When Loss Gets Personal

Discussing Death through Literature in the Secondary ELA Classroom
Herausgeber: Bickmore, Steven T.; Falter, Michelle M.

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Produktbeschreibung

When Loss Gets Personal considers how secondary English language arts teachers and teacher educators can sensitively and thoughtfully teach pieces of literature in their classrooms in which death is a significant, if not central, aspect of the texts. Death is something that affects all people young and old, yet it is rarely discussed openly in classrooms despite its prevalence in texts read in ELA classrooms. Whether it is canonical or contemporary literature, middle grades or young adult literature, fiction, nonfiction, or graphic novels, literature provides a vehicle to have difficult but needed conversations about personal deaths such as cancer, accidents, suicide, etc. Each chapter in this book focuses on 1-2 texts and provides practical activities that ask students to engage with the loss through writing assignments, projects, activities, and discussion prompts in order to build empathy, understanding, and develop critically-minded and engaged students. When Loss Gets Personal will be of interest to English language arts teachers, teacher educators, librarians, and scholars who wish to explore with their students the complex emotions that revolve around discussing deaths that occur in literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9781475843811
• ISBN-10: 147584381X
• Artikelnr.: 53688393

Autorenporträt

Edited by Michelle M. Falter and Steven T. Bickmore

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Author TBA Acknowledgements Introduction Michelle M. Falter Part
I: Suicide Chapter 1- Death and the Digital: Student Voices and Small
Stories as Supplemental Texts to Thirteen Reasons Why Emily C. Plummer
Chapter 2- Young Adults "Step Out" of Thirteen Reasons Why and Impulse:
Moving from Personal Connection to Analysis Alison Heron-Hruby, Mallory
Aronhalt, Madison Beam, Hollibeth Francis, Danielle Jones, Haleigh Wells,
and Brandie Trent Chapter 3- Pursuing Mystery in A Tale for the Time Being:
A Pedagogical Framework for Reading about Suicide with High School Students
Mark A. Sulzer Part II: Terminal Illness Chapter 4- Accepting the Deadline
and Forging Ahead: Literature through the Lens of Palliative Care in a High
School English Classroom Christian Z. Goering and Ginger Goering Chapter 5-
Keeping it Real: Teaching Death Be Not Proud and This Star Won't Go Out as
Adolescent Narratives of Loss Michelle M. Falter Chapter 6- The Healing
Power of Stories: Reading and Re-Reading A Monster Calls Jon Ostenson Part
III- Accidents Chapter 7- The Thing about Grieving: Intellectual and
Emotional Work in Ali Benjamin's The Thing about Jellyfish Mary Harrell and
Sharon Kane Chapter 8- "Grieving Like a Normal Person": Examining Responses
to Grief in Nina LaCour's We Are Okay Jenna Spiering and Kate Kedley
Chapter 9- Envisioning Alternate Realities of Loss: Using Imagination to
Bridge Classroom Conversations about Grief through Peter Pan and The Wendy
Project Nina R. Schoonover and Ashley A. Atkinson Chapter 10- Addressing
Trauma and Death with Young Adolescents through Tears of a Tiger Melissa A.
Baker, Laronda Brown, and Marisa A. Vicere Chapter 11- Dealing with Death
through Dialogue: Existentialism & Looking for Alaska Katie Rybakova Part
IV: Familial Death Chapter 12- The Intersectionality of Music and Mortality
using Jason Reynold's The Boy in the Black Suit Latasha McKinney and
Rebecca Maldonado Chapter 13- Loss and the Perfection Crucible in The Bell
Jar and The Catcher in the Rye Antonia Alberga-Parisi and Brittany Pope
Chapter 14- "My Mother is a Fish": Exploring Grief through As I Lay Dying
Chea Parton About the Editors About the Contributors Index