Students needing special accommodations should contact the instructor. Subject Matter standards for specialty in preprimary education or middle level academic field. Understand the literacy needs of young adolescents encompassing the need to comprehend narrative and technical writing, the need to successfully access available databases, the need to write at an interactive level including a variety of personal formats, and the ability to interact on all cognitive levels through writing. Students read a minimum of eight novels and complete a book card for each which contains author, title, publisher, the developmental age for which the book is written, plot, summary, sample of professional review of the book, and the student's own review Students participate in a small group that does research on a particular matter of censorship as it bears on young adult literature and teaching of the same. Groups report findings at the end of the term.
Students present two informal book talks, five minutes in length.
20 points each-120 total Evaluated on a 40 point scale 20 points for each card Censorship project is evaluated on a 100 point scale.