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This text offers 6th - 12th grade educators guided instructional approaches for including young adult (YA) literature in the social sciences and humanities classroom in order to promote literacy development while learning content.
Sommario
CHAPTER 1
Collaborating with School Librarians to Guide Content Area Literacies
Using Young Adult Literature
Julie Stepp
CHAPTER 2
The Habits of a Nation: Reading Chains in Middle School Social Studies
Gretchen Rumohr-Voskuil and Luke Rumohr
CHAPTER 3
Bud, Not Buddy in Social Studies: Trials and Tribulations during the Great
Depression
Malinda Hoskins Lloyd and James E. Akenson
CHAPTER 4
Using the Storm in the Barn to Study the Dust Bowl: Comics as Triggers
for Inquiry
Crag Hill and Kristy Brugar
CHAPTER 5
Understanding of the Role of Leningrad in World War II through M. T.
Anderson's Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich
and the Siege of Leningrad
Steve Bickmore and Paul Binford
CHAPTER 6
Number the Stars: World War II and Young Adult Literature
Jason L. O'Brien and Brooke Eisenbach
CHAPTER 7
Using the Peritextual Literacy Framework with Young Adult Biographies:
Introducing Peritextual Functions with Adolescents in Social Studies
Shelbie Witte, Melissa Gross, and Don Latham
CHAPTER 8
Introducing Students to the Background of the Civil Rights Movement by
Using Mississippi Trial, 1955
Katie Irion and Chris Crowe
CHAPTER 9
Race, Racism, and Power Structures: Reading All American Boys in a Social
Studies Current Events Course
Shelly Shaffer and A. Suzie Henning
CHAPTER 10
The Eyes of van Gogh: Searching for Identity and Expression through Art
Robert Jordan and Mike DiCicco
CHAPTER 11
Understanding Theater in Drama High: The Incredible True Story of a
Brilliant Teacher, a Struggling Town, and the Magic of Theater
Jeffrey S. Kaplan and Elizabeth Brendel Horn
CHAPTER 12
A Music and ELA Project: Connections through Brendan Kiely's The Last
True Love Story
Steve Bickmore and Isaac Bickmore
CHAPTER 13
YA Sports Literature through a Positive Psychology Framework
Nicole Sieben and Alan Brown
ABOUT THE EDITORS
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES
INDEX OF SUBJECTS
Info autore
professor of English education, University of South Florida; senior executive director, Florida Council of Teachers of English, 2010-2011; membership secretary, Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the National Council of Teachers of English; and author of Dear Author: Letters of Hope (NCSS Notable Book and 2007 VOYA Nonfiction Honor List)
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This text offers 6th - 12th grade educators guided instructional approaches for including young adult (YA) literature in the social sciences and humanities classroom in order to promote literacy development while learning content.
