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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade ReviewA 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”
Adolescent 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
This 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”
Table of ContentsCHAPTER 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
