COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS | Lesson Plans | Independent Lens | PBS

COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS Lesson Plans Independent Lens PBS
Check out these resources for teachers on issues of intellectual property
and music sampling, etc.!!

COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS | Documentary Film | Independent Lens | PBS

COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS Documentary Film Independent Lens PBS
Can anyone have the rights to music?
Tonight on PBS -Independent Lens.

Facts on the dire situation of education in Texas schools.

A Feeling for Books | American Libraries Magazine

A Feeling for Books | American Libraries Magazine
Check out this article on books as therapy and for overcoming and healing = bibliotherapy! Makes sense to me as YA & Childrens books are can be one of the only places/ways students learn the virtue of character building.

This Tuesday night at the SAMA
 San Antonio Museum of Art

Rolando Briseno discussed his work.

YALSA launches first issue of the Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults | American Libraries Magazine

YALSA launches first issue of the Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults American Libraries Magazine

Greg Barrios at the Twig

 November 12 -Well known poet Greg Barrios asked local actors to read selected poems from his various books of poetry at the Twig book store.  All the actors were amazing!  La Causa is his latest book of poetry available at the Twig! -I highly recommend it.  Thank you to the Twig for holding space for great poets and for keep our S.A. culture alive.  You can see Greg Barrios perform his poems on YouTube by typing his name in the search terms.
You can sign up for their online newsletter of upcoming events at: http://www.thetwig.indiebound.com/

Jan Paris Library Conferance in Corpus Christi Texas

November 6th 2010.
Saturday was awesome..... got to meet the Author of Speak, Miss Lauri Halse Anderson and she signed my T-shirt! Can't wait to show my kids they will be excited as we just finished the book, she also asked me to send her the Glogster posters my eighth grade kids made! Got to meet some interesting people. I will publish my favorite Latino authors list soon... I am starting this blog to share my passion to get kids reading!
Joe

Resources for Librarians and Teachers for serving Latino Teens

Resources for serving Latino & low SES teens:

Research & solutions Understanding Latino Parental Involvement in Education http://www.bilingualeducation.org/pdfs/TRPI%20parent%20involvement.pdf

Documentary

- HBO’s special on the Latino experience in America –candid interviews with over 400 Latino celebrities (many more on Youtube –keyword: ‘Habla’): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPZfTBYrzAc

 & part II http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59Kl4mbYUyk

Poetry & Spoken Word
- Search term on Youtube: ‘Brave New Voices’ : HBO’s & Russell Simmons special on teens performing spoken word poetry

-Video of Diego Mosquera  (awesome writer & performer) on Youtube check out ‘Youth Poetry’ @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd0K_4IYPk8&feature=PlayList&p=F57A3EEB57696A1E&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=60  & also,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxEfkFL_Jlo

-Video of Antonio or Amanda Flores performing @ mrtenglish8@wikispaces.com

-Bicycle by Nikki Giovanni

Programs
 -Various programs offered by the National Council of La Raza

          http://nclr.org/content/topics/detail/499
-REFORMA (The National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking): for resources & programs, & more go to link titled: Online Resources for Librarians working with Latino Children 
-Black Men for Reading & Writing: mentor program w/schools – contact Fred Williams 885-8894
-Cool program ideas for teens like ‘making skinny jeans’, @ ‘teen’ link on Yuma library website: www.yumalibrary.org

-Cool program ideas for teens @ the San Antonio public lib. –click on ‘Teens’ @ http://www.mysapl.org/
-More cool program ideas from Chicago’s Public School system @ http://www.afterschoolmatters.org/home

Technology

-Send mass text messages or mobile alerts to patrons @ http://www.textmarks.com/

Tech. for Teens

- Write stories via texting – a FREE site allows members to share and create texted stories @  www.textnovel.com         (can create a class account)

-Manga by smartphone & its FREE @ http://www.mangafox.com/

-Anime  in Espanol & its Free @ http://www.animextremist.com/

-Anime in various languages & translations & its FREE @ http://www.veoh.com/

    YA title lists & websites

-Reforma’s list: check out the Children & YA services page @: www.reforma.org/CYASC.htm

-Pura Bupre awards (list of recognized Latino writers)

-The Tomas Rivera Mexican American Children & YA book awards @ http://www.education.txstate.edu/departments/Tomas-Rivera-Book-Award-Project-Link/Winners.html

