Full Description
This book considers the practical intersection between digital media and young adult texts. In these books, teachers and teacher educators offer practical examples for engaging students with crafting critical responses to young adult literature through digital spaces. It examines how teachers can use these spaces to help students encounter, evaluate, and engage in the world in which they live. Young adult literature offers a vehicle through which students can discuss and explore the world in a more removed manner, while digital media offers a paradigm for helping students craft multimodal responses that extend beyond the traditional literary essay. This intersection asks teachers to consider how they are asking students to interact with the texts they read. It asks them to invite students to enter and contribute to broader conversations through the production of their own texts. This book illustrates pedagogical principles in practice, showing what is possible in literature study in classrooms.
Contents
Foreword
Leslie Rush
Introduction: Critical Engagements with Literature: Guiding Youth as They Read, Compose, and Participate in the World
Shelbie Witte and Jennifer S. Dail
Part I: Using Young Adult Literature and Digital Spaces to Encounter the World
Chapter 1- Emojis, #Hashtags, and Texting, Oh My!: Remixing Shakespeare in the ELA Classroom
Michelle M. Falter and Crystal L. Beach
Chapter 2- Transmedia Stories in the English Classroom
Rikki Roccanti Overstreet
Chapter 3- Remixing Reader Response with Digital, Mobile, and Multimodal Literacies
Lesley Roessing and Julie Warner
Part II: Using Young Adult Literature and Digital Spaces to Evaluate the World
Chapter 4- We Too are Connecticut: Digital Ubuntu with Matt de la Pena's We Were Here
Bryan Ripley Crandall, Kate Bedard, Paula Fortuna, Kim Herzog, Shaun Mitchell, Jennifer von Wahlde, and Megan Zabilansky
Chapter 5- Becoming a Global and Digital Citizen through the Power of Young Adult Literature Kathryn Bailey
Part III: Using Young Adult Literature and Digital Spaces to Engage in the World
Chapter 6- Participating in Literacy and the Outside World: Consuming, Composing, and Sharing Graphic Narratives
Mike P. Cook and Brandon L. Sams
Chapter 7- Remixing Literacy for Justice and Hope
Breanne Huston
Chapter 8- #iread #iwrite #iteach: Modeling the Use of Technology, Participatory Culture, and Critical Inquiry with YA Literature in the ELA Classroom
Steffany Comfort Maher
About the Editors
About the Contributors
