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    Chapter 1: Struggling Readers and Reader Response: Speak and Athletic Shorts.
    Magen Panfil
    Chapter 2: Concentric Circles of Interest: Widening Student Responses to M.T.
    Anderson's Feed through Student Book Club Discussions
    Susan Koukis
    Chapter 3: Culturally Situated Response and Narrator Reliability: Monster, Speak, and The First Part Last
    Tracey Ward
    Section 2: LITERARY PLAY: NAVIGATING CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES IN THE CLASSROOM
    Chapter 4: Narrative Subjectivity in Walter Dean Myers' Monster
    Frank Beickelman
    Chapter 5: Who Wields the Words and Why: Analyzing Avi's True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle and Jennifer Donnelly's A Northern Light from Rhetorical and Feminist Perspectives
    Sarah Ressler Wright
    Chapter 6: Performing A House on Mango Street: Playing with Curriculum to Reduce Resistance to Feminism in the High School English Classroom
    Patricia Zumhagen
    Chapter 7: Shades of Power: Deconstructing Relationships in Lester's Othello
    Angela Beumer Johnson and Stacey Ciancio
    Chapter 8: Montana 1948: Crossing Boundaries with Queer Theory
    Jill Smith
    Section III: EXPANDING THE MEANING OF "LITERATURE": GRAPHIC FICTION, VISUAL ARTS, HYPERTEXT, AND FILM
    Chapter 9: Graphic Young Adult Novels: Deconstructing and (Re) Interpreting
    Persepolis from a Cultural Critical Perspective
    Sean Conners
    Chapter 10: Enhancing Literary Reading through Visual and Language Arts Practices
    Michelle Zoss and Sherelle Jones
    Chapter 11: Hypertext and Young Adult Literature
    Melanie Kittrell Hundley
    Chapter 12: Opportunities for Literary "Play" through Comparative Analysis of Film and Book: The Outsiders and Speak
    Janet Evans Worthington
    Section IV: THEORIES AND APPLICATIONS REVISITED
    Chapter 13: Revisiting Interpretive Play in Classroom Contexts: A Conversation
    Mark Faust, Theresa Rogers, and Anna O. Soter Epilogue: The Evolution of Young Adult Literature and Its Place in Literary
    Discussions: A Personal Retrospective
    Maia Pank Mertz
    APPENDICES: FURTHER IDEAS FOR THE CLASSROOM



New! November 2007!
A fresh, exciting approach to teaching and analyzing current titles in Young Adult Literature!
Interpretive Play: Using Critical Perspectives to Teach Young Adult Literature
Grades 4-12
Anna O. Soter, Ohio State University Mark Faust, University of Georgia Theresa M. Rogers, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

A useful tool for in-service and pre-service teachers, undergraduate or graduate classes, or teacher-educators who want fresh approaches to teaching and analyzing Young Adult Literature, this new book describes powerful, exciting practical applications of complex ideas with Post-Structuralist theoretical approaches to literature. These critical perspectives will help readers interpret literature, foster an understanding of some of the major theoretical issues in today's culture, and allow for an open dialogue in the classroom. The authors accurately adapt these dense critical perspectives and theories into readily available classroom strategies. Some of the most recurring critical perspectives for analyzing literature in the volume are: Louise Rosenblatt's Reader Response criticism, Feminist criticism, Deconstruction, Queer Theory, and analyses of Power.  The authors' wide range of texts includes graphic novels, hypertexts, and film adaptations as supplements for Young Adult novels.   

    • References are compiled at the end of each chapter so that extra materials can be sought easily.
    • Examples of students work, classroom case studies as vignettes and discussion dialogue cues can be found throughout the volume.
    • Provides activities which will be easy to incorporate into any Young Adult Literature classroom.
 

2008 Paperbound 296pp est. ISBN: 978-1-933760-13-1 Order #: 4199 $43.95

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