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Type of literature

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Genre

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A tool for teaching, perhaps too much “preachy”

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Didactic

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Substantial body of important literature (the great books)

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Canon

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Changing one’s language based on context

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Code switching

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You are the only one alive and everyone else is an illusion

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Solipsism

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Another word for negative

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Pejorative

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Heterosexual/homosexual rating scale

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Kinsey scale

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‘what it means’ - author’s intent (author’s bio and other writings) type of criticism

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Traditional Lit. Criticism

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Work itself, nothing else needed - ‘well-wrought-urn’ (close readings) type of criticism

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New Criticism

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Gender based theory

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Feminist Theory

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Sexuality based - critically think what text is saying about sexuality - theory

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Queer Theory

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Race is constructed theory

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Critical Race Theory

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Chicanola studies (Hispanic authors)

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Ethnic studies

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What able person or not able person ‘looks’ like

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Disability studies

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Meaning/collaboration between reader and the text

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Reader-Response Criticism

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“The closet” and the journey of discovering sexuality

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Coming-out-narrative

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Building story - building the self

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Bildungsroman

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Story of a character’s maturation

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Coming of Age

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Implied claim about what the text is making (how the world works or about being human)

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Theme

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Present message in today’s world. Often coming of age stories. Standing up for how you are.

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Young Adult Literature

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Comparison of 2 unlike things that doesn’t use like or as

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Metaphor

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Uses direct comparison language such as like or as

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Simile

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A concrete thing standing in for an abstract idea

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Symbol

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Who wrote the hate you give

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Angie Thomas

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Who wrote Ari and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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Benjamin Sáenz

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Who wrote turtles all the down

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John Green

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Discusses taboo or otherwise difficult subjects (could happen to anyone in life)

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Realistic Fiction

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Travel through dimensions/ math and science tie together

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Science Fiction

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Ways that you should act (social norms)

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Mores

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Reference to another work inside of your work

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Allusion

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Repeats object throughout the story

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Motif

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What are the YA literature criteria

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Written about teenagers - young adult main character - 1st person POV
Tackling the adult issues in teenage lives
Progress - life lessons - internal conflict
The journey towards identity
Limited number of characters - simple but emotionally complicated
keep it under R-rating - some content not discussed

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Who wrote A Wrinkle in Time

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Madeleine L’Engle

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Who wrote When You Reach Me

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Rebecca Stead

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Who wrote the outsiders

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S.E. Hinton

36
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Who wrote The Pigman

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Paul Zindel

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Who wrote A Critical Apparatus

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Michael Cart

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What is the thesis of A Critical Apparatus?

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The critical apparatus is important to understand readings like YA lit writings

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Who wrote Disability Narrative Theory and YA of Mental Illness

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Diane Scrofano

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What is the thesis the disability narrative theory

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Write more novels about mental illness for children to relate to and read

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Who wrote The New Realism

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Maia Mertz

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What is the thesis of the new realism

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To reevaluate controversial novels to determine if they’re traditional or not

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Who wrote YA…Defining the Genre

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Jonathan Stephen

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What is the thesis of YA… Defining the Genre

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Different threads make a YA book apart of the genre

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What is the hate you give about

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African American teenagers and police brutality and protests turned into riot
Starr, Khalil, Seven, Kenya, Devante, Chris

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What is the plot of Ari and Dante

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Discovering love, homosexuality, birds, coming out story
Aristotle and Dante

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What is the plot of turtles all the way down

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OCD and anxiety, mystery murder, voices in head
Aza, Daisy, Davis

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What is the plot of a wrinkle in time

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Time travel to save father, love and anger, family and friends, IT
Meg, Charles Wallace, Calvin, Mrs. Whatsit, Who, Which, Aunt Beast

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What is the plot of the outsiders

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Greasers vs Socs rivalry, family, church rescue, fighting, death
Ponyboy, Johnny, Two Bit, Dally, Darry, Sodapop, Bob, etc.

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What is the plot of when you reach me

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Wrinkle in time book connection, time travel, $20,000 pyramid, friends, secret notes
Miranda, Marcus = laughing man, Sal

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What is the plot of the Pigman

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Prank call turned into friendship, lying, monkey at the zoo, pig figurines, party, heart attack, Death
Lorraine, John, Mr. Pignati, Dennis and Norton, Conchetta

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