{"product_id":"adolescent-literature-as-a-complement-to-the-content-areas-9781475838305","title":"Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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. Chapters are co-authored, pairing content experts with literacy experts, to ensure that both content and literacy standards are met in each approach. Each chapter spotlights the reading of one YA novel, and offer pre-, during-, and after reading activities that guide students to a deeper understanding of the content while increasing their literacy practices. While each chapter focuses on a specific content topic, readers will discover the many opportunities reading YA literature in the content area has in encouraging cross-disciplinary study.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA wonderful exploration of the vital ways adolescent literature can open hearts and truly engage minds with the historical realities of our world. This is an important addition to every teacher’s professional library! -- Laurie Halse Anderson, New York Times bestselling author, “Speak”, “Twisted”,“Wintergirls,” and the “Seeds of America Trilogy”\u003cbr\u003eAdolescent Literature as a Complement to the Content Areas speaks to what education could be when allowed to follow its natural course.  Using YA literature brings imagination into the arenas of social studies and the humanities, and I am in good company with Albert Einstein who told us over and over that true brilliance cannot be achieved without robust imagination. -- Chris Crutcher, author of several American Library Association (ALA) Best Books for Young Adults, including five novels that appeared on ALA’s list of the 100 Best Books for Teens of the 21st Century\u003cbr\u003eThis volume contains highly practical methods that combine meaningful social studies material and relevance to literacy standards. The range of topics included is imaginative and would find good use in a number of different social studies courses. -- Stephen J. Thornton, professor of Social Science Education, University of South Florida; author of the award-winning “Teaching Social Studies That Matters: Curriculum for Active Learning”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 1 Collaborating with School Librarians to Guide Content Area Literacies  Using Young Adult Literature \tJulie 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","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040253182295,"sku":"9781475838305","price":54.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781475838305.jpg?v=1750946165","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/adolescent-literature-as-a-complement-to-the-content-areas-9781475838305","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}