-ALA websites –Booklists & Quick Picks for Reluctant YA Readers  - www.ala.org

-Urban literature - for urban teens  - recommended authors & titles –with positive life lessons : Coe Booth,  Angela Johnson, Matt de la Pena, Walter Dean Myers, Kalisha Buckhanon, Tachelle Wilkes,  Homeboyz, True to the Game, Upstate, The Pact
Urban Literature websites :  http://thebrownbookshelf.com/teen-lit/  /    
   http://www.streetfiction.org/category/urban-teen/   /   

-Correta Scott King awards (list of recognized African American writers)

List of YA Novels by Latino authors

Recommended titles for teens:  (based on a list compiled by Alma Ramos-McDermott)
 (Books about themes other than crossing the border or life in a foreign country):*= Characters surviving or overcoming poverty

Araña: The Heart of the Spider (a graphic novel series), Fiona Avery, Marvel Comics
Marcelo in the Real World, & *The Last Summer of the Death Warrior, both by Francisco Stork!

B as in Beauty, Alberto Ferreras

We Were Here, & Mexican Whiteboy, Matt de la Pena or any book by this author!

Return to Sender, Julia Alvarez
Last Night I Sang to the Monster
*Dope Sick, Walter Dean Myers & many books by Myers deals with low SES teens overcoming.
 * Trino's Choice, Diane Gonzales Bertrand
*The Tequila Worm, Viola Canales
*Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida, Victor Martinez
*Republic of East L.A.: Stories, Luis Rodriguez, HarperCollins
*Breaking Through, Francisco Jiménez, Houghton Mifflin
Under the Mesquite, Guadalupe Garcia McCall, Lee & Low Books
Dark Dude, Oscar Hijuelos, Antheneum Books for Young Readers
Confetti Girl, Diana Lopez
The Brothers Torres, Coert Voorhees
Desert Passage, P.S. Carrillo, Pinata Books
Historia De Carlito, Max Benavides & Katherine Del Monte, Lectura Books
 Esperanza Rising, Pam Muñoz Ryan, Scholastic
Behind the Eyes, Francisco X. Stork, Dutton Juvenile  (Setting in S.A.)
Graffiti Girl, Kelly Parra, MTV
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez 
 Once Upon a Quinceañera: Coming of Age in the U.S.A., Julia Alvarez
Estrellas Quinceañera, Malin Alegria, Simon Pulse
Bless Me Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya
Adios to My Old Life, Caridad Ferrer, MTB Pocket Books
Heat, Mike Lupica
Chasing the Jaguar, Michele Domínguez Greene, Harper Teen
Lorenzo's Secret Mission, Lila Guzman and Rick Guzman, Arte Público Press
White Bread Competition, Jo Ann Yolanda Hernández, Arte Público Press
Crash Boom Love: A Novel in Verse, Juan Felipe Herrera, University of New Mexico Press
And Now Miguel, Joseph Krumgold, Houghton Mifflin
Call Me Henri, Lorraine M. Lopez, Curbstone Press
Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood, Benjamin Alire Saenz
Drift: A Novel, Manuel Luis Martinez, Picador
Finding Our Way, René Saldaña Jr., Wendy Lamb Books
    (A collection of short stories depicting Ufe growing up Hispanic in America)
How to Be a Chicana Role Model, Michèle M. Serros, Penguin
So Hard to Say, Alex Sanchez, Simon & Schuster   (Gay characters)
Tommy Stands Alone, Gloria Velazquez, Arte Público Press  (Gay characters)
Hard Love, Ellen Wittlinger, Simon $ Schuster   (Gay characters)
Accidental Love, Gary Soto, Harcourt
The Afterlife, Gary Soto, Harcourt,
Help Wanted: Stories, Gary Soto, Harcourt Children's Books
    (Ten short stories portray some of the struggles and hopes of young Mexican Americans)
Crazy Loco, David Talbot Rice, Puffin
Haters, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Litde, Brown Young Readers
Hiding Low on the Streets of Gold, Judith Ortiz Cofer
Things I Have to Tell You: Poems and Writings by Teenage Girls, Betsy Franco

Non-fiction/memoirAlways Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A., Luis Rodriguez, Curbstone Press
Every Human Has Rights, A photographic declaration for kids, National Geographic

Denied, Detained, Deported by Ann Bausum

Marching Freedom  -helps teach tolerance (integrated lesson @ http://www.tolerance.org)  & photo
                                 essay for reluctant readers