Module 10, Session 3, Activity 1

Module 10, Session 3

Activity 1

Teachers must acknowledge that students in alternative education have been assigned reading and writing tasks their entire school lives, with mixed results. What will be different about the assigned readings and accompanying assignments you will ask students to do?

Directions: Compare the list of issues you brainstormed in the Quick Write activity to the list of issues from the web site developed by Dr. Hope Elkins at Indiana University. Check off the books and stories you’ve already read. Add books and stories you’ve found to the categories in which they belong.

ABORTION
Like Sisters on the Homefront Rita Garcia-Williams
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes Chris Crutcher

ABUSE, PHYSICAL
Bruises Anke De Vries (1995)
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes Chris Crutcher
Watcher (The) James Howe

ABUSE, SEXUAL
Lena Jacqueline Woodson (2002)

ABUSE, VERBAL
Bruises Anke De Vries (1995)

AIDs (non-fiction)
It Happened to Nancy (anonymous; diary)
Ryan White: My Own Story Ryan White and Ann Marie Cunningham

ALCOHOLISM
Smack Meredith Burgess
Imitate the Tiger Jan Cheripko

CENSORSHIP
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Nothing But the Truth Avi

DATE RAPE/MOLESTATION
It Happened to Nancy (anonymous; nonfiction diary)
She's Come Undone Wally Lamb

DEATH
Bridge to Terebithia (The) Katherine Paterson
On My Honor Marion Dane Bauer
Separate Peace (A) John Knowles

DISABILITIES, PHYSICAL
Tangerine Edward Bloor
Life at Second Scott Johnson

DIVORCE
Celine Brock Cole

DROP-OUT (HIGH SCHOOL)
Contender Robert Lipsyte

DRUG ABUSE (diaries, anonymous, nonfiction)
Go Ask Alice
Jay's Journal

(fiction)
Letters from the Mountain Sherry Garland
Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich (A) Alice Childress

FOSTER CARE
Pinballs (The) Betsy Byars
Won't Know until I Get There Walter Dean Myers

GANGS
Party Girl Lynne Ewing|
Outsiders (The) S.E. Hinton
Rumblefish S.E. Hinton
Scorpions Walter Dean Myers

GUNS
Scorpions Walter Dean Myers
Swallowing Stones Joyce MacDonald

HOMELESSNESS
December Stillness Mary Downing Hahn
Asphalt Angels Ineke Holtwijk
Where the Heart Is Billie Letts
Where's Home Jonahan London
Lena Jacqueline Woodson

HOMOSEXUALITY
Am I Blue? ed. Marion Dane Bauer
Baby Bebop Francesca Block
Ironman Chris Crutcher
Reflections of a Rock Lobster Aaron Fricke
Annie on my Mind Nancy Garden
IDENTITY (Search forreligious/spiritual)
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret Judy Blume
I Heard the Owl Call My Name Margaret Craven
Ms. Isabelle Cornell, Herself Carol Farley
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank
Fine White Dust (A) Cynthia Rylant

(ethnic/cultural)

Bless Me, Ultima Rudolpho Anaya
Children of the River Linda Crew
Dakota Dream James Bennett
Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George

ILLEGITIMACY

ILLITERACY
Send No Blessings

JUVENILE DELIQUENCY/CRIME
Bad Jean Ferris
Letters from the Inside John Marsden
Monster Walter Dean Myers
Catcher in the Rye (The) J.D. Salinger

LEARNING DISABILITIES
Summer of the Swans Betsy Byars

MARRIAGE (TEEN)
Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones Ann Head

MENTAL ILLNESS (schizophrenia, suicide)
I Know this Much Is True Wally Lamb

(obsessive/compulsive disorder)
Kissing Doorknobs Terry Spencer

(post traumatic shock syndrome)
So Much to Tell You John Marsden

(self-mutilation)
Crosses Shelley Stoehr

(other mental illness)
Gone from Home Angela Johnson

OBESITY, EATING DISORDERS
Blubber Judy Blume
Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack M.E. Kerr
She's Come Undone Wally Lamb
Slot Machine Chris Lynch

PARENTS (PROBLEM) (absentee/abandonment)
Name Me Nobody Lois-Ann Yamanaka
A Solitary Blue Cynthia Voigt

(father-son problems)

Somewhere in the Darkness Walter Dean Myers

(father-daughter problems)
Shizuko's Daughter Kyoko Mori

(mother-daughter problems)
Amy and Isabelle Elizabeth Strout

POVERTY
Make Lemonade

PREGNANCY (TEEN)
Like Sisters on the Homefront Rita Garcia-Williams
What Kind of Love? : The Diary of a Pregnant Teenager Sheila Cole

PREJUDICE (religious)
Two Suns in the Sky Miriam Bat-Ami
Upon the Head of a Goat Aranka Siegel

(ethnic/racial)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou
Summer of My German Soldier Bette Greene
Necessary Roughness Marie G. Lee
If I Should Die Before I Wake Han Nolan
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred Taylor
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee

PUBERTY/SEXUAL AWAKENING
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret Judy Blume
Forever Judy Blume
Summer Sisters Judy Blume
Sex Education Jenny Davis
She's Come Undone Wally Lamb
Under the Mermaid Angel Martha Moore

REBELLION (individual)
Catcher in the Rye (The) J.D. Salinger
Chocolate War (The) Robert Cormier

(group)
Downriver Will Hobbs

SIBLING RIVALRY
Jacob Have I Loved Katherine Paterson
Tangerine Edward Bloor

SPORTS ISSUES(non-fiction)
Friday Night Lights H.G. and Buzz Bissinger

(fiction)
Tangerine Edward Bloor
Roughnecks Thomas Cohen
Hoops Walter Dean Myers
Wrestling Sturbridge Rich Wallace

SUICIDE
Chinese Handcuffs Chris Crutcher

SURVIVAL
Girl in the Box (The) Ouida Sebestyen
Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Julie of the Wolves
Lord of the Flies William Golding
Follow the River James Alexander Thom

VANDALISM/VIOLENCE
We All Fall Down Robert Cormier