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Tutoring Your Teen--Part II

HalWLanse — Thu, 22 May 2008 08:07:40 -0700

In order for any teen to build his or her reading skills they must read, experts say, at least two hours per day. Schools should be part of this process but most often they aren't. Under these circumstances, taking up the slack at home becomes very important. You cannot force adolescents to read, you can only entice them. This means you must provide them with books they find interesting. Reading is like meditating: it works if one builds concentration slowly over time and if it's pleasurable. Here are some links to websites where you can find a range of interesting young adult (YA) fiction. If you and your teen find interesting books on any of these sites--or elsewhere--it would be great if both of you could read them and discuss what you like about the books. A great way to tutor your teen and make it fun is to disucss the problems the main characters have and how they deal with these problems. Ask yur teen if he/she would have handled the problem differently. This is a comprehension-building technique. It's also a great way of spending quality time together.

Teen books with an edge: http://www.thisispush.com

Highly recommended YA literature from the American Library Association: http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/bestbooksya/bestbooksyoung....

Gay themed YA fiction from the author of the Rainbow Boys series. (Do buy his books; they’re wonderful.): http://www.alexsanchez.com/gay_teen_books.htm

Books with African American themes for children of all ages: http://www.blackbooksdirect.com/children.html

Multicultural literature recommended on the Alan Review (with suggested age ranges and a key to determine each book’s degree of difficuly): http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/fall95/Ericson.html

girls can be fags...

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:02:39 -0800

I have seen/experienced "fag" applied to females as well in the same sense as "gay." It definitely threw me off the first few times I heard it, but I think it is spreading as another was to say "lame" or "stupid."

Lovely post

emilypico — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:02:43 -0800

Thanks for sharing this video! So impressed with this young man - great outlook on life (and vocabulary! I don't think that I ever used the word 'humility' at his age :).

-Emily
http://picodegallo.wordpress.com

Interesting...

summersmom — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 07:39:42 -0800

...high school kids are becoming more liberal towards lesbian and gay rights, so the terms have changed. For them, calling someone a fag has nothing to do with morality - it's just an insult like "you're so retarded". In some weird way I see that as progress. In some very weird way...

That's so gay!

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:29:44 -0800

Let's hope they grow out of it.

Where 'Boy Talks About His Moms' comes from

Lesbian Dad — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 02:20:54 -0700

This beautiful piece is an excerpt from COLAGE's "In My Shoes: stories of Youth with LGBT Parents," directed by Jen Gilomen and premiered in 2005. Here's the website for the documentary.

Thanks for posting the YouTube excerpt here.