Full Description
More than 670,000 middle school teachers (grades 6-8) are responsible for educating nearly 13 million students in public and private schools. Thousands more teachers join these ranks annually, especially in the South and West, where ethnic populations are ballooning. Teachers and administrators seek practical, time-efficient ways of teaching language arts to 21st-century adolescents in increasingly multicultural, technologically diverse, socially networked communities. They seek sound understanding, practical advice, and proven strategies in order to connect diverse literature to 21st-century societies while meeting state and professional standards like the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts. This book offers strategies and resources that work.
Contents
Dedication
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter One - Scoping Out the Year in Preview - Plan Now To Be Effective and Efficient
Chapter Two - Unpacking the Story and Understanding the Genre
Chapter Three -Crossing into Novel Territory - Reading Longer Texts
Chapter Four - Teaching Classical Fiction: Where the Ghosts of the Past Speak Today
Chapter Five - Opening the Past Imaginatively: Teaching Historical Fiction
Chapter Six - Taking T.I.M.E. to Teach Poetry
Chapter Seven - Playing It Right: Reading, Writing About and Performing Drama
Afterward-Bon Voyage - Acknowledge the Challenge and Maximize the Opportunity
Appendix - Teacher Resources
Bibliography
