Reading Rural YAL

This first episode provides a summary of and reading of the first pages of Kekla Magoon’s award-winning novel.

**It has come to my attention that I did not pronounce Magoon’s name correctly in this first video. Now that I know better I will do better and get it right in subsequent videos.

In this episode I discuss a few ideas and approaches to teaching Sadie.

For more information on teaching place through arts-integration with Sadie

For more information on using arts-integration with YAL checkout this excellent book

In this episode, I discuss my reaction to the text as a rural reader and share some things that I appreciated about the book.

This episode discusses and analyzes the role of rurality and place in Sadie.

This is the inaugural four-part deep dive that paved the way for all the other episodes. Each subsequent series follows this structure – a summary video and reading of the first pages; an analysis of place in the text; my reaction as a rural reader; and some teaching ideas for folks interested in adding it to their instruction.

This episode includes a summary of Sadie and reading of the first pages.

I talk about some ideas for teaching The Serpent King in secondary English language arts classrooms.

I was so fortunate to get this book in my ALAN box. If you are an ELA teacher, librarian, or otherwise YA advocate, you need to know about ALAN aka Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of NCTE. Here’s a link to their website for more details about their annual conference and other helpful stuff.

In the first episode, I provide a summary of The Serpent King, discuss its connection to rural experiences, and talk about how it connected to my identity as a rural reader.

Over the past few months, I’ve book-talked eight rural YAL books over the course of 31 videos and interviewed four fabulous authors. In talking with folks who follow the show, I realized that it might be nice for y’all to be able to listen while on the move and not in front of a screen. So, thus begins this new podcast adventure.

For now, I’ll be taking the audio from the YouTube show and uploading it here. You’ll also be able to find it on Pocket Casts, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Play.

So here’s to experimentation, making mistakes, and getting messy.

This episode explains the purpose of the series and why I started doing it. Happy listening!