Moving Beyond Personal Loss to Societal Grieving (eBook)

Discussing Death's Social Impact through Literature in the Secondary ELA Classroom

Steven T. Bickmore, Michelle M. Falter (Herausgeber)

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2018
192 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4758-4385-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Moving Beyond Personal Loss to Societal Grieving considers how secondary English language arts teachers can thoughtfully teach pieces of literature in their classrooms in which large-scale deaths are a significant aspect of the texts. Each chapter provides practical activities for students to engage with loss through writing, projects, and prompts.

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Moving Beyond Personal Loss to Societal Grieving considers how secondary English language arts teachers and teacher educators can sensitively and thoughtfully teach pieces of literature in their classrooms in which large-scale deaths are a significant, if not central, aspect of the texts. As mass shootings and violence against black and brown bodies increase, and issues such as AIDS, war, and genocide remain important to discuss as part of a shared, critical, and social consciousness, this book provides resources for educators to directly tackle and discuss these topics through the texts they read in their ELA classrooms. Whether it is canonical or contemporary literature, middle grades or young adult literature, fiction, nonfiction, or graphic novels, literature provides a vehicle to have these difficult but needed conversations about not only the personal but social effects of death and grief in our society. Each chapter in this book focuses on 1-2 texts and provides practical activities that ask students to engage with death, dying, and loss through writing assignments, projects, activities, and discussion prompts in order to build empathy, understanding, and develop critically-minded and engaged students. Moving Beyond Personal Loss to Societal Grieving will be of interest to English language arts teachers, teacher educators, librarians, and scholars who wish to explore with their students the complex emotions that revolve around discussing deaths that occur in literature.

Autor

Michelle M. Falter is an assistant professor of English education at North Carolina State University. Michelle’s scholarship focuses on dialogic, critical, and feminist pedagogies, emotion in the teaching of literature and writing in secondary classrooms, English teacher education, and adolescent literature. She has previously co-edited the book Teaching Outside the Box but Inside the Standards: Making Room for Dialogue with Teachers College Press. Steven T. Bickmore is an associate professor of English education at the University of Nevada and a past editor of The ALAN Review (2009-2014). He maintains a weekly academic blog on YA Literature—Dr. Bickmore's YA Wednesday (http://www.yawednesday.com/) and his research includes how English teachers negotiate the teaching of literature using young adult literature, especially around the issues of race, class, and gender.

Inhalt

ForewordTBAAcknowledgements IntroductionSteven T. BickmorePart I: Grief and Facing MortalityChapter 1- Disruption of Adolescent-Adult and Death-Life Binaries: The Experiences of Elizabeth Hall in ElsewhereMark LewisChapter 2- Confronting Death and Mourning in the Liminal through Short StoriesRené Saldaña, Jr.Chapter 3- Mourning a Missing Generation: Using Pedro and Me to Teach the AIDS Epidemic and to ACT UP in ELA ClassroomsJames Joshua ColemanPart II: MurderChapter 4- When it Feels Like Death, but It Ain’t: Spirit-murder in All American BoysStephanie P. JonesChapter 5- The Hate U Give: Experiencing Death and Grief in the Face of Social JusticeTiye Naeemah CortChapter 6- Discussing Death in Getting Away with Murder in Order to Understand a MovementJackie MercerPart III: Mass TragediesChapter 7- Finding Closure through Mockingbird: When A Community Tragedy is PersonalLindsay SchneiderChapter 8- This is Where It Ends: How Studying School Shootings from Multiple Perspectives Promotes Critical LiteracyShelly Shaffer, Amye Ellsworth, and Kellie CrawfordChapter 9- Graphic Young Adult Literature Representations of Brutalized Communities: Exploring Loss through Don Brown’s Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina & New OrleansShelbie Witte and Jennifer S. DailPart IV: War And GenocideChapter 10- Discussing War-related Death and Trauma through Storytelling in The Things They CarriedGretchen Rumohr-Voskuil and Deborah Vriend Van DuinenChapter 11- Discussing War and Death with A Separate Peace by John KnowlesLeilya Pitre and Steven BickmoreChapter 12- “We Were Dangerous, and Brainwashed to Kill”: Death and Resilience in A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy SoldierJanine Julianna Darragh and Ashley S. BoydChapter 13- Teaching the Act of Witnessing in Maus and NightCrystal Chen Lee and Cathlin GouldingChapter 14- When a Character Dies: Comfort and Discomfort in Refugee Book GroupsSarah J. DonovanAbout the EditorsAbout the ContributorsIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.11.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 40 Illustrations including: - 6 Black & White Illustrations; - 15 Tables; - 19 Text Boxes.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: AIDS • Death • Elsewhere • engaging high school students • English Language Arts • facing mortality • Genocide • Grief • High School • Hurricanes • langauge arts • Mass tragedies • Maus • middle school • Mortality • Murder • natural disasters • professional development • Refugees • School shootings • The Hate U Give • war • ya lit • young adult literature
• ISBN-10: 1-4758-4385-2 / 1475843852
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4758-4385-9 / 9781475843859