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

About the Book

Book Synopsis

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

Review Quotes

The need to develop students' literacy skills and the necessity to provide students with required relevant content is a concern for most secondary teachers. In the past, English classrooms were the sole purveyor of literacy skills, but today all teachers must be content and literacy-based instructors. The editors find that most content area teachers are not familiar with relevant young adult literature, nor are they sure how to implement such literature in their classrooms. Focusing on social studies/history curriculum at the middle school level, this text offers an excellent choice of age-appropriate young adult texts and provides well-developed teaching strategies for each of the eight books highlighted here. Each chapter is authored by different teachers/ specialists steeped in pedagogy at the middle school level and offers both low- and high-tech options for implementation in the social studies/history classroom. All chapters conclude with "extension activities," a few paragraphs on "inspiring students," a concise conclusion, and a current references section. Excellent tables and figures in each chapter further illustrate the content. This is the first in a two-volume set, of which volume 2 (CH, Jan'25, 62-0203) focuses on high school instruction. Highly 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.