Description
Book SynopsisThis book offers revolutionary approaches to in-class discussions about young adult literature. It shows teachers how to think more widely than the themes of a book to consider how they might operate as prayers of lament, yearning, anger, confession, thankfulness, reconciliation, joy, obedience, pilgrimage, contemplation, and equanimity. It also offers a variety of ways for classroom discussion to consider a representative sentence or two from a young adult novel, and from that allow students to connect to linked passages in the rest of the novel. These approaches for classroom discussion are drawn from a variety of contemplative traditions, including Jewish and Christian faith traditions and include florilegium, lectio divina, PaRDeS, Ignatian Imagination, havruta, and marginalia. Drawing from a range of in-class experiences, the authors explain each approach in the context of twelve popular and critically interesting young adult novels including The Hate U Give, Long Way Down, Spe
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: New Ways to Interpret and Discuss Young Adult Literature
Chapter 1: Prayers of Lament in Internment
Chapter 2: Yearning in The Hate U Give
Chapter 3: Speak and Long Way Down Graphic Novels for Prayers of Anger
Chapter 4: Confession in Goodbye Days.
Chapter 6: Thankfulness in The War that Saved My Life
Chapter 7: The Poet X and Louisiana’s Way Home as Prayers of Reconciliation
Chapter 8: Using Havruta to Consider Orbiting Jupiter and Beast Player as Prayers of Obedience
Chapter 9: Prayers of Contemplation in Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Chapter 10: Finding Joy in The Fault in Our Stars through Floralegium
Chapter 11: The Inquisitor’s Tale: Using PaRDeS to Explore Pilgrimage
Conclusion: Closing our Discussion and the Books
References
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