Description
Book SynopsisThis text offers 6
th - 12
th grade educators guided instructional approaches for including diverse young adult (YA) literature in the classroom as a form of social justice teaching and learning. Through the YA books spotlighted in this text, educators are provided pre-, during-, and after reading activities that guide students to a deeper understanding of topics that are often considered taboo in the classroom - race, racism, mental health, immigration, gender, sexuality, sexual assault - while increasing their literacy practices.
Table of ContentsPREFACE
INTRODUCTION: Breaking the Taboo
Victor Malo-Juvera and Paula Greathouse
CHAPTER 1: Date Rape in Speak: Teaching for Justice Using the Graphic Novel
Shelly Shaffer
CHAPTER 2: Speak! Shout! Hearing from and Advocating for Victims of Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment
Marshall A. George
CHAPTER 3: Exploring Women’s Rights and Sexual Assault through Blood Water Paint: How far have we come anyway?
Alice Hays
CHAPTER 4: Examining Mental Illness in John Green’s Turtles All the Way Down: OCD - More than Just Attention to Detail
Elsie Lindy Olan & Kia Jane Richmond
CHAPTER 5: Putting the Pieces Together: Destigmatizing Self-Harm through Kathleen Glasgow’s Girl in Pieces
Janine J. Darragh and Ashley S. Boyd
CHAPTER 6: When Home is Traumatic: David Small’s Graphic Memoir, Stitches
Emily Wender
CHAPTER 7: Choosing Love over Hate: Raising Students Who Understand Bullying and Its Dangerous Consequences – Hate List
Leilya Pitre
CHAPTER 8: Far from Simple: Addressing the Complexities of Equity and Justice in Robin Benway’s Far from the Tree
Sharon Kane and Christine Walsh
CHAPTER 9: Digging up the Injustices of the Roaring 20s: Dreamland Burning
Crag Hill
CHAPTER 10: Examining Systemic Racism and Police Brutality in Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give
Steffany Comfort Maher
CHAPTER 11: Confronting Cultural Appropriation and Gentrification through YAL: Shadowshaper
Meredith N. Sinclair
CHAPTER 12: Teachers, Allies, & Sacrifice: Blood Brother: Jonathan Daniels and his Sacrifice for Civil Rights
Steven Bickmore and Tammy Szafranski
CHAPTER 13: Exploring Equity and Justice in the Female Immigrant Experience through Anya’s Ghost
Nina R. Schoonover and Michelle Falter
CHAPTER 14: Equity, Justice, and Love: Contextualizing the Fight for Marriage Equality with Loving vs. Virginia
Terri Suico
CHAPTER 15: Telling the Stories: Teaching LGBTQ+ Memoir
Melanie Hundley
CHAPTER 16: Using Jaya and Rasa: A Love Story to Portray Love’s Power in Assisting Two Outcast Adolescents Achieve Societal Voices and Personal Self-Esteem
Lisa A. Hazlett and Ann Marie Smith
CHAPTER 17: Engaging the Intersections of Gender, Race, and Immigration in American Street
E. Sybil Durand
ABOUT THE EDITORS
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
SUBJECT INDEX
