Amy Lou Brouner

[Amy Lou Brouner @AmyLouBrouner]

Class discussion for Every Day by Levithan: criticize who Levithan chooses as representative of the general teenage population #YALit

[Amy Lou Brouner @AmyLouBrouner]

Would like to teach Every Day by Levithan and have students add their own chapter about a stranger waking up in their body #YALit

[Amy Lou Brouner @AmyLouBrouner]

Every Day by Levithan has such an amazing message about who you are outside of you body. Also great lessons for understanding others#YALit

[Amy Lou Brouner @AmyLouBrouner]

@MrsErnst001 Could build an entire African Lit course around books just titled "A Long ___" : ALongWalktoWater, ALongWalktoFreedom...#YALit

[Amy Lou Brouner @AmyLouBrouner]

@MrsErnst001 Some people have actually questioned Beah's account! Could discuss if even fictionalized accounts carry their own truth #YALit

[Amy Lou Brouner @AmyLouBrouner]

@mralexrobson not to mention the cross-curricular possibilities (if I remember correctly, there's lots of math and logic in there)

[Amy Lou Brouner @AmyLouBrouner]

In "Leonardo the Terrible Monster," unattractive qualities like tons of teeth or monstrous size are what make these monsters special #YALit

[Amy Lou Brouner @AmyLouBrouner]

The simplicity of "Leonardo the Terrible Monster" forces readers to look at each word and the importance of those in a different color#YALit

[Amy Lou Brouner @AmyLouBrouner]

"Leonardo the Terrible Monster" is a good lesson about the power of words for self-expression and getting out bottled up anger #YALit

[Amy Lou Brouner @AmyLouBrouner]

"Leonardo the Terrible Monster" has a such a good message about being yourself that I think middle/high schoolers need #YALit

[Amy Lou Brouner @AmyLouBrouner]

"Chato's Kitchen" could be an enjoyable introduction to a unit on the immigrant experience #YALit

[Amy Lou Brouner @AmyLouBrouner]

Could discuss names, assumptions, and stereotypes with "Chato's Kitchen" #YALit

[Amy Lou Brouner @AmyLouBrouner]

Chato's Kitchen with its Spanish terms would also be a good text to practice context clues #YALit

[Amy Lou Brouner @AmyLouBrouner]

"Crow Call" would be a beautiful model for students of turning childhood memories into words; could prompt a fun project #YALit

[Amy Lou Brouner @AmyLouBrouner]

Although about a father home from WWII, "Crow Call" could also relate to students with divorced parents/ absent fathers #YALit

[Amy Lou Brouner @AmyLouBrouner]

Crow Call by Lois Lowry would've been good supplement to NumbertheSatars discussion of how age affects how readers view the war#YALit

[Amy Lou Brouner @AmyLouBrouner]

Love Pollan's worry of giving up mother's Passover brisket in YA "Omnivore's Dilemma" because I miss grandma's chicken soup as a veg. #YALit

[Amy Lou Brouner @AmyLouBrouner]

Could tie in Young Reader's "The Omnivore's DIlemma" with a unit on human rights, and how easily we can become desensitized to murder #YALit

[Amy Lou Brouner @AmyLouBrouner]

Young Reader's Omnivore's Dilemma could be in a unit on writing as social activism; also great cross-curricular potentail #YALit

[Amy Lou Brouner @AmyLouBrouner]

Ironic in WordsintheDust: "They're supposed to be the most powerful army in the world, and they have women in command of men" (p. 65) #YALit