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Inspire teenagers to read quality literature and help them explore issues relevant to their lives. This outstanding book offers motivational, ready-to-use booktalks for more than 100 of the best new reads for teenagers, guaranteed to pique teen interest. Each booktalk comes with complete bibliographic information, a detailed plot summary, helpful presentation tips, curriculum connections, and suggestions for related books and media. Grades 7-12.
To help you keep the booktalk momentum going, Lucy Schall provides engaging follow-up discussion questions and activity ideas that will enhance every teen's reading, writing, and speaking skills. With a focus on recently published fiction and nonfiction titles in a wide variety of genres and themes, these dynamic booktalks center around issues, problems, and challenges that young adults are facing—from family concerns, expectations, and leadership to prejudice, good and evil, and the future. These lively booktalks and activities will motivate your teens to explore the complex world around them through unforgettable literary journeys.
Table of Contents
Challenge: We Meet a Powerful World
Strangers Judge
Families Plan
Nature Prevails
Nations Conflict
Supernatural Forces Intrude
Achievement: We Test Coping Skills
Trying to Meet Expectations
Seeking Our Spirit
Testing Our Physical Limits
Developing Our Minds
Dedication: We Battle the Forces Against Us
The Forces of Good and Evil Complicating Our Lives
Disease and Injury Threatening to Limit Our Abilities
Hate and Prejudice Trying to Shut Us Out
Family Conflicts Forcing Us to Define Ourselves
Legacy: We Are Remembered
Entertaining and Creating
Trusting
Teaching and Leading
Looking Toward the Future
Product details
| Published | 30 Jun 2003 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 296 |
| ISBN | 9780313058998 |
| Imprint | Libraries Unlimited |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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