Description
Book SynopsisArts Integration and Young Adult Literature: Strategies to Enhance Academic Skills and Empower Student Voice combines two research-based concepts, arts integration and the use of young adult literature, to provide activities and instructional strategies to boost students' communication, reading, and thinking skills, while utilizing a variety of art integrated methods with a diverse range of young adult literature to enable high school literacy teachers to harmonize art and young adult literature into their curriculum
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Foreword
Dr. Michael Angelotti
Introduction: A Story for the Books
Rebecca Maldonado
Section 1 - Research & Rationale for Using Art Integration & Young Adult Literature
Chapter 1 - The Power of the Arts in the English Language Arts Classroom
Kay W. Cowan and S. Rebecca Leigh
Chapter 2 - From Stacks to Desks: A History of Young Adult Literature and the Case for Inclusion
Christian Gregory
Section 2 - Arts Integration and Young Adult Literature in Prose
Chapter 3 - Exploring Deadly Events Through Performance, Visual Storytelling, and Creative Writing
Young Adult Literature Text: What Made Maddy Run by Kate Fagan
Thomas C. Crochunis
Chapter 4 - Impressions/Expressions: Using Arts Integration Strategies while Reading a Biography of an Artist
Young Adult Literature Text: Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers by Deborah Heiligman
Sharon Kane with Deborah Heiligman
Chapter 5 - Promoting Emotional Transformation Through Mandala Making
Young Adult Literature Text: Our Chemical Hearts by Krystal Sutherland
Donna L. Miller
Section 3 - Arts Integration and Young Adult Literature in Verse
Chapter 6 - Digital Quilting: Weaving Words and Images
Young Adult Literature Text: Sold by Patricia McCormick
Pamela Hartman, Brandon Schuler, and Hannah Fulton
Chapter 7 - The Student X: Centering Student Identity and Agency via Public Art and Young Adult Literature
Young Adult Literature Text: The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Stephen Goss and Jennifer S. Dail
Chapter 8 - The Transpoemation Project: Poetry, Heterosexism, and Digital-age Storytelling
Young Adult Literature Text: October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard by Leslea Newman
Toby Emert
Section IV - Arts Integration with Other Young Adult Literature Text
Chapter 9 - Getting into Good Trouble: Exploring Visual Literacy with John Lewis’s March
Young Adult Literature Text: March, Book One by John Lewis
Emily Wender and Pauline Skowron Schmidt
Chapter 10 - A Bleak Picture?: Critical Pedagogy of Place and Finger Painting with Sadie
Young Adult Literature Text: Sadie by Courtney Summers
Chea Parton
Chapter 11- Interrogating Boundaries Through Reader’s Theater
Young Adult Literature Text: Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir by Maggie Thrash
Ann Marie Smith and Lisa A. Hazlett
Appendix
About the Editor
About the Contributors
