Learning Outcomes
Identify recurrent themes
that arise in YA migration
narratives from 2000-now
by engaging with literature,
graphic novels and
documentary
Demonstrate knowledge
and critique topics that
currently prevail in YA
migration literature by
engaging into discussion
about current migration
debates
Provide and receive
constructive criticism
during class discussions
and short writing
assignments
Expand on the class
material or locate further
related literature to write a
final essay that
demonstrates critical
thinking about the
migration experience of
minors / young adults
Schedule of Topics
Assignments Activities
In-class participation Weekly discussion
Courselink of class material
Discussion board Brainstorming
activities using
online platforms
such as menti.com
Weekly contribution
to Courselink
discussion board by
comments in your
instructors/peers
threads
Oral presentation Work in
pairs/groups
Upon completion of
their presentations,
students will lead
and moderate class
discussion based on
their selected topic
Book Review Peer-review
Final Essay Outline activities assigned
by the instructor in
class time
Research Paper Peer-review final
paper outline
Final essay
In-class activities
Week Topic Readings Notes

1 Introduction: What Crossing

is YA migration Borders:Immigratio
literature? n Narratives in
Young Adult
literature, Joanne
Brown

2 Unaccompanied The Only Road, Guest instructor

Minors and Alexandra Diaz on how to write
Crossing Borders a book review
Oral
presentations
Sign up

3 Wordless The Arrival, Shaun

narratives: if an Tan
image is worth
1000 words, how
many words is a
graphic novel
worth?

4 Postcolonial My name is not Book reviews

readings of YA Easy, Debby Dahl due
migration literature Edwardson Guest instructor

5 Immigrant Identities You Bring the

Distant Near,
Mitali Perkins

6 How to write a (no readings Guest instructor

research paper: A assigned)
peer-editing
process

7 Malala Yousafzai: He named me Research Paper

The New heroine, Malala, Davis Outline first draft
Non-fiction Version. Guggenheim due
From Pakistan to
England
8 Graphic Novels and Gazpacho
Humor: the Agridulce, Quan
contradiction of a Zhou Wu
Chinese who
speaks with an
Andalusian accent

9 The meaning of The Red Umbrella, Research paper

home: Emigrant Christina Diaz Outline final
Dreams, Immigrant Gonzalez draft due
Borders

10 1.5 Generation La Hija Extranjera, Guest Instructor

Immigrants Najat el Hachmi

11 Terrorism, The Lines We

Xenophobia and Cross,
difficult choices by Randa Abdel-
Fattah

12 Review (no readings Final Research

assigned) Paper due