Welcome!

This class will explore a new kind of fiction that is rising up from the cultural and socio economic experience of the last few generations: Urban Literature.

This class is not a reading class, but a seminar, where students drive the direction of the discussion.


These are a few of elements/items that will be covered/explored:
-Elements that make up any story
-Elements more specific to the genre
-Close read (how to analyze literature) of a class novel
-Authors who have made Urban Literature a "home"
-Writing a review for a book within the genre.

A Little History....
(more here to come)

Standards:

READING LEVEL 3

RL.RS.03.04

Continues to use decoding skills and context clues to make meaning in text.

RL.ST.03.01

Continues to use active reading strategies such as underlining, highlighting, asking questions,

defining words, etc.

Advanced • Student utilizes marked text to respond and use evidence from text

Proficient• Student demonstrates use of active reading strategies (underlining, highlighting, asking questions, or defining words)

RL.ST.03.02

Makes connections from the text to other text, self, or world.

Advanced• Responds to text using specific evidence to support assertions OR leads a peer conference giving specific suggestions on improving peer's response.

Proficient• Consistently responds to text logically using relevant and appropriate details to make connections to self, another text, or the world.

RL.ST.03.03

Identifies the literary elements plot, character, setting, conflict, and theme.

Advanced• Teaches others about literary elements

Proficient• Consistently identifies plot characters, setting, conflict, and theme

RL.ST.03.04

Summarizes information or ideas from a text

Advanced• Teaches others how to summarize a text OR Summarizes concisely

Proficient• Summarizes information or ideas from text using literary elements

RL.ST.03.06

Locates evidence in text and from related experiences to support understanding of theme.

Advanced• Uses specific evidence from the text and personal experiences to analyze theme

Proficient• Consistently uses specific evidence from the text or related experiences from life to support understanding of theme

RL.ST.03.07

Reads independently for a variety of purposes exploring new genres (biographies, folktales,

mythology, etc.).

Advanced• All of proficient AND Consistently uses evidence in response OR Teaches others about the genres that were read independently

Proficient• Appropriately responds to a variety of genres through discussion, writing, storytelling, and/or performance

RL.ST.03.08

Continues to practice visualizing while interacting with a text.

Advanced•Teaches others about texts using visualization

Proficient• Consistently interacts with literary element(s) through the use of visualization

Developing

Emerging

RL.ST.03.09

Demonstrates ability to draw conclusions using inference, predictions, and cause and effect.

Advanced• Draws conclusions stating evidence from the text using inference, predictions, and cause/effect

Proficient• Draws conclusions from text using inference, prediction, and/or cause/effect relationships

Developing

Emerging

RL.FL.03.01.01

Reads aloud poetry and/or plays, continuing to use fluency skills.

Advanced• Shows advanced skills on rubric below OR meets criteria of all three rows, pushing beyond the criteria for level 3

Proficient• Consistently practices reading fluency using the criteria in the first row below