Library & Information Science, Course 262: Resources for Young Adults.
Copyright, 2002 Dr. David Loertscher
Summer 2002
Highly recommended:
Read:
Read at least one of the following:
Topic: Building a repertoire of the best in all forms of media - the good, the bad, the ugly (a book a day keeps the Bs away... plus other stuff)
Read one:
Topic: History of materials/media for young adults
Student Project: Robert Comier (w1cg.pdf)
Resources (w2 started.html)
Week 2a: The Juvenile Novel
Read or experience:
Topic: The Popular Sub Culture - It's a Jungle Out There.
Problem: What is this thing called adolescence? Do the materials written and produced for this group mirror reality and provide possibilities? How can professionals use these materials with teens in school and public libraries?
Read:
One of the following:
Read
Directed at teens: (read one. Suggestions:)
- Covey, Sean. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens : The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide
- Wilkinson, Bruce. Prayer of Jabez for Teens.Multnomah Publishers, 2001
- Hirschfelder, Arlene. Kick Buytts!: A Kid's action Guide to a Tobacco-Free America. Scarcrow, 2001
- Goldstein, Mark A. and Myna Chandler Goldstein. Boys Into Men: Staying Healthy Through the Teen Years. Greenwood, 2000.
- CQ Researcher on Teens in America. CQ Press, 2001
- Grimbol, William R. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Spirituality for Teens. Alpha Books, 2000.
- Woods, Earl and the Tiger Woods Foundation. Start Something: You Can Make a Difference. Simon & Schuster, 2000.
- Vizzini, Ned. teen Angst? Naah... Free Spirit Publishing, 2000
- Johnson, Julie Tallard. The Thundering Years: Rituals and Sacred Wisdom for Teens. Bindu Books, 2001
- Desetta, Al, ed. The Struggle to be Strong: True Stories by Teens About Overcoming Tough Times. Free Sprit Publishing, 2000.
- McGraw, Jay. Life Strategies for Teens. Simon & Schuster, 2000
- Packer, Alex J. Highs!: Over 150 Ways to Feel Really, Really Goodd...Without Alcohol or Other Drugs. Free Sprit Publishing, 2000
- Williams, Terrie. Stay Strong: Simple Life Lessons for Teens, with an Introduction by Queen Latifah. 2001.
- Beroff, Art. and T.R. Adams. How To Be a Teenage Millionaire. Entrepreneur Press, 2000
- Greene, Rebecca. The Teenagers' Guide to School Outside the Box. Free Spirit Press, 2001.
- Morisette, Alanis. Conversations With God for Teens. Hampton Roads, 2001.
- Wilson, Jacqueline. Girls in Love. Delecorte, 2002.
- Jukes, Mavis. Guy Book: An Owner's Manual. Crown, 2002
Directed at adults: (read one. Suggestions:)
- Horn, Wade F. and Carol Keough. New Teen Book: An Z to Z Guide for Parents of 9- to 16-Year Olds. (Merideth Corp. 1999).
- Pollack, William. Real Boys. Owl Books, 1998.
- Mary Pipher. Reviving Ophelia. (book or audiotape); or
- Dave Pelzer A Child Called "It" (Health Communications Inc., 1995) or any of the "It" books; or
- Geoffrey Canada's Reaching Up for Manhood (Becon Presss, 1998)
- Dr. Laura Schlesinger. Parenthood by Proxy : Don't Have Them If You Won't Raise Them (book or audiotape) (2000)
- Hersch, Patricia. A Tribe Apart: A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence. Balantine Books, 1999.
- Panzarine, Susan. A Parent's Guide to the Teen Years: Raising Your 11- to 14-Year-Old in the Age of Chat Rooms and Navel Rings. Facts on File, 2000.
- Drowns, Robert W. and Karen M. Hess. Juvenile Justice. 3rd ed. Wadsworth, 2000.
several issues of magazines aimed at teens
Topics:
Advocacy for Teenagers: A Librarian's Professional Responsibility
Adolescent Development:
Censorship
Resources (w4 personal.html)
Read and view one of the following movie/book tie-ins:
Read:
Paulsen, Gary. Soldier's Heart, 1998. Patricia Polacco. Pink and Say (professor reads this in class)
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 (Houghton Mifflin, 2001)
Any historical fiction title or Western
Topics:
Bringing the Past Alive:
Across time
Across cultures
Across the disciplines
Resources (w5 history.html)
Read one more-serious biography written for teens or a person who teens would be required to read about. Examples:
Strongly recommended: Armstrong, Lance: It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life. 2001. The cycler who continues to with the Tour de France in spite of testicular cancer.Or other samples:
- Ali (the movie) and any biography of Muhamed Ali
- Myers, Walter Dean. Bad Boy: A Memoire. (Harper Collins, 2001). A reflection on his teen years.
- Bruchac, Joseph. Sacajawea. (Harcourt, 2000) A dollar and now a biography of the most famous Indian woman.
- Marrin, Albert. Tatan'ka Iyota'ke: Sitting Bull and His World. (Dutton, 2000) - a new look at the most famous Indian chief.
- Lowry. Lois. Looking Back: A Book of Memories. (Delacorte, 1998) - growing up and now an author.
- Bernstein, Sara Tuvel. The Seamstress (Putnam, 1997) - a Holocaust survivor
- Corbett, Sara. Venus to the Hoop (Doubleday, 1997) - basketball gold in the Atlanta Olympics
- Krakauer, Jon. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Villard, 1997); or, Boukreev, Anatoli. The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest. (St. Martins, 1997); or, Weathers, Beck and Stephen G. Michaud. Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest (Villard Books, 2000)
Read one Pop Biography:
read one grocery store/newstand biography of a hot musician, sports hero, or other celebrity that teens are interested in this season.
