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Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the Classics:
Addressing Critical Issues in Today's Classrooms

by Joan F. Kaywell, Ed., Professor of English Education, University of South Florida.

Learn how to use Young Adult Literature and classics to teach about world diversity in your classroom!

Consistent with Kaywell's Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the Classics series, this book is comprised of revised chapters from the four previous editions with new resources and additional strategies that involve the use of media and technology. Additionally, this book provides updated information so that teachers may address critical issues and create an understanding that goes beyond the classroom and into today's diverse world.

2010 Paperbound 240pp. est. ISBN: 978-1-933760-30-8 Order #: 488 $ 31.95

Table of Contents

Chapter One:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Prejudice, and Young Adult Literature
Jo Higgins, Joan Fowinkle, & Joan F. Kaywell

Students may choose from over 70 young adult novels that address a major category of prejudice-racial, age, class/status, religious/lifestyle, and disabilities. Numerous individual and/or group projects are provided to help students thematically connect their YA books with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Chapter Two:
The Miracle Worker and Young Adult Literature about Disabilities
Patricia P. Kelly, Joan F. Kaywell, Michelle Dixon, Kara K. Larson, Jennifer Loadman & Tara Foote Lorentson

Beginning with two nonfiction essays as read-alouds, then participating in hands-on activities and reading several YA novels, students acquire an understanding and empathy for people with disabilities. By "walking in another's shoes," students vicariously experience the feelings, difficulties, and courage of characters' struggles.

Chapter Three:
Introducing To Kill a Mockingbird with Collaborative Group Reading of Related Young Adult Novels
Bonnie O. Ericson, Joan F. Kaywell, & Leandra Sambrine Vera

Through the use of literature circles and film clips, this unit will illustrate how seven YA novels can prepare students for reading and understanding To Kill a Mockingbird. The YA novels include The Trial by Jen Bryant; Mississippi Trial, 1955 by Chris Crowe; Francie by Karen English; Witness by Karen Hesse; The Legend of Buddy Bush by Shelia M. Moses; Monster by Walter Dean Myers; and Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt.

Chapter Four:
Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl: World War II and Young Adult Literature
Joan F. Kaywell

Seven different groups-other children's experiences, the concentration camps, others who risked their lives, the Japanese and Japanese-American perspectives, the soldiers' stories, other holocausts, and contemporary prejudice-with over 75 annotated young adult books from which to choose are included in this chapter that brings depth and breadth to the teaching of the Holocaust.

Chapter Five:
The Struggle to Emerge: Exploring the Conflicts of Race and Family Using Crossing Jordan as a Bridge to A Raisin in the Sun
April C. Templeton & Joan F. Kaywell

Templeton shares personal anecdotes to show how prejudice is taught, and then the authors illustrate how students' use of response letters to respond to ideas presented in Crossing Jordan and then in A Raisin in the Sun help them think for themselves on issues of racism and bigotry.

Chapter Six:
Using Young Adult Literature to Develop a Comprehensive World Literature Course with Several Classics
Joan F. Kaywell

In a convention style format, teachers can offer a comprehensive world literature course to their students. Over 100 annotated YA titles from all over the world with movies, poetry, and classic references put cultural understanding at a teacher's fingertips. Together, with understanding, we can "create peace."

References
Contemporary and Classics Bibliography
Young Adult Bibliography
Author and Title Index
Subject Index