When Loss Gets Personal (eBook)

Discussing Death through Literature in the Secondary ELA Classroom

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

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2018
184 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4758-4382-8 (ISBN)

Infos

When Loss Gets Personal considers how secondary language arts teachers can thoughtfully teach literature in their classrooms in which personal deaths, like suicide, cancer, and accidents, are a significant aspect of the texts. Each chapter focuses on texts and provides activities that ask students to engage through writing, activities, and prompts.

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When Loss Gets Personal considers how secondary English language arts teachers and teacher educators can sensitively and thoughtfully teach pieces of literature in their classrooms in which death is a significant, if not central, aspect of the texts. Death is something that affects all people young and old, yet it is rarely discussed openly in classrooms despite its prevalence in texts read in 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 difficult but needed conversations about personal deaths such as cancer, accidents, suicide, etc. Each chapter in this book focuses on 1-2 texts and provides practical activities that ask students to engage with the loss through writing assignments, projects, activities, and discussion prompts in order to build empathy, understanding, and develop critically-minded and engaged students. When Loss Gets Personal 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

ForewordAuthor TBAAcknowledgementsIntroduction Michelle M. FalterPart I: SuicideChapter 1- Death and the Digital: Student Voices and Small Stories as Supplemental Texts to Thirteen Reasons WhyEmily C. PlummerChapter 2- Young Adults “Step Out” of Thirteen Reasons Why and Impulse: Moving from Personal Connection to AnalysisAlison Heron-Hruby, Mallory Aronhalt, Madison Beam, Hollibeth Francis, Danielle Jones, Haleigh Wells, and Brandie TrentChapter 3- Pursuing Mystery in A Tale for the Time Being: A Pedagogical Framework for Reading about Suicide with High School StudentsMark A. SulzerPart II: Terminal IllnessChapter 4- Accepting the Deadline and Forging Ahead: Literature through the Lens of Palliative Care in a High School English ClassroomChristian Z. Goering and Ginger GoeringChapter 5- Keeping it Real: Teaching Death Be Not Proud and This Star Won’t Go Out as Adolescent Narratives of LossMichelle M. FalterChapter 6- The Healing Power of Stories: Reading and Re-Reading A Monster CallsJon OstensonPart III- AccidentsChapter 7- The Thing about Grieving: Intellectual and Emotional Work in Ali Benjamin’s The Thing about JellyfishMary Harrell and Sharon KaneChapter 8- “Grieving Like a Normal Person”: Examining Responses to Grief in Nina LaCour’s We Are OkayJenna Spiering and Kate KedleyChapter 9- Envisioning Alternate Realities of Loss: Using Imagination to Bridge Classroom Conversations about Grief through Peter Pan and The Wendy ProjectNina R. Schoonover and Ashley A. AtkinsonChapter 10- Addressing Trauma and Death with Young Adolescents through Tears of a TigerMelissa A. Baker, Laronda Brown, and Marisa A. VicereChapter 11- Dealing with Death through Dialogue: Existentialism & Looking for AlaskaKatie RybakovaPart IV: Familial DeathChapter 12- The Intersectionality of Music and Mortality using Jason Reynold’s The Boy in the Black SuitLatasha McKinney and Rebecca MaldonadoChapter 13- Loss and the Perfection Crucible in The Bell Jar and The Catcher in the RyeAntonia Alberga-Parisi and Brittany PopeChapter 14- “My Mother is a Fish”: Exploring Grief through As I Lay DyingChea PartonAbout the EditorsAbout the ContributorsIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.11.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 38 Illustrations including: - 10 Black & White Illustrations; - 6 Tables; - 22 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: 13 Reasons Why • accident • As I lay dying • Bell Jar • boy in the black suit • Cancer • catcher in the rye • Death • Drowning • engaging high school students • English Language Arts • familial death • Grief • High School • Impluse • Language Arts • looking for Alaska • middle school • Mortality • professional development • Suicide • terminal illness • ya lit • young adult literature
• ISBN-10: 1-4758-4382-8 / 1475843828
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4758-4382-8 / 9781475843828