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Honestly I don’t disagree with anything Ripp says about graphic novels. I did think it was weird to read this after reading Passionate Readers where she suggests counting graphic novels as 1/2 or 1/4 of a book towards a student’s end of year reading goal, but I also know that people can change their minds.Continue reading “Blog Post #6”

I feel like all of my opinions about booktok and things like it need to be prefaced by my pretty negative personal experiences with social media. Growing up I did not have unmonitored internet access until I was 14, which was pretty late for the time. While the rest of my friends were lying aboutContinue reading “Blog Post #5”

I desperately want to make independent, self selected reading happen in my classroom next year. During my student teaching, independent reading is something that just didn’t happen for a lot of reasons: 1.) I didn’t have books to give to students and 2.) Even if I had books, hybrid teaching and quarantines meant that studentsContinue reading “Blog Post #4 Reflection on Passionate Readers by Pernille Ripp”

Honestly I pretty much agree with and support everything that Buehler has to say about YA pedagogy. I am beyond excited that the school I am working at in the Fall seems to be really supportive of using YA in the classroom. My team and I have two units planned that use YA as theContinue reading “Blog Post #2”

This summer I really want to focus on building my classroom library for the upcoming school year. I have already done a lot of preliminary work on this– making lists, driving to every secondhand bookstore in the Athens area, raiding my parent’s house (and my friends parent’s houses) for those books that were so goodContinue reading “Blog Post #1”