Week 1 recap

Thank you for a wonderful first class!
I'm very eager to journey through the semester with you, to learn with and from you. You all are an impressive bunch!

I will be making a post like this after each class session together (recapping, reflecting, clarifying, posting links etc). I encourage you to sign up to this blog's feed so that you can be notified when there's a new post (see side gadget for how to do this).

In an effort to help you in your writing of your autobiographical poem, I posted the 5 poems we read in class on our ANGEL site and below, have put in the links to the poems we tried to listen to in class:

George Ella Lyon's reading of "Where I'm From":
http://www.georgeellalyon.com/where.html

Nikki Giovanni's reading of "Nikki Rosa":
http://nikki-giovanni.com/nikkirosa.shtml

On the side of this blog, I'll be posting links to other blogs and websites that focus on children's/YA literature. There's so much great stuff out there! Have fun exploring!

If you have questions about the class/assignments/things posted on the blog that you think others in the class might have and/or be interested in hearing a response to, I encourage you to post a comment on this blog so that others can read it.