Full Description
Utilizing experiences and expertise from English educators, young adult literature authors, classroom teachers, and mental health professionals, this book considers how secondary English Language Arts can address school gun violence. Curated by field experts, contributions to this volume pay special attention to how a school's culture and climate affect how teachers and students communicate around difficult topics that are embedded in the curriculum, but not directly addressed. As the first book that helps teachers and teacher educators to grapple with the topic of school violence specifically in the English education classroom, this book promotes young adult literature and writing activities that address timely and unfortunately recurring events.
Contents
i. Preface by Ashley S. Boyd
ii. Introduction by Steve Bickmore, Gretchen Rumohr-Voskuil, and Shelly Shaffer
iii. Section 1: Gun Violence in Schools: What Does History Tell Us?
Chapter 1. Exploring School Violence as a YA Author by Chris Crutcher
Chapter 2. History of Violence: Guns, U.S. Education, and American Exceptionalism by Paul Thomas
Chapter 3. Unreal: How the Rest of the World Views U.S. Gun Policy by David Belbin
Chapter 4. #NeverAgain: Considering the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Student Activists' Media Representations through a Youth Lens by Chris Goering
iv. Section 2: Reading About School Violence: Books that Explore School Shootings and Their Aftermath
Chapter 5. What Do We Know? and What Can We Do?: Using Mercy Rule to Help Students Understand the Causes and Warning Signs of School Violence by Jim Blasingame
Chapter 6. Looking for Hope--and Helpers--in Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Gretchen Rumohr-Voskuil
Chapter 7. Adolescent Counter-Storytelling: Finding Youth Voice and Truth in That's Not What Happened by Shelly Shaffer.
Chapter 8. Exploring the Blame Game Through the Lens of the Scout: Reading and Writing about Give a Boy a Gun by Melissa Williamson-Pulkkinen
v. Section 3: Recovering from Trauma, Finding Allies, and Taking Action Towards Social Justice
Chapter 9. Welcoming Ghosts into Our Classroom: Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds by Sarah Donovan
Chapter 10. This is not a Drill: Exploring the After-Effects of Traumatic Events with Are you still there? by Sarah Lynn Scheerger by Maria Hernandez Goff
Chapter 11. What He Knows and What He Will Say: Voicing for Justice in All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely by Alice Hays
Chapter 12. Making Good Trouble: John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell's March Trilogy and the Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement by Meghan Sweeney
vi. Section 4: Writing Beyond Fear by Addressing the Issues
Chapter 13. On Rhetorical Analysis, Teaching, and the American Culture of Guns by Jonathan Bush
Chapter 14. Writing through Pain: How Teachers can Support Writing as Therapy for Students Processing Trauma by Jason Griffith
Chapter 15. Writing in the Margins: Students' Voices in the Aftermath of Trauma by Jim Fredricksen and Joe Dillon
vii. Section 5: Arming Teachers with Words, Stories, and Power
Chapter 16. When the Gun isn't Metaphorical: Educating Teachers in the Age of School Shootings by Melanie Shoffner
