Alice Hays

Engaging Empathy and Activating Agency (eBook, ePUB)

Young Adult Literature as a Catalyst for Action

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a step-by-step guide for teachers to implement an action-based curriculum, using young adult literature to engage students with contemporary issues. In addition to reading, ELA core standards including speaking and writing are addressed within this curriculum. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of the curriculum: helping students find their passion; guiding them in collaborative group reading of relevant novels; supporting them in researching, writing, and speaking about their topic; and helping them translate their ideas into action within their school and community. The book is set up in such a way that teachers can follow the curriculum from beginning to end-or, if they choose, incorporate only some of the chapters. The author brings the curriculum alive with teacher and student voices about their experiences. The appendix describes contemporary middle school and high school novels that address a variety of social justice topics. Ultimately, the book supports teachers as they inspire their students to examine issues with empathy, research potential solutions, and exercise agency as they take action to help address issues the students are passionate about.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781475853667
• Artikelnr.: 61288616

Autorenporträt

Alice Hays is an assistant professor of education at California State University, Bakersfield where she works with teacher candidates. As a former secondary English teacher, she sees the importance of co-creating curriculum with educators currently in the classroom in order to support students' engagement as well as inspiring their own pro-social behavior.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
Introduction
Chapter 1: Finding the Passion
Chapter 2: Reading the Novels
Chapter 3: Supporting Activities
Chapter 4: Taking Action
Chapter 5: From the Field
Appendices: Young Adult Novels by issues