Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the Content Areas

Science and Math
Herausgeber: Greathouse, Paula; Eisenbach, Brooke; Kaywell, Joan F.

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Produktbeschreibung

This text offers 6th - 12th grade educators guided instructional approaches for including young adult (YA) literature in science and math classes in order to promote literacy development while learning content.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9781475831672
• ISBN-10: 1475831676
• Artikelnr.: 48326418

Autorenporträt

Paula Greathouse is an assistant professor of secondary English Education at Tennessee Tech. She was a secondary English and Reading teacher for sixteen years. Joan F. Kaywell is a professor of secondary English Education at the University of South Florida. She served as President of the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of NCTE (ALAN) and recognized as the original proponent of using Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the Classics. Brooke Eisenbach is an assistant professor of Middle and Secondary Education at Lesley University. She was a middle school English language arts and Adolescent Literature teacher for nine years, and an online English teacher for two years.

Inhaltsangabe

CHAPTER 1Collaborating with School Librarians to Guide Content Area
Literacies UsingYoung Adult LiteratureJulie Stepp CHAPTER 2 Ship Breaker:
Climate Change, Gene Splicing, and Coming of AgeMike DiCicco and Chris Cook
CHAPTER 3The Climate Crisis Gets Personal: Using The Carbon Diaries 2015 in
Earth ScienceDavid Nurenberg and Ray PavlikCHAPTER 4Hold Your Breath! Using
Code Orange to Teach Biology through the History,Nature, and Threat of
Infectious DiseaseStephanie Wendt and Amber Spears CHAPTER 5Harnessing the
Wind in Environmental Science: A Hands-On ApproachJennifer Dail and
Kimberly Warschaw CHAPTER 6The Chemy Called Al: Fantasy Meets FactJulie
Baker and Kelly MooreCHAPTER 7Newton in the Battle Room: Reading Ender's
Game in the Science ClassroomDavid Nurenberg and Jason Tong CHAPTER 8Closer
than Imagined: Reading Singularity in Physics ClassMilton Huling and
Patricia Daniel Jones
CHAPTER 9
Ada Lovelace: Enchantress of General Math
Sharon Kane and Christopher Kane
CHAPTER 10Critical Literacy of Graphs: A Mathematical and Freirean
Exploration of An Abundance of KatherinesRoser Giné and Summer Clark
CHAPTER 11Finding Solutions in Do The Math: Secrets, Lies, and AlgebraHolly
Garrett Anthony and Janet Kesterson Isbell CHAPTER 12From Disenchanted to
Intrigued: Unveiling the Number Devil's Tricks in Precalculus and
CalculusHolly Garrett Anthony, Nancy Kolodziej, and Jennifer R. Meadows
CHAPTER 13
Training Mathletes through The Math Olympian
Calle Friesen and Shelia Remington Jones
ABOUT THE EDITORS
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES
INDEX OF SUBJECTS