Young Adult Literature: The Heart of the Middle School Curriculum

by Lois T Stover

Overview

Young adult literature provides a mirror in which adolescents can observe themselves and their world with an ease and security that other kinds of texts fail to provide. It is a logical starting point for planning middle school learning experiences across the curriculum, but one that, up until now, has never fully been explored.

Stover's book is designed to help middle school teachers develop concept-based, transdisciplinary units that reflect what we know about the value of students working together to construct knowledge and the value of putting young adult literature at the center of such a planning process. The author presents a process for planning transdisciplinary units, a rationale for using young adult literature, and an overview of teaching strategies that best reflect the synthesis of this evolving knowledge base.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780867093766
Publisher:	Heinemann
Publication date:	11/18/1996
Series:	Young Adult Literature Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	188
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	11 - 13 Years

About the Author

Lois Thomas Stover is the chair of the educational studies department at St. Mary's College of Maryland, where she supervises student teachers and teaches courses in pedagogy, educational psychology, literacy, and foundations of education. A former middle school teacher of English and drama, she edited the English Journal's Young Adult Literature column for two years.

Table of Contents

Young Adult Literature, Transdisciplinary Planning, and the Middle School
There's No Place like Home
Conflict and Confrontation
Surviving, Living, and Disturbing the Universe
The Delivery and Assessment of Transdisciplinary Instruction
Appendixes:
A. Survey Results of Middle School Students' Relative Levels of Interest in Concepts with Potential for Transdisciplinary Planning
B. Texts for Young Adults Annotated by Concept