Young Adult and Canonical Literature: Pairing and Teaching

by Paula Greathouse (Editor), Victor Malo-Juvera Professor and Undergradua (Editor)

Overview

This offers educators approaches for teaching young adult literature in tandem with the most commonly taught canonical texts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781475857160
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	03/10/2021
Pages:	182
Product dimensions:	6.37(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.76(d)

About the Author

Paula Greathouse is associate professor of secondary English Education at Tennessee Tech where she teaches English methods, literacy, and young adult literature courses. She was a secondary English and Reading teacher for sixteen years.

Victor Malo-Juvera is a former middle school teacher and current associate professor of English Education at the University of North Carolina Wilmington where he teaches courses in young adult literature and multicultural young adult literature.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

Victor Malo-Juvera and Paula Greathouse

CHAPTER 1

A Poet, a Girl, and Her Golem: The Journey from Innocence to Experience

Dawan Coombs and Rachel Knecht

CHAPTER 2

Remixing Pride and Prejudice for Gentrification Study and Writing Dialogue

Kristine Mensonides Gritter

CHAPTER 3

Monsters, Cyborgs, and Medical Ethics: Cinder and Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

Melanie Hundley and Sarah K. Burriss

CHAPTER 4

Young Adult Literature as Companion to Sex, Gender, and Consent in the Canon: Pairing Gabi,

a Girl in Pieces and The Scarlet Letter

Ruben Zecena and Ashley S. Boyd

CHAPTER 5

Beginnings, Transformations, and Connections: Teaching Gansworth’s Apple alongside Kafka’s

Metamorphosis

Ricki Ginsberg and Kit Magee

CHAPTER 6

Examining Prejudice and Intersectionality in Of Mice and Men and We Were Here

Ellen Foley

CHAPTER 7

Disrupting the Canon with Dystopia: Neal Shusterman’s Scythe and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit

451

Sarah Flemming and Keith Newvine

CHAPTER 8

Saints, Angels, Butterflies, and Owls: Magical Realism Beckons

Sharon Kane

CHAPTER 9

Trauma in the Beauty Ideal in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and An Na’s The Fold

Sarah Donovan

ABOUT THE EDITORS

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX OF CANONICAL AND YA TEXTS

SUBJECT INDEX

Editorial Reviews

This book is an essential resource for English teachers who want to use BOTH young adult literature and canonical texts in their classrooms without sacrificing either. The world has changed dramatically since my last edition of Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the Classics was published in 1993 and Greathouse and Malo-Juvera provide a timely update that reflects current issues and features recently published young adult titles. Young Adult and Canonical Literature: Pairing and Teaching provides practical methods for teaching, in chapters written by the new vanguard of educators in the field of young adult literature. This is a must have book.

Joan F. Kaywell

Greathouse and Malo-Juvera provide ample evidence of the value of pairing YA literature with classic texts. From Pride and Prejudice to The Bluest Eye the authors of every chapter demonstrate how quality YA makes complex ideas and theories encased in the classics relevant to the modern audiences.

Steven T. Bickmore

Secondary English teachers often struggle to infuse their classrooms with literature from the canon along with the proliferation of young adult texts that are often more relevant to their students. Not since Joan Kaywell's edited volume Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the Classics (1993), and her updates a decade later, has there been a definitive work combining these texts as complements to each other. This two-volume work offers unique options for teachers, with chapters organized chronologically by the publication date of the canonical text, providing a wide array of pairings with unique approaches to pedagogy within the strictures of the National Council of Teachers of English. Each chapter is organized with an introductory section; a summary of texts (without an emphasis on the canon); and instructional activities (with options) for before, during, and after the unit. Chapters also include extension activities and substantive lists of relevant references. This book will be valuable to veteran teachers who have at least some graduate work relating to further canon study and a broad understanding of relevant young adult texts. Highly recommended.

Choice Reviews

Greathouse and Malo-Juvera’s edited volumes of Young Adult and Canonical Literature: Pairing and Teaching, artfully assembles an array of essays presenting a dynamic collection of texts, old and new, in dialogue, which will prove stimulating for both teachers and students. It will be a wonderful resource for decades to come. The book takes a commonsensical approach and avoids being unnecessarily trendy or replete with jargon, which adds up to a refreshing look at canonical texts with an appreciation for enduring themes in more contemporary literature.

Josephine A. McQuail

Secondary English teachers often struggle to infuse their classrooms with literature from the canon along with the proliferation of young adult texts that are often more relevant to their students. Not since Joan Kaywell's edited volume Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the Classics (1993), and her updates a decade later, has there been a definitive work combining these texts as complements to each other. This two-volume work offers unique options for teachers, with chapters organized chronologically by the publication date of the canonical text, providing a wide array of pairings with unique approaches to pedagogy within the strictures of the National Council of Teachers of English. Each chapter is organized with an introductory section; a summary of texts (without an emphasis on the canon); and instructional activities (with options) for before, during, and after the unit. Chapters also include extension activities and substantive lists of relevant references. This book will be valuable to veteran teachers who have at least some graduate work relating to further canon study and a broad understanding of relevant young adult texts. Highly recommended.

Choice