Exploring History through Young Adult Literature

High School, V2

Edited by Paula Greathouse; Melanie Hundley and Andrew L. Hostetler

Giving students opportunities to read like historians has the potential to move their thinking and understanding of history in monumental ways. In Exploring History through Young Adult Literature: High School, Volume 2 each chapter presented in this volume provides high school readers with approaches and activities for pairing a young adult novel with specific historical events, eras, or movements. Chapters include suggested instructional activities for before, during, and after reading as well as extension activities that move beyond the text. Each chapter concludes with a final discussion on how the spotlighted YA text can inspire students to be moved to take informed action within their communities or beyond. Through the reading and study of the young adult novels students are guided to a deeper understanding of history while increasing their literacy practices.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 256 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½

978-1-4758-7349-8 • Hardback • July 2024 • $140.00 • (£108.00)

978-1-4758-7350-4 • Paperback • July 2024 • $56.00 • (£43.00)

Series: Adolescent Literature as a Completement to the Content Area

Subjects: Education / History, Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / General, Young Adult Fiction / General

Exploring History through Young Adult Literature

High School, V2

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Summary

Giving students opportunities to read like historians has the potential to move their thinking and understanding of history in monumental ways. In Exploring History through Young Adult Literature: High School, Volume 2 each chapter presented in this volume provides high school readers with approaches and activities for pairing a young adult novel with specific historical events, eras, or movements. Chapters include suggested instructional activities for before, during, and after reading as well as extension activities that move beyond the text. Each chapter concludes with a final discussion on how the spotlighted YA text can inspire students to be moved to take informed action within their communities or beyond. Through the reading and study of the young adult novels students are guided to a deeper understanding of history while increasing their literacy practices.

Details

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 256 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½

978-1-4758-7349-8 • Hardback • July 2024 • $140.00 • (£108.00)

978-1-4758-7350-4 • Paperback • July 2024 • $56.00 • (£43.00)

Series: Adolescent Literature as a Completement to the Content Area

Subjects: Education / History, Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / General, Young Adult Fiction / General

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Teaching about the Progressive Era through the Story of Clara Lemlich: Audacity
Emma Thacker, Rebecca Mueller, and Lauren Colley
Chapter 2: Black Birds in the Sky: Teaching the Tulsa Race Massacre Through Peritextual Analysis
Shelbie Witte, Melissa Gross, Don Latham, and Shanedra Nowell
Chapter 3: Refugees, Displacement, and the Object-Idea Connection: Teaching WWII and the Holocaust through Refugee
Jeremy Hilburn and Denise Ousley-Exum
Chapter 4: The Nightingale: Discovering Who We Are and Who We Want to Be
Amber Spears and Luke Anderson
Chapter 5: We Are Not Free: Contextualizing, Modeling, and Extending
Emily S. Pendergrass and George L. Boggs
Chapter 6: Exploring Asian American History through Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Lin Wu and Kenneth Carano
Chapter 7: Addressing the Intersections of Racial and Sexual Identities in Last Night at the Telegraph Club
J.B. Mayo and Scott Sundstrom
Chapter 8: Coming Out in the Classroom: Using Pitman’s The Stonewall Riots to Forefront LGBTQ+ and Civil Rights in U.S. History
Matthew Kruger-Ross, Laura Renzi, and Pauline Schmidt
Chapter 9: The War Abroad and The War at Home: Examining the Vietnam War using Crowe’s Death Coming Up the Hill
Melanie Hundley, Sarah Burriss, Jalexia Andrews and Savannah Nocera
Chapter 10: Breaking Silences: An Historical Inquiry Design Approach to Reading The Fountains of Silence
Elizabeth A. Shaver, Jason D. DeHart, Rachelle S. Savitz
Chapter 11: An Inquiry into the History of Reproductive Rights: Jane Against the World: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights
Annie McMahon Whitlock and Kristy A. Brugar About the Editors
About the Editors
About the Authors
Index

Reviews

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.

— Choice Reviews