Materials for YAL Workshop on Cory Doctorow's Little Brother

See links below:



http://www.neiu.edu/~yal/2009/LittleBrother/Little Brother_Character_and_Vocab_Lists.doc


http://www.neiu.edu/~yal/2009/LittleBrother/Little_Brother_PowerPoint.ppt


http://www.neiu.edu/~yal/2009/LittleBrother/Little_Brother_cover-small.jpg

Article on Chicago teachers Building Vocabulary

http://www.ascd.org/publications/newsletters/education_update/aug06/vol48/num08/Chicago_Teachers_Learn_to_Build_Academic_Vocabulary.aspx

Links to Standards Related to YAL Workshop for Little Brother

ENGLISH

http://www.isbe.net/ils/ela/standards.htm

http://www.isbe.net/ils/ela/capd.htm

http://www.isbe.net/ils/ela/stage_J/assessment.htm

http://www.isbe.net/ils/ela/stage_J/1AJ.pdf


SOCIAL SCIENCE

http://www.isbe.state.il.us/ils/social_science/standards.htm

http://www.isbe.state.il.us/ils/social_science/capd.htm

http://www.isbe.state.il.us/ils/social_science/stage_J/assessment.htm

http://www.isbe.state.il.us/ils/social_science/stage_J/14D_16DJ.pdf

http://www.isbe.state.il.us/ils/social_science/stage_J/18B_18CJ.pdf

Short Review of Little Brother for Wired Magazine

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2008/09/geekdad-revie-3/

Annotated Little Brother

Chapter 2


http://w1n5t0n.com/chapter-2/#9

NCTE Charactereization Lessons

http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=175

Character Trait Worksheet
http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson175/RWT186-2.pdf

Instructables for Little Brother

How to do some of the things Marcus does.

http://www.instructables.com/member/w1n5t0n/

Article by Cory Doctorow on publisher's website

http://us.macmillan.com/BookCustomPage.aspx?isbn=9780765319852&m_type=4&m_contentid=6475

Little Brother teacher resources

Publisher's Study Guide
http://us.macmillan.com/static/little_brother_readers_guide.pdf

Copied Questions Only
http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/ACFB/Little%20Brother.pdf

Publishers Brochure on Little Brother
http://us.macmillan.com/static/little_brother_educators_brochure.pdf

Chicago Teachers' Center workshop on using digital photo storage

Exploring the Possibilities of Using Web Based Digital Images

The next Resource Center workshop will take place on Tuesday, October 13 from 4:30pm – 6:30pm. Presenters Cole Pierce and Roxana Hadad will help participants learn how to access online digital resources, like photo storage sites and blogs, for classroom curricular activities.

Aussie kids work to curb Cyber-bullying

Australian article about cyber-bullying conference.


http://www.theage.com.au/national/stemming-the-tide-of-cyber-bullying-20091012-gu1x.html

Hackers as Nation-Builders?

State Dept offers $2.5 million for hackers to wire the Mid-East and Africa

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/08/state-dept-offers-25.html