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Literature for Young Adults
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Spring 2009


Week 1 (1/13-15):
 Introduction to course and setting up your daybook
Bend it Like Beckham Daybook Assignment
  
         
Week 2 (1/20-22):
Bend it Like Beckham

Week 3 (1/27-29):
The Chocolate War
Tarr, "The Absence of Moral Agency in Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War"
If this link doesn't work for you, go to the English Department website, click on Digital Reserve Readings, and follow the links to Coats, 375.

Week 4 (2/3-5):
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Daybook Assignment

1st Paper Due
Project proposal
due.

Week 5 (2/10-12):
Ten Cents a Dance
Trites, "Sex and Power in Adolescent Novels"


Week 6 (2/17-19):

Who am I Without Him?: Short Stories about Girls and the Boys in their Lives
Daybook Assignment


Week 7 (2/24-26):
What They Found: Love on 145th Street
Daybook Assignment

Week 8 (3/3-5):
 
Thirsty
2nd Paper Due

Week 9 (3/17-19):
 
Audrey, Wait
Punk Rock Etiquette

Week 10 (3/24-26):

Feed

Week 11 (3/31-4/2):
Smoke Signals
  
Week 12 (4/7-9):
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
Some Notes on Master Signifiers

Daybook Portfolio Due


Week 13 (4/14-16):
X-Indian Chronicles: Book of Mausape
       
Week 14 (4/21-23):
No class on Tuesday.

Week 15 (4/28-30):
Final Projects Due, with small presentations