Critical encounters in secondary English : teaching literary theory to adolescents / Deborah Appleman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Appleman, Deborah, author.

Series:

Language and literacy series (New York, N.Y.)

Language and literacy series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Study and teaching (Secondary).

English literature.

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc--Study and teaching (Secondary).

Literature.

American literature--Study and teaching (Secondary).

American literature.

Literature--Study and teaching (Secondary).

Criticism--English-speaking countries.

Criticism.

English-speaking countries.

Physical Description:

xvi, 256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Teachers College Press, Columbia University, [2015]

Summary:

In response to the emphasis placed on nonfiction and informational texts by the Common Core State Standards, the Third Edition of Critical Encounters in Secondary English provides and integrated approach to incorporating nonfiction and informational texts into the secondary literature classroom. Grounded in solid theory with new field-tested classroom activities, this new edition shows teachers how to adapt practices that have always defined good pedagogy to the new generation of standards for literature instruction. New for the Third Edition: A preface and introduction that discuss the CCSS, Suggested lists of nonfiction texts, A chapter on new historicism for interpreting nonfiction and informational sources, Classroom activities created specifically for use with nonfiction texts. Book jacket.

Contents:

What we teach and why : contemporary literary theory and adolescents

Prisms of possibilities : introducing multiple perspectives

The lens of reader response : the promise and peril of response-based pedagogy

What's class got to do with it? : Reading literature through the lens of privilege and social class

The social construction of gender : a lens of one's own

Columbus did what? : Postcolonialism in the literature classroom

The past is always new : reading with new historicism

Deconstruction : postmodern theory and the postmodern high school student

Lenses and learning styles : accommodating student plurality with theoretical plurality

Critical encounters : reading the world

Appendix : classroom activities

Selected literary texts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-244) and index.

ISBN:

9780807756232

0807756237

OCLC:

900438231

Publisher Number:

99962328688