Exploring History through Young Adult Literature - (Adolescent Literature as a Completement to the Content Area) (Hardcover)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

Exploring History through Young Adult Literature: High School, Volume 1 provides high school readers with approaches and activities for pairing a young adult novel with specific historical events, eras, or movements.

Review Quotes

Today's content area teachers must also provide literacy instruction in their classrooms. Although many value using relevant young adult fiction/nonfiction to illustrate the concepts involved in high school history/social studies curriculum, most instructors are unfamiliar with what books could be used in their classrooms, nor do they know how to incorporate this age-appropriate literature with nonfiction content area instruction. This volume, the second in a two-volume set, focuses on material specific to the high school classroom. [Of] particular note is the concept of peritextual analysis introduced in chapter 2 and carried through several other chapters in this volume. [This] text is far more sophisticated in tone and content. Each chapter offers instructional activities for before, during, and after reading the specified young adult text(s). All chapters include appropriate tables and figures and conclude with the same offerings contained in volume 1. Recommended. Professionals.

About the Author

Paula Greathouse, Ph.D., is a clinical assistant professor at the University of West Florida where she works in the doctoral program. She was a secondary English and Reading teacher for sixteen years.
Andrew L. Hostetler, Ph.D., is an associate professor of the practice of social studies education at Vanderbilt University. His teaching and scholarship focuses on social studies methods, literacy in social studies, human geography, and teaching difficult discourses for community engagement and social change. He was a secondary social studies teacher for nine years.
Melanie Hundley, Ph. D., is a professor of the practice of English education at Vanderbilt University. Her teaching and scholarship focuses on digital and multimodal composition, teacher preparation, and young adult literature. She teaches writing methods courses and young adult literature.