{"product_id":"expanding-the-foundation-9781475843552","title":"Expanding the Foundation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume focuses on a group of authors who began writing in the late 1980s. This group consists of eight authors who expanded the foundation and built a critical reputation that garnered a variety of nominations and awards. These authors are: Rita Williams-Garcia, Jacqueline Woodson, Angela Johnson, Nikki Grimes, Sharon Draper, Christopher Paul Curtis, and Sharon G. Flake, and Jewel Parker Rhodes. This volume has a chapter for each of these eight authors that focuses on their critical reception as authors, then discusses in some detail a single representative work, and, finally offers classroom activities for individual, small group, and whole class activities that will engage students in the work discussed. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eExpanding the Foundation; African American Authors of Young Adult Literature, 1980-2000 edited by Bickmore and Clark is a perfectly timed and carefully edited follow-up to On the Shoulders of Giants: Celebrating African American Authors of Young Adult Literature. The selections give readers an inside look into the fascinating lives of some of the most talented literary geniuses of our time, while including instructional strategies for educators and students to think critically and deeply. The book combines a perfect blend of history, research, theory, and practice about African American literature and provides us all--publishers, teachers, librarians, parents and students-- direction for examining African American literature.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Susan Densmore-James, PhD, Associate Professor; Director of the Emerald Coast National Writing Project; The Book Dealer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword by Nancy Tolson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction-Steven T. Bickmore and Shanetia P. Clark \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE FEATURED AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHORS \u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003e“We’re All Just People Here”: Freedom, Hope, and Migration in Brown Girl Dreaming\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eKaaVonia Hinton\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Coming of Age and Confronting Sexual Identity in Jacqueline Woodson’s From The Notebooks of Melanin Sun\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTammy Szafranski and Steven T. Bickmore\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. A Life Revealed: Angela Johnson’s The First Part Last and the Transformation of the Personal Narrative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatt Skillen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Nikki Grimes: Poet, Writer, Advocate, and Creative Spirit \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary Napoli and Barbara Ward\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5.Nikki Grimes: Poetry as Memior\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary Napoli and Barbara Ward\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Constructing Understanding Through Advocacy: A critical Disability Studies Perspective on Sharon draper’s Out of My Mind \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatie Caprino and Tara Anderson Gold \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. History, Memory, and Family Stories in Sharon Draper’s Stella by Starlight\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMorgan Jackson and Steven T. Bickmore\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. An Examinatin of Who We are through Historical Fiction: Using Christopher\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Curtis’ The Journey of Little Charlie as a Magnifying Glass\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShanetia P. Clark\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9.Finding and Accepting Oneself through Sharon G. Flake’s The Skin I’m In \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteven T. Bickmore and Tammy Szafranski\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. Narrating the Extraordinary Everydayness of Black Adolescents through the Works of Rita Williams-Garcia \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoberta Price Gardner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. Jewel Parker Rhodes: Towers Falling, Hope Rising\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRegina S. Carter, Bethany B. Mickel, and Felicia Moore\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040270516567,"sku":"9781475843552","price":61.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781475843552.jpg?v=1750946220","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/expanding-the-foundation-9781475843552","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}