Exploring History through Young Adult Literature

High School, V2

Paula Greathouse, Melanie Hundley, Andrew L. Hostetler

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2024
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781475873511
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Teaching Methods

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.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• 1 Teaching about the Progressive Era through the Story of Clara Lemlich: Audacity
• 2 Black Birds in the Sky: Teaching the Tulsa Race Massacre through Peritextual Analysis
• 3 Refugees, Displacement, and the Object-Idea Connection: Teaching World War II and the Holocaust through Refugee
• 4 The Nightingale: Discovering Who We Are and Who We Want to Be
• 5 We Are Not Free: Contextualizing, Modeling, and Extending
• 6 Exploring Asian American History through Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
• 7 Addressing the Intersections of Racial and Sexual Identities in Last Night at the Telegraph Club
• 8 Coming Out in the Classroom: Using Pitman’s The Stonewall Riots to Forefront LGBTQ+ and Civil Rights in U.S. History
• 9 The War Abroad and the War at Home: Examining the Vietnam War Using Crowe’s Death Coming Up the Hill
• 10 Breaking Silences: A Historical Inquiry Design Approach to Reading The Fountains of Silence
• 11 An Inquiry into the History of Reproductive Rights: Jane Against the World: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights
• 12 Malcolm X and the Complexities of the Civil Rights Era
• 13 Perspective Taking and Persepolis: Exploring the Global Sociopolitical Climate during the Islamic Revolution
• About the Editors and Contributors