Wednesday, August 30, 2006

A New Spin on the Old Song and Dance

By using contemporary young adult literature in today's English classrooms, will teachers still be able to get the basic concepts of classic literature across to their modern-day students? This is the answer I'll try to discover over the course of the coming semester by comparing modern young adult literature to the classics commonly taught in classrooms.

The sources for my blog include, but are not limited to, the following:
  • The New York Times
  • The Washington Post
  • The Detroit Free Press
  • Yahoo! News
  • Two Google Reader Search Query specifically targeted for "Young Adult Literature" and "Contemporary Literature"