Full Description
This text offers 6th - 12th grade ELA educators guided instructional approaches for including queer-themed young adult (YA) literature in the English language arts classroom. Chapters are authored by leading researchers and theorists in young adult literature, specifically queer-themed YA . Each chapter spotlights the reading of one queer-themed YA novel, and offer pre-, during-, and after reading activities that guide students to a deeper understanding of the content while increasing their literacy practices. While each chapter focuses on a specific queer-themed YA novel, readers will discover the many opportunities for cross-disciplinary study.
Contents
CHAPTER 1Michael Cart and Joan F. KaywellCHAPTER 2: Collaborating with School Librarians Julie Stepp CHAPTER 3: Teaching Geography Club to Reduce Homophobia and BullyingVictor Malo-JuveraCHAPTER 4: Encouraging Reader Empathy with October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard Katie R. PeelCHAPTER 5: Loving Self, Loving Others: Queer Youth, Eating Disorders, and The Art of StarvingGretchen Rumohr-VoskuilCHAPTER 6: Exploring Sexuality, Gender, Nationality, and Religion through Sara Farizan's If You Could Be Mine Mollie V. Blackburn and Youmna DeiriCHAPTER 7: Analyzing the Text, Analyzing the World: Developing Students' Critical Literacies with Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe Ashley S. Boyd and Ruben ZecenaCHAPTER 8: Seeing the Queer South: A Teacher's Guide to Honor Girl and the Teaching of Graphic Memoir James Joshua Coleman CHAPTER 9: Queer Adolescent Memoir: Real Lives Matter Crag Hill and Alex RuggiersCHAPTER 10: The Queer Possibilities of Romeo and/or Juliet Briana Asmus and Christopher NagleCHAPTER 11: Better Nate than Ever: Boy Meets BroadwayAmber Spears and Kristy L. ReaganCHAPTER 12: What Defines Me? Exploring Identity through One True Way in the Middle Level ELA ClassroomBrooke Eisenbach, Paula Greathouse, LeAnn TaylorCHAPTER 13: Challenging the Gender Binary while Studying Author's Craft in FreakboyLesley Roessing CHAPTER 14: Girls with Ambition and Heart: Teaching Malinda Lo's Huntress Summer Melody PennellCHAPTER 15: Turning up and Tuning in to Lizard Radio: Discussing Gender Fluidity and Gender Queerness through Speculative Young Adult Fiction Michelle M. FalterCHAPTER 16: Queering Conventional Narrative Elements with Lily and Dunkin Jenell Igeleke Penn, Caroline T. Clark, and Jill M. WilliamsCHAPTER 17: Bearing Witness to Our Being and Becoming in Middle School with Parrotfish Sarah J. DonovanCHAPTER 18: Trans*Forming the Middle Level English Language Arts Classroom: Reading George to Promote Ally-shipJudith HaynCHAPTER 19: Learning to Live Authentically: Studying Transgender Youth through Being EmilyRachel A. Roloff and Ashley S. BoydABOUT THE EDITORS ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS REFERENCESSUBJECT INDEX
