2009 Teens’ Top Ten Nominations

 

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The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) has announced the 2009 Teens’ Top Ten Nominations.  Teens across the country are invited to read the twenty-five titles and vote on their three favorites during YALSA’s Teen Read Week which will be held October 18-24, 2009.

These are the books you should encourage your teens to be reading in preparation for Teen Read Week:

Cashore, Kristin   Graceling

Cast, Kristin & P.C.   Untamed

Clare, Cassandra    City of Ashes

Collins, Suzanne   The Hunger Games

Fukui, Isamu   Truancy

Fukui, Isamu   Truancy:  Origins

Gaiman, Neil   The Graveyard Book

Green, John   Paper Towns

Harris, Joanne   Runemarks

Hopkins, Ellen   Identical

Lockhart, E.   The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

Marriott, Zoe   Daughter of the Flames

McMann, Lisa   Wake

Meyer, Stephenie   Breaking Dawn

Moran, Katy   Bloodline

Ness, Patrick   The Knife of Never Letting Go

Noel, Alyson   Evermore

Palmer, Robin   Geek Charming

Pierce, Tamora   Melting Stones

Scott, Elizabeth   Living Dead Girl

Smith, Cynthia Leitich   Eternal

Smith, Sherri L.   Flygirl

Weingarten, Lynn  Wherever Nina Lies

Werlin, Nancy   Impossible

Yee, Lisa   Absolutely Maybe

 Past Teens Top Ten lists from 2003 – 2008 are available here.

Hawk Library BookRap Contest

 

   Check out this awesome video and contest created by Cheryl Laucher, media specialist at Springs Woods Middle School in Houston, Texas.  

   Cheryl is the author of the blog La Bibliotecaria Loca and one creative lady!  Can’t wait to see what her students create.

   As Cheryl says, “Check out your ‘brary ’cause your visit’s overdue!”

Another Po Folk* Resource

I found an interesting post  from Bright Ideas in my Google Reader this morning on Teacher’s TV.  The site is operated by Education Digital, an independent media consortium in London.  The site offers thousands of educational programs both online and on tv.

Since this is National Poetry Month, I thought I would focus on the resources the site offered on poetry.  One video, Resource Review -Secondary English, discussed three online resources and how they were used in the classrooom. One interesting one that was new to me is the BBC’s GCSE Bitesize – English – Poetry Slideshow.   

Although the concept of creating a slideshow with images to accompany the reading of a poem is not new, I found the teachers’ discussion to be interesting.  One teacher disliked how literal the images were – which could detract from the overall meaning of the poem.  Another disliked that only one line of a poem was displayed underneath an image; she would prefer that the entire poem be displayed on the side as the images were shown. 

The number of poems on the website is limited, but some include more than just the slideshow. “Dulce Et Decorum Est,” for example gives background information on World War I, helping to place it in context for students. 

A contest that combines celebrating National School Library Month and National Poetry Month idea:  students create slideshows using Photostory that can be shown during the last week in April. 

 

* Po folk = poetry folk, those with poetry in their souls

R U a Po Folk?

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I’m a Po Folk, r u? 

“Po folk” is poet Allan Wolf’s term for those who have poet’s souls.  “No po”….well…self-explanatory.  So, if you’re a Po Folk,  this is your month to celebrate!  Try one  or more of these multimedia ways to bring poetry to life:

Videos

• Watch outstanding student performances for Poetry Out Loud contests.
• Watch videos of Americans reading and discussing their favorite poems in the Favorite Poem Project.

Audio

• Listen to poems read by a variety of people (including Anthony Hopkins, James Earl Jones, Alyssa Milano, and N. Scott Momaday)
• Listen to Gwendolyn Brooks’ explanation and reading of “We Real Cool” along with other poems found here

Web  2.0 Tools for Writing Your Own Poetry

• Write your own magnetic poem and send to a friend
• Be inspired by pictures and write a poem
• Fill in the blanks, submit, viola – poem!
• Write and print out a shape poem from Scholastic

 

Other

Get your poetry fix on your cell phone:  www.poets.org/m

Enter your own poetry poster in the Free Verse Project sponsored by poets.org