Full Description
Encouraging Activism in Secondary English: Reading and Writing for Social Justice outlines a framework to encourage social justice teaching in the secondary English classroom by providing teachers with valuable materials for designing a curriculum that fosters social justice and strategies that can be taught to encourage reading and writing that empower students to take action on social issues that matter to them. Each chapter focuses on a potential anchor text, along with possible pairings, and offers specific suggestions for ways to teach and create potential activities and assignments that foster social justice. Anchor texts include works such as The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton, Night by Elie Wiesel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, and 1984 by George Orwell. The chapters include information about historical and contemporary social movements such as the Occupy Movement, protests of the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Greta Thunberg's climate crisis movement. Each chapter then offers specific suggestions for helping students to engage in critical inquiry, discussions, and reflection on their own experiences while reading.
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Framework
Chapter 2: Reading The Outsiders Through a Social Class Lens: Using Critical Inquiry to Investigate Causes of Social Class Inequality
Chapter 3: Night, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, I am Malala, and the Power of the Public Narrative
Chapter 4: Representation and Power: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Marrow Thieves
Chapter 5: Dystopian Novels and Neoliberalism: Reading 1984 and Critiquing Standardized Testing to Make Change
Conclusion
Appendix
References
About the Author
Index
