When Loss Gets Personal: Discussing Death through Literature in the Secondary ELA Classroom - Softcover

Falter, Michelle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 147584381X ISBN 13: 9781475843811

Publisher: RL, 2018

Synopsis

When Loss Gets Personal considers how secondary language arts teachers can thoughtfully teach literature in their classrooms in which personal deaths, like suicide, cancer, and accidents, are a significant aspect of the texts. Each chapter focuses on texts and provides activities that ask students to engage through writing, activities, and prompts.

About this title

About the Authors

Michelle M. Falter is an assistant professor of English education at North Carolina State University. Michelle’s scholarship focuses on dialogic, critical, and feminist pedagogies, emotion in the teaching of literature and writing in secondary classrooms, English teacher education, and adolescent literature. She has previously co-edited the book Teaching Outside the Box but Inside the Standards: Making Room for Dialogue with Teachers College Press.

Steven T. Bickmore, PhD, is a professor of English Education at UNLV and maintains a weekly academic blog on YA literature (http://www.yawednesday.com/). He is a past editor of The ALAN Review (2009-2014) and a founding editor of Study and Scrutiny: Research in Young Adult Literature.

Edition details

• Publisher: RL
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 147584381X
• ISBN 13: 9781475843811
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 210