mock elections webinar august 21

ALSC WebinarNewbery and CaldecottMock Elections Tool Kit

Presented by

Steven Engelfried

Served on 2002 Caldecott Committee

Presenter: Steven Engelfried

Youth Services Librarian at the Wilsonville Public

Library (OR)

Served on 2010 Newbery Committee

Chair of the 2013 Newbery Committee

2001 Edition by

Kathleen Simonetta, Nancy Hackett,

& Linda Ward-Callaghan.

1994 edition by

Linda Ward-Callaghan & Kathleen Staerkel

Digital Download Information available at the ALA Store

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Agenda

– Types of Mock Awards – Choosing books– Award Criteria– Evaluating and Discussing Books– Voting– Q & A

Types of Mock Elections

• Format – Length – Half day– Full day– Multiple days

• For this webinar we’ll generally assume Full Day

Types of Mock Elections

• Format – Setting– Live and in person– Electronic

• Heavy Medal

Heavy Medal: A Mock Newbery Bloghttp://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/heavymedal/

Types of Mock Elections

• Format – Setting– Live and in person– Electronic

• Heavy Medal• Beaverton School District

Beaverton School District Newbery Blog[url is private]

Beaverton School District Newbery Blog [url is private]

Beaverton School District Newbery Blog [url is private]

Types of Mock Elections

• Audience– Kids– Adults

• In this webinar, we’ll look at both audiences at times

• Preparation Checklist

Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Tool Kit sample page

Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Tool Kit attachments list

Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Tool Kit sample attachment

Types of Mock Elections

• Book choices– Newbery & Caldecott from current year– Other awards from the current year

Robert F. Sibert Medal http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/sibertmedal/index.cfm

ALSC Book and Media Awards http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/index.cfm

Types of Mock Elections

• Book choices– Newbery & Caldecott from current year– Other awards from the current year– Retrospective awards– Genres or types

Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Tool Kit Genre Discussions Book List

Types of Mock Elections

– Today we focus on• Mostly live presentation, full day• Adult and Child audiences• Newbery and Caldecott, rather than other

approaches

Book Choices

• Use the work of others– Resources

• Other Mock Awards online, for example:– Allen County Public Library

Allen County Public Library Mock Caldecotthttp://www.acplmockcaldecott.blogspot.com/

Book Choices

• Use the work of others– Resources

• Other Mock Awards online, for example:– Allen County Public Library – Good Reads

Good Reads: Mock Newbery 2012http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/16663.Mock_Newbery_2012

Book Choices

• Best discussion books– Choose for your group– It’s not a prediction contest– Mix formats and genres– Let participants know your thinking

Awards Information

• Curiosity about the Committee experience– Ellen Fader: “If You Only Knew.” School

Library Journal (August 1999)– Nell Colburn: “Caldecott Confidential.” School

Library Journal (February 2010)– Heather McNeill: “Forty Hundred Books: A

Single Mother’s Year with the Newbery” Children & Libraries (Summer/Fall 2005)

Awards Criteria

• Key areas to share related to criteria– Information

• About the criteria• About the “elements” described in the criteria

– Examples• Concrete examples of how the criteria work• Modeling for the discussion that will follow

– Practice• Participants apply the information you’ve shared, following

the examples you’ve demonstrated, as they discuss the books on the Mock list.

Awards Criteria

• Criteria – techniques for sharing– Terms and Criteria are on ALSC’s website

Terms and Criteria: Randolph Caldecott Medalhttp://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/

caldecottmedal/caldecottterms/caldecottterms.cfm

Awards Criteria

• Criteria – techniques for sharing– Terms and Criteria are on ALSC’s website– Newbery criteria: Key Points to Consider

Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Tool Kit Newbery Criteria: Key Points to Consider

Awards Criteria

• Criteria – techniques for sharing– Terms and Criteria are on ALSC’s website– Newbery criteria: Key Points to Consider– Caldecott Criteria: Key Points to Consider

Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Tool Kit Caldecott Criteria: Key Points to Consider

© Chris Raschka

Yo! Yes? by Chris Raschka

From Mo Willems’ Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus © 2003 by Mo Willems. Reprinted by permission of Disney-Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Book Group LLC. All rights reserved.

Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems

Newbery: Literary Qualities

• Literary Qualities – Interpretation of the theme or concept– Presentation of information including accuracy,

clarity, and organization– Development of a plot– Delineation of characters– Delineation of a setting– Appropriateness of style

• Handout – Exploring Literary Elements Through Newbery

Discussion

Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Tool Kit Exploring Literary Elements through Newbery Discussion

Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Tool Kit Exploring Literary Elements through Newbery Discussion

Newbery: Literary Qualities

• Literary Qualities: focus on the author – Interpretation of the theme or concept– Presentation of information including

accuracy, clarity, and organization– Development of a plot– Delineation of characters– Delineation of a setting– Appropriateness of style

Newbery: Literary Qualities

“But we girls would be proud as punch to have you join our Auxiliary if you’re a veteran’s wife. Did your late husband go to war?” “Only with me,” Grandma said, “and he lost every time.”

Copyright © 2000 by Richard Peck

Delineation of Character

Cover illustration copyright © 2000 by Steve Cieslawski

A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck

Newbery: Literary Qualities

The Lady waddled to her special place in the road, squatted then flapped hard, sending up silt and worn-out feathers. She paused and rested like a movie star in her bubble bath, then did it again. When she finished, she billed and preened her luxuriance. In the sunlight her black tail feathers glistened purple like oil on water.

