Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1
Collaborating with School Librarians to Guide Content Area Literacies
Using Young Adult Literature
Julie Stepp

CHAPTER 2
The Habits of a Nation: Reading Chains in Middle School Social Studies
Gretchen Rumohr-Voskuil and Luke Rumohr

CHAPTER 3
Bud, Not Buddy in Social Studies: Trials and Tribulations during the Great
Depression
Malinda Hoskins Lloyd and James E. Akenson

CHAPTER 4
Using the Storm in the Barn to Study the Dust Bowl: Comics as Triggers
for Inquiry
Crag Hill and Kristy Brugar

CHAPTER 5
Understanding of the Role of Leningrad in World War II through M. T.
Anderson’s Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich
and the Siege of Leningrad
Steve Bickmore and Paul Binford

CHAPTER 6
Number the Stars: World War II and Young Adult Literature
Jason L. O’Brien and Brooke Eisenbach

CHAPTER 7
Using the Peritextual Literacy Framework with Young Adult Biographies:
Introducing Peritextual Functions with Adolescents in Social Studies
Shelbie Witte, Melissa Gross, and Don Latham

CHAPTER 8
Introducing Students to the Background of the Civil Rights Movement by
Using Mississippi Trial, 1955
Katie Irion and Chris Crowe

CHAPTER 9
Race, Racism, and Power Structures: Reading All American Boys in a Social
Studies Current Events Course
Shelly Shaffer and A. Suzie Henning


CHAPTER 10
The Eyes of van Gogh: Searching for Identity and Expression through Art
Robert Jordan and Mike DiCicco

CHAPTER 11
Understanding Theater in Drama High: The Incredible True Story of a
Brilliant Teacher, a Struggling Town, and the Magic of Theater
Jeffrey S. Kaplan and Elizabeth Brendel Horn

CHAPTER 12
A Music and ELA Project: Connections through Brendan Kiely’s The Last
True Love Story
Steve Bickmore and Isaac Bickmore
CHAPTER 13
YA Sports Literature through a Positive Psychology Framework
Nicole Sieben and Alan Brown
ABOUT THE EDITORS
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES
INDEX OF SUBJECTS

About the Author

Paula Greathouse is an assistant professor of secondary English Education at Tennessee Tech. She was a secondary English and Reading teacher for sixteen years.

Joan F. Kaywell is a professor of secondary English Education at the University of South Florida. She served as President of the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of NCTE (ALAN) and recognized as the original proponent of using Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the Classics.

Brooke Eisenbach is an assistant professor of Middle and Secondary Education at Lesley University. She was a middle school English language arts and Adolescent Literature teacher for nine years, and an online English teacher for two years.

Reviews

A wonderful exploration of the vital ways adolescent literature can open hearts and truly engage minds with the historical realities of our world. This is an important addition to every teacher’s professional library!
*Laurie Halse Anderson, New York Times bestselling author, “Speak”, “Twisted”,“Wintergirls,” and the “Seeds of America Trilogy”*

Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the Content Areas speaks to what education could be when allowed to follow its natural course.  Using YA literature brings imagination into the arenas of social studies and the humanities, and I am in good company with Albert Einstein who told us over and over that true brilliance cannot be achieved without robust imagination.
*Chris Crutcher, author of several American Library Association (ALA) Best Books for Young Adults, including five novels that appeared on ALA’s list of the 100 Best Books for Teens of the 21st Century*

This volume contains highly practical methods that combine meaningful social studies material and relevance to literacy standards. The range of topics included is imaginative and would find good use in a number of different social studies courses.
*Stephen J. Thornton, professor of Social Science Education, University of South Florida; author of the award-winning “Teaching Social Studies That Matters: Curriculum for Active Learning”*