Full Description
Adolescents Rewrite their Worlds: Using Literature to Illustrate Writing Forms offers alternative ways teachers can engage young adolescents with the writing process using literature. The contributors discuss the values of writing in twenty-first-century classrooms and global societies, remarking that writing is first a personal exploration that is informed by cultural practices. Therefore culture is quite central in how we approach, explore, and express through any medium. The chapters consider ways to motivate students to become critically-conscious and active writers who are aware of their surrounding world, and the competing multiple discourses in which they are positioned. This requires intimate knowledge of audience, purpose, and genre and/or writing forms. We provide practical advice for teachers who wish to guide their students toward these goals. Additional features of this book include:
•Authors/Contributors' professional experiences of teaching writing using literature
•Practical pedagogical practices that may transform the way teachers teach writing and use literature
•Interviews with authors that give insight into their writing process
•Writing practices for twenty-first-century adolescents using new literacies
Contents
Contents
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Foreword: Patrick Shannon
Chapter 1: Literature: Art, Tool and More
Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
Chapter 2: The Transformative Power of Children's Literature in the Classroom
Teresa Sychterz
Chapter 3: Writing Public Service Announcements and Genre Jabs
Jason Griffith
Chapter 4: Using Photo Story to Rewrite the Classics
Jason Griffith
Chapter 5: Multi-genre Projects and the Urban Classroom: An Examination of Language and Critical Literacy
Donna-Marie Cole-Malott
Chapter 6: Digital Literacy: Writing Biographies
Jason Moser
Chapter 7: Literature Responses and Academic Writing
Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
Chapter 8: Chatting with Artists
Mary Napoli & Sychterz
Chapter 9: Graphic Novels Comes Alive in a Sixth Grade Classroom
Mary Napoli & Teresa Sychterz
Appendix A: Transformative Teaching Practices
Appendix B: Teaching Resources
Contributor's Biography
