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Personal narrative, revised : writing love and agency in the high school classroom / Bronwyn Clare LaMay ; foreword by Andrea A. Lunsford.
Van Pelt Library LB1631 .L2195 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- LaMay, Bronwyn Clare, author.
- Series:
- Language and literacy series (New York, N.Y.)
- Language and literacy series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching (Secondary)--United States.
- English language.
- English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching (Secondary).
- United States.
- Education--Biographical methods.
- Education.
- Physical Description:
- x, 147 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Teachers College Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- In this inspirational book, Bronwyn LaMay shows readers how to transform classrooms and schools into places where youth can explore the intersection between literacy and their lives. This book is the culmination of a literacy curriculum that the author and her high school students wrote dialogically, beginning with their attempts to define love. Through real-life classroom examples, they demonstrate how an innovative curriculum that intertwines personal and academic engagement can create space for students to explore their identities, connect to literary texts, and develop agency as writers and thinkers. LaMay shows how personal narratives can help students rebuild their fractured relationships with schools, and envision writing and academic achievement as playing a role in their futures. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Defining School Gravity 1
- School Gravity in the Context of EI Cuento 3
- Love and Agency in Our Stories: Surviving "Whole" 8
- Personal Narrative: "Procedures for Life-Making" 10
- Storying the Academic Curriculum 14
- Differentiating Revision 16
- 2 Writing Love 19
- Why Love? Becoming Love Literate 20
- Love Metaphors and Life Outlooks 23
- Shared Writing: "You Realize You're Not Alone" 25
- Love's Literary Elements 28
- My Narrative Work: Writing to "Face It" 31
- 3 Writing the Personal-Academic School
- Gravity Connection 42
- Blending Genres: "A Writer is Just a Person" 43
- A Sequence of Love Papers 47
- Alisha's Academic Stories 48
- Nate: Making a "Whole Story" 51
- Sofia and Maizie: "Giving Something Back That's Real" 53
- Kylie's Narrative "Limbo" and Other Themes 58
- 4 Revising Why Me 62
- Running, Writing, and Seeking the Story Beneath the Story 64
- Narrative Revision and Stories of Trauma 67
- The "Why Me" Story 71
- Revising "Why Me": Defining the "Milkman Moment" 73
- 5 Revising Narrative Truth 79
- Preliminary Conversations: "It's Whatever, You Know" 80
- The Anti-Story: "Lord Please Erase My Birthdate" 83
- Resilient Truths: "Where I Get My Pride and Grace" 88
- Restoring Love: Changing Our Ways of Caring 94
- 6 Colonel Sanders, Counterplot, and "The Connect" 97
- "Sky's Plan" and the Charter School World 98
- The Absence of Ambiguity: "You Get A's or You Fail" 104
- Love Equals Struggle 107
- Breaking Tradition: Love + Struggle = Energy 108
- "Educational Reflexes": The Relevance of Paulo Freire and Academic Citations 112.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: LaMay, Bronwyn Clare, author. Personal narrative, revised
- ISBN:
- 9780807758083
- 0807758086
- OCLC:
- 956775139
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