Read:
Cormier, Robert. Heroes. Delacorte Press, 1998
Topics:
Appreciating the people of yesterday and today
What is truth in biography?
Heros and Celebrities
Sports (in fact and fiction)
Revisionist biography
Biography in a multicultural/world community
Resources (w6 people.html)
(the world of science and technology from research scientists to medicine to auto mechanics)
View/Interact/Read:
A Beautiful Mind; or, Apollo 13 - the Movie Any nonfiction pop-science book
Topic: The fascinating world of real science
The development of readable science
Who's persuading teens into the sciences?
Resources in Science
Timeline of Scientists (w7a.html) a list of scientists young people might be interested in researching. Other resourses (w7 science.html)
Read/view:
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter IV (of course, you have already read the other three) and you must see the movie (Dec. 01 or DVD summer 02) or;
Philip Pullman. Golden Compass or one of its sequals (the third in the series is out). Lord of the Rings
Spiderman (the movie and you have sampled the comics, right?)
Star Wars, Episode II
any other science fiction or fantasy title enjoyed by teens
any recent science fiction movie you haven't been able to see: A.I., Planet of the Apes; Jurassic Park III, John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars, "Star Trek: Insurrection," or "Star Wars" 20th anniversary new version or "Mission ot Mars", "Contact", or "Lost Worlds" or "Lost in Space" or "Deep Impact" Ghost of Mars, The Imposter, K-Pax, Bones, 13 Ghosts, Time Machine (remake of the classic)
Resources:
Science fiction: Professional articles (w8 scifi.html) and tools to help keep up.
Fantasy: Professional articles (w8 fantasy.html) and tools to help keep up.
Student contributions:
Bibliography of Works by Piers Anthony (w8c.html) Student project: (Aug 98) Loreen Schallon serves up an interesting web site on Time Travel. Lots of good links, too.
(film, theater, dance, art, music, classic literature, poetry)
Read, view, or listen to:
any classic literature and it's recent adaptation to film such as the Importance of Being Ernest, Gosford Park, Sense and Sensibility or Emma or The Crucible; or, Shakespeare in Love (movie), or any recent Shakespeare film/play (such as the movie Hamlet (2000) or "O" (Othello released Aug. 01) - this would be a good place to read your ebook since classics are usually free. any multimedia item of the art world such as an Internet site or videodisc of a art collection.
any play / film adaptation of a play teens should know
any book of poetry aimed at teens or a poet that teens have adopted.
any concert or video concert of a group teens know or should know
Top Ten on radio or most popular on MTV (listen to one hour)
Topics:
Classical literature: See: Marjorie Lewis: Outstanding Books for the College Bound. Chicago: American Library Association, 1996.
Poetry
Short stories
Drama
Movies.
Humor (including TV such as Comedy Central, South Park, The Simpsons, The Tom Green Show)
Music in the Teen World (Alternative, R & B, Rock, Rap, Light Rock, Country, Techno, Grunge)
Resources (w9 culture.html)
Objective: To help budding professionals discover the wide variety of resources and programming strategies to promote inclusion in the modern American experience.
Read:
Hesse, Karen. Witness. Scholastic, 2001. A small Vermont town finds itself under siege by the KuKlux Klan. Jeanne Wakastsuki Houston and James D. Houston. Farewell to Manzanar. (younger readers); or: David Guterson: Snow Falling on Cedars (older readers) (movie out now in video); or, Wolff, Virginia Euwer. Bat 6: A Novel. (Scholastic, 1999) (for grades 5-7); or, Gold, Alison Leslie. A Special Fate: Chiune Sugihara: Hero of the Holocaust. (Scholastic, 2000)
any book for teens set in the culture of your own heritage
any book for teens set in a culture other than your own heritage
Resources (w10 multiculture.html)
Topics:
Multiculturalism or division by culture?
Must we divide by race?
Programming and educational experiences to promote multiculturalism
(Best sellers, Expose', Westerns, Romance, Mysteries, Espionage, Horror, Crime, Public Figures and Celebrities)
Read:
Any book on the bestseller list, fact or fiction, hardback or paperback:
USA Today
Publishers Weekly
New York Times The blockbuster film of the Summer (Star Wars?)
Orther movies recommended: The Sum of All Fears; Moulan Rouge, Gosford Park
any Stephen King
Topics:
Adults - Professional Reading
What are bestsellers, anyway?
Media hype in the world of pop adult fare
Genre-by-genre background
(War, Environment, Politics, Post modernism, Cultural Conflict, Values or Lack Thereof, Deconstructionism)
Read:
any nonfiction adult book of interest to teens (See the Alex Awards done by YALSA for recommendations)
Topics: Is there anything of redeeming value in today's adult world for young adults?
Resources (w12 adultnonfiction.html)
Read:
Peruse and bring to class any title or photocopied sample of a significant reference work of use to teens (see "Youth Services Recommended Reference Sources Compiled by the Youth Services Reference Evaluation Committee of the Suburban Library System, Burr Ridge, Illinois" published in JOYS, Spring, 1996) Peruse at least one Internet reference site or CD-ROM reference title that teens would use for reference.
check out Blanche Woolls and David Loertscher's reference column for The Gale Group at <http://www.galegroup.com/reference/bandd/bandd.html>
Topics:
The world of reference information for teens
Being alert to authority, accuracy, and currency
Resources (w13 reference.html)
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