Exploring History through Young Adult Literature

Middle School
Herausgeber: Greathouse, Paula; Hostetler, Andrew L.; Hundley, Melanie

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Produktbeschreibung

Exploring History through Young Adult Literature: Middle School provides readers with approaches and activities for pairing a young adult novel with specific historical events, eras, or movements

Produktdetails

• Adolescent Literature as a Completement to the Content Area
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9781475871425
• ISBN-10: 1475871422
• Artikelnr.: 69719894

Autorenporträt

Paula Greathouse, Ph.D., is a clinical assistant professor at the University of West Florida where she works in the doctoral program. She was a secondary English and Reading teacher for sixteen years. Andrew L. Hostetler, Ph.D., is an associate professor of the practice of social studies education at Vanderbilt University. His teaching and scholarship focuses on social studies methods, literacy in social studies, human geography, and teaching difficult discourses for community engagement and social change. He was a secondary social studies teacher for nine years. Melanie Hundley, Ph. D., is a professor of the practice of English education at Vanderbilt University. Her teaching and scholarship focuses on digital and multimodal composition, teacher preparation, and young adult literature. She teaches writing methods courses and young adult literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Migrating for Freedom: The Oregon Trail, Race, and Sarah
Journeys West
Mindy Spearman and Susan Cridland-Hughes
Chapter 2: Evaluating Settler Colonialism and Understanding Historical and
Contemporary Experiences of Indigenous Peoples in America through In the
Footsteps of Crazy Horse
Jacki Hedlund Tyler and Shelly Shaffer
Chapter 3: Flooded with Possibilities: Exploring Ann Burg's Requiem for
Johnstown
Bryan Ripley Crandall, Chelsea Leonard Crowley, and Susan James
Chapter 4: Digital Space Storylines and A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race
Riot of 1919
Andrew L. Hostetler, Catherine Hodges and Leah Schwartz
Chapter 5: Exploring the Forced Migration Experience Using the Middle
Grades Novel Refugee
Brooke Hardin and Rebecca Mueller
Chapter 6: Broadening Narratives of 1920s History: Ophie's Ghosts in the
Middle School Social Studies Classroom
Andrea LeMahieu Glaws and Emily Johns- O'Leary
Chapter 7: The Uprising of 20,000: Examining Social Movements Through
Historical Fiction
Erin V. Piedmont and Kathryn M. Obenchain
Chapter 8: Reading Lifting as We Climb: Black Women's Battle for the Ballot
Box in Middle School Social Studies
Amy Palmeri
Chapter 9: Using Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett
Till Case to Engage the U.S. Civil Rights Movement
Chris Crowe
Chapter 10: Using Ghost Boys in the Practice of Critical Witnessing: From
Emmett Till to Tamir Rice
Antonio J. Castro, Sarah D. Reid, and Jason Williamson
Chapter 11: This is the Story of a Girl: Sharon Robinson's Journey to Youth
Activism and Beyond
Abigail Stebbins and Paige Garpstas
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Index