Inquiry Units for English Language Arts

Inspiring Literacy Learning, Grades 6-12
Herausgeber: Bouque, Andrew; Kahn, Elizabeth A.; Forde, Dawn

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Produktbeschreibung

Inquiry Units for English Language Arts includes examples of units of instruction for English language arts. They explore concepts that adolescents typically find consequential-identity, justice, response to authority, freedom, and equity. Readers can adapt the units immediately or use them as models for constructing their own inquiry-based units.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 282g
• ISBN-13: 9781475850383
• ISBN-10: 1475850387
• Artikelnr.: 58025615

Autorenporträt

Dawn Forde is a teacher at Adlai E. Stevenson High School and has been learning from her students for almost twenty years. She has presented at local, state, and national conferences, primarily focusing on inquiry and its effects on student engagement. Andrew Bouque teaches English at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois. In his twenty-one years in public high schools, he has worked to build classroom communities for students to find, develop, and refine their spoken voices and craft arguments that matter. Elizabeth A. Kahn taught English language arts for 36 years and served as English department chair; she now teaches in the English teacher education program at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois. She has co-authored several books, including Discussion Pathways to Literacy Learning (NCTE 2018), The Dynamics of Writing Instruction (Heinemann 2010), and Writing About Literature (NCTE 1984 and 2009, updated edition). Thomas M. McCann is a professor of English at Northern Illinois University, where he contributes to the teacher licensure program. His books include Transforming Talk into Text and Literacy and History in Action (Teachers College Press) and the co-authored Talking in Class (NCTE, 2006), The Dynamics of Writing Instruction (Heinemann, 2010), and Teaching Matters Most (Corwin Press, 2012). Carolyn Calhoun Walter taught English students for thirty years at both public and private high schools and now supervises student teachers for Northern Illinois University. Ms. Walter is a regular presenter at national conferences and has co-authored Designing and Sequencing Pre-Writing Activities and Writing about Literature, and Discussion Pathways to Literacy Learning.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Foreword Peter Smagorinsky, The University of Georgia
Chapter 1: An Invitation to Inquiry for English Language Arts Thomas M.
McCann Chapter 2: An Inquiry into What It Means to Be Human Jane Feeney
Kade Chapter 3: An Inquiry into Atoning for Mistakes and Achieving
Redemption Gabrielle Caputo and Shannon McMullen Chapter 4: An Inquiry into
Ethics and Rebellion Dawn Forde and Thomas M. McCann Chapter 5: An Inquiry
into Confronting Stereotypes and Prejudice Chanelle M. Savich and Kristen
M. Linneburger Chapter 6: An Inquiry into Equity and Democracy Tamara
Joffe-Notier Chapter 7: An Inquiry into Satire and Social Reform Julianna
Cucci, Zanfina Rrahmani Muja, and Laurie McGowan Chapter 8: Designing Units
for Inquiry: Concluding Thoughts Elizabeth A. Kahn About the Editors About
the Contributors Acknowledgements