Whittington by Alan Armstrong, published by Random House Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books

Whittington by Alan Armstrong

Delineation of Character

Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Tool Kit From Chapter 2: Exploring Text – The Newbery Medal

Newbery: Literary Qualities

Holes by Louis Sachar. Published by Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group

Holes by Louis Sachar

The reader is probably asking: Why would anyone go to Camp Green Lake? Most campers weren’t given a choice. Camp Green Lake is a camp for bad boys.If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy.That was what some people thought.Stanley Yelnats was given a choice. The judge said, “You may go to jail, or you may go to Camp Green Lake.”Stanley was from a poor family. He had never been to camp before.

Style + Setting + Character + Theme

Newbery: Literary Qualities

• Key areas to share– Information

• Criteria and Literary Elements

– Examples• Use real books

– Practice• Happens in the Newbery discussion that follows

Caldecott: Artistic Qualities

• Caldecott Considerations– Exploring Techniques in Picture Book Art

• Artistic Medium• Artistic Styles• Elements of Art

– Shape, Line, Color, Texture, Light and Dark, Line, Shape, Space, Perspective, and Collective Unity

Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Tool Kit Exploring Techniques in Picture Book Art

Caldecott: Artistic Qualities

• Caldecott Considerations– Exploring Techniques in Picture Book Art

• Artistic Medium• Artistic Styles• Elements of Art

– Shape, Line, Color, Texture, Light and Dark, Line, Shape, Space, Perspective, and Collective Unity

– Also look at how artistic choices impact narrative elements

• Plot, Information, Setting, Characterization, Theme

© Chris Raschka

Yo! Yes? by Chris Raschka

Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Tool Kit Exploring Techniques in Picture Book Art

Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Tool Kit From Chapter 3: Searching Pictures – The Caldecott Medal

From What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page.

Copyright © 2003 by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Tool Kit From Caldecott Images section

What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? Illustrated by Steve Jenkins

Artistic Element: Space

From What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page. Copyright © 2003 by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page.

Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Artistic Element: Space

My Friend Rabbitby Eric Rohmann

© 2002 Eric Rohmann

Artistic Element: Space

© 2002 Eric Rohmann

My Friend Rabbitby Eric Rohmann

Caldecott: Artistic Qualities

• Ways of Demonstrating Artistic Elements– Show specific elements, such as shape and

color, with examples from several different books

– Use two or three books to highlight elements, using several examples from each book

– Walk through a single book, covering multiple elements

Text copyright © 2001 Marc Simont.

Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

Stray Dog by Marc Simont Art: Shape, Color, Space, Line Narrative: Plot, Theme

Text copyright © 2001 Marc Simont. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

Stray Dog by Marc SimontArt: Space, Color

Narrative: Plot, Theme, Character

Text copyright © 2001 Marc Simont. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

Stray Dog by Marc SimontArt: Color, Space, Line

Narrative: Plot, Theme, Character

Text copyright © 2001 Marc Simont. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

Caldecott: Artistic Qualities

• Three excellent demonstration books– Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice

Sendak– When Sophie Gets Angry--Really, Really

Angry by Molly Bang– Yo! Yes? by Chris Raschka

© Chris Raschka

Yo! Yes? by Chris Raschka

Caldecott: Artistic Qualities

• Two more resources for picture book demonstrations – Booklinks “Illustration as Art” series by Mary

M. Erbach (March – November, 2007)– Picturing Books website

Caldecott: Artistic Qualities

• Key areas to share– Information

• Criteria• Everything on the page is an artist’s choice

– Examples• Artistic elements and narrative elements

– Practice• Apply the techniques you talk about in the

discussion of Mock Caldecott books

Mock Awards Discussion

• Group Discussion Basics– Discussion guidelines

• CCBC Book Discussion Guidelines

CCBC Book Discussion Guidelineshttp://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/books/discguide.asp

Ginny Moore Kruse and Kathleen T. Horning

© 1989 Cooperative Children's Book Center

Mock Awards Discussion

• Group Discussion Basics– Discussion guidelines

• CCBC Book Discussion Guidelines

– Assign facilitators– Discussion Group Procedures handout in the

e-book

Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Tool Kit Discussion Group Procedures

Voting

• Use official ALSC ballot tabulating– Resources in the e-book

• Vote Tally Sheet

Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Tool Kit Vote Tally Sheet

Voting

• Use official ALSC ballot tabulating– Resources in the e-book

• Vote Tally Sheet• Sample Ballot Tabulator

Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Tool Kit Sample Ballot Tabulator

Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Tool Kit Sample Ballot Tabulator

Voting

• Use official ALSC ballot tabulating– Resources in the e-book

• Vote Tally Sheet• Sample Ballot Tabulator

– Share your results!• Nationally

– Heavy Medal– CCBC Net

• Locally– School Newsletters– Press Release to Newspapers

Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Tool Kit Sample Press Release

Wrap up

• A live look at the e-book

• Purchasing Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Toolkit, 2011 Edition

Digital Download Information available at the ALA Store

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Wrap up

• Q & A

• Can contact me with follow up questions– Steven Engelfried, Wilsonville Public Library

• 503-570-1592• engelfried@wilsonvillelibrary.org