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Confronting Boys and Literacy

"Teacher after teacher today is throwing up her or his hands saying, 'They just won’t read.' There’s a reason for it. Ask the boys. They know. They’ll tell you, although sometimes not eloquently. Don’t write off the male students because they tell you 'the book sucks.' Often, they’re right. At least it did as a tool to teach boys to read and to love doing so." (Kevin R. St. Jarre, English Journal, January 2008, 15-16)

Sunday, February 8, 2009

My February 7, 2009, Op-Ed in The Greenville News

Schools must reflect society we envision
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Recommended Resources and Reading

  • AAUW Sees No Educational Crisis for Boys
  • Academic Literacy in the English Classroom
  • Best Practice, Third Edition
  • Disappearing Act Where Have the Men Gone? No Place Good
  • Don’t Blame the Boys: We’re Giving Them Girly Books
  • Educational Leadership (September 2006)
  • Guys Read
  • It's a Guy Thing
  • Jeffrey Wilhelm
  • Michael Smith
  • NASSPE
  • Randy Bomer
  • Readicide
  • Reading Next
  • SAT Data
  • See more articles from The Washington Post Study Casts Doubt On the 'Boy Crisis'; Improving Test Scores Cut Into Girls' Lead
  • Teaching Reading to Black Adolescent Males
  • Teaching to Biological Gender Preferences in an All-Boys Catholic School
  • Teenage Boys and High School English
  • The Minds of Boys: Saving Our Sons From Falling Behind in School and Life
  • The Trouble with Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parents and Educators Must Do
  • Using the Writer's Notebook in Grades 3-8: A Teacher's Guide
  • Why Adolescent Literacy Matters
  • Writing Next

Recommended Writers

  • Arthur C. Clarke
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • James Dickey
  • John Irving
  • Kurt Vonnegut
  • Paul Theroux
  • Ralph Ellison
  • Sherman Alexie
  • Walter Dean Myers

Graphic Novels and Comics

  • Batman
  • BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS
  • BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT STRIKES AGAIN
  • BATMAN: YEAR ONE
  • Comics in Education: Gene Yang
  • Comics in the Classroom
  • Conan
  • Daredevil
  • DC Comics: 30 Essential Graphic Novels
  • Give It Up: And Other Short Stories, Kafka
  • Graphic Novels: Resources (U W-M)
  • History of Comic Books
  • no flying no tights for teens
  • Scott McCloud
  • Shake Girl: The Graphic Novel
  • Spider-Man
  • The Metamorphosis, Kafka
  • V for Vendetta
  • V for Vendetta Shrine
  • V for Vendetta: Annotations
  • Watchmen
  • Will Eisner

Nonfiction

  • A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut
  • Fates Worse Than Death, Kurt Vonnegut
  • Palm Sunday, Kurt Vonnegut
  • Scientific American
  • Sports Illustrated
  • Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons, Kurt Vonnegut

Reconsidering Poverty and Literacy

  • Child poverty in rich countries 2005
  • Experiences of poverty and educational disadvantage
  • Hypocrisy reigns in fixing blame for health, school ills
  • JEC: The Hidden Dimensions of Poverty
  • Miseducating Teachers about the Poor: A Critical Analysis of Ruby Payne's Claims about Poverty
  • Poverty and Education: A Critical Analysis of the Ruby Payne Phenomenon
  • Return of the Deficit
  • The Class-Consciousness Raiser
  • The Classist Underpinnings of Ruby Payne's Framework
  • What These Children Are Like
  • What We All (Supposedly) Know about the Poor: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Ruby Payne’s ‘Framework’

NCTE Resources

  • Swish! Pow! Whack! Teaching Onomatopoeia Through Sports Poetry (Lesson plan)
  • Boys Read: Considering Courage in Novels (Lesson plan)
  • What We Know About Adolescent Literacy
  • Adolescent Literacy

Additional Links: P. L. Thomas

  • "the axe for the frozen sea within us"
  • 21st Century Literacy (with Nita Schmidt)
  • Confronting the Text, Confronting the World
  • Conventional Language
  • Furman University Education Department
  • Life without Principle
  • Numbers Games
  • Teaching Writing Primer
  • Young Adult Literature

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Experience and Education, John Dewey (1938)

What avail is it to win prescribed amounts of information about geography and history, to win ability to read and write, if in the process the individual loses his own soul: loses his appreciation of things worth while, of the values to which these things are relative; if he loses desire to apply what he has learned and, above all, loses the ability to extract meaning from his future experiences as they occur? (p. 49)