Resources

Selected published bibliographies (with subject and genre indexes) in the Curriculum Resource Lab

• Best Books for Young Adults by Betty Carter located in Curriculum Reference Z1037 .C34
• Best Books for Young Adult Readers by Stephen Calvert located in Curriculum Reference Z1037 .C2223 (see section on historical novels in table of contents)
• Radical Reads: 101 Young Adult Novels on the Edge by Joni Bodart located in Curriculum Reference Z1037 B65
• Best Books for Middle School and Junior High Readers by John Gillespie and Catherine Barr located in Curriculum Reference Z1037 .G482 (see section on historical novels in table of contents)
• Hearing All the Voices: Multicultural Books for Adolescents by Mary Ann Darby and Miki Pryne located in Curriculum Reference Z1037 .A1 D18
• Lesbian and Gay Voices: An Annotated Bibliogrpahy and Guide to Literature for Children and Young Adults by Frances Ann Day located in Curriculum Reference Z1037 .D24
• The World's Best Thin Books: What to Read When Yor Book Report Is Due Tomorrow by Joni Richards Bodart located in Curriculum Reference at Z1037 .B66
• Teen Genreflecting by Diana Tixier Herald located in Curriculum Reference at Z1232.H47 (has section on graphic novels)

Books about how to deal with censorship and challenged books in the schools:

• Teaching Banned Books by the American Library Association located in Curriculum Lab at C.L.R./A5lt
• Rationales for Challenged Books by National Council of Teachers of English located in the Curriculum Lab at Non-Print 025.2 /R236 (this is a CD-ROM)
• Caught Off Guard: Teachers Rethinking Censorship and Controversy by Ellen Brinkley located in the Curriculum Lab at C.II. /A44ca
• Preserving Intellectual Freedom: Fighting Censorship in our Schools by National Council of Teachers of English located in the Curriculum Lab at C.L.L./N27p

Books about teaching Shakespeare and other canonical texts:

• Romeo and Juliet: Plainspoken by Lipson and Lipson in Curriculum stacks at C.Ls. l G64r
• Teaching Shakespeare Today by Davis and Salomone in Curriculum stacks at C.Ls.l N27t
• Adolescent Literature As a Complement to the Classics by Kaywell (four volumes) in Curriculum stacks at C. Ls.l C55ac

Bibliographies created by the Curriculum Resources Lab: http://www.education.uiowa.edu/crl/bibliographies/index.html

Tools for finding poems, short stories, or plays that are related to a particular theme for your final project (Note: these tools are in the Main Library Reference Collection):

• Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry REF PN 4321 .G8
• Short Story Index: REF Z5917 .S5 C62
• Play Index: REF Z5781 .P6
  

Article about teaching literature:

Hull, Glynda and Rose, Mike. (1990). "'This Wooden Shack Place': The Logic of an Unconventional Reading." Available at http://www.writingproject.org/downloads/csw/OP22.pdf (also available in College Composition and Communication, 41 (3), 287-298).

Sample reading autobiographies (from previous semesters with different instructors):

• Sample 1
• Sample 2
• Sample 3
• Sample 4

Sample final teaching projects (from previous semesters with different instructors; please remember that your assignment's organization and requirements are slightly different. Use these to get a rough idea about content; do not model your project after these. Look to the assignment sheet for specific instructions)

• Sample 1
• Sample 2
• Sample 3

One of you asked to see an example of a poster for a poster session; below is a thumbnail of one I did for a poster presentation a few years ago. (I cropped myself out so that you just see the poster.) Click on the thumbnail to see a larger image.