On the Upswing by Canadian artist Rob Gonsalves.

(e.g. Imagine a Day by Sarah Thomson)

Sun Sets Sail by Rob Gonsalves

Websites

Spark Notes: http://www.sparknotes.com/ No Fear Shakespeare

Ontario’s Forest of Reading

Blue Spruce: K-3

Silver Birch: 4-6

Red Maple: 7-8

White Pine: 9-12

Golden Oak: Adults learning to read

Evergreen: Adults

http://www.accessola.com/forest2009/

Books on InquiryGo to QCAT to download these materials on inquiry: Think Literacy by subject (OSLA); Research Success (TDSB): grades 9-12; Imagine the Learning (TDSB): grades K-8

Reference Books

Using picture storybooks to teach literary devices: Ref Z1037 H23

Read across Canada: Ref Z1037 A1 R42

Young adult poetry: Ref Z1037 A1 S38

Best books for high school readers: Ref Z1037 G4816

Find Journal Articles

Search Journal indexes:>> Find Articles >> By Subject >> Education

ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) or Education Research Complete

For lesson ideas, differentiated instruction, classroom management.

How to Search an Index

Use multiple concepts.

Restrict words to subject area.

Include type of materials.

Include level.

Journals from NCTE

The English Journal is NCTE's

award-winning journal of

ideas for English language arts

teachers in high schools and middle

schools. It presents information on

the teaching of writing and reading,

literature, and language, and

includes information on how teachers

are putting the latest technologies to

work in their classrooms.

Other English Journals

• PRINT: Change, Education, English Journal, English in Education, English Quarterly, Research in the Teaching of English, The Use of English, Teaching English, Classroom Notes , English Voices from the Middle

• ONLINE: Changing English(ERC), Classroom Notes (NCTE), Education (NCTE), English Journal (NCTE),English Quarterly (CBCA), Research in the Teaching of English (NCTE), Voices from the Middle (NCTE)

Books, Books, Books

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Have you ever been told that you can’t

read a book?

Banned in Ontario by the

Halton Catholic School Board

The

Golden Compass

by Philip Pullman

Justin Richardson and Peter ParnellBanned by the Calgary District School Board

Challenged Series in Canada

HARRY POTTER GOOSEBUMPS

J. K. Rowling R. L. Stine

Teen Fiction Challenged

HEY, DAD! OUTRAGEOUSLY ALICE HOLD FASTBrian Doyle Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Kevin Major

Challenged Classics

CATCHER THE APPRENTICESHIP TO KILL AIN THE RYE OF DUDDY KRAVITZ MOCKINGBIRD

J.D. Salinger Mordecai Richler Harper Lee

Research on School Libraries

Exemplary School Libraries 2009

A study in Ontario schools by Queen’s researchers found that school libraries have the potential to increase literacy and improve student achievement: The key factors that contribute to program success are the:

• Exemplary teaching skills of the teacher-librarian

• Library's positioning as the learning hub of the school

• Principal and system support at the board and Ministry level

Written World

by Rob Gonsalves