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Breaking the Taboo with Young Adult Literature
Breaking the Taboo with Young Adult Literature
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Description
This text offers 6th - 12th 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 Contents
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. VirginiaTerri 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
Product details
Published | Apr 13 2020 |
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Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 238 |
ISBN | 9781475851335 |
Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
About the contributors
Reviews
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Breaking the Taboo with Young Adult Literature offers practical suggestions for teachers wanting to bring demanding topics into their classrooms. The strength of the text resides in its presentation of varied instructional approaches that invite students and their teachers to learn and think critically about topics that defy easy understanding. Across the volume, contributors share ideas for incorporating explorations of genre and author’s craft, connections to historical events and moments, analyses of legal precedents and policies, classroom research into local and global communities, theories of intersectionality that invite examination of oppression and privilege, and student-led advocacy and action research projects, each of which creates space for complex learning and engagement.
Wendy Glenn, Fulbright Scholar; professor, Literacy Studies and Teacher Learning, Research, and Practice; co-director, Teacher Education; chair, Secondary Humanities in the School of Education ,University of Colorado Boulder
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Topics considered taboo are often challenged and even banned from shelves where young adults might find them. This collection of essays helps form the foundation for their inclusion and use in the classroom. From Speak and Turtles All the Way Down to American Street and The Hate U Give, chapters provide cogent discussion opportunities and projects that can connect several books at a time. The structure of the book will permit educators to select one activity and use it for any other book in the collection. The support and research from this collection will likewise support teachers who wish to bring difficult texts to their students.
Teri S. Lesesne, Distinguished Professor, Library Science, Sam Houston State University