Love Hurts, Lit Helps
How English Class Can Teach Teens to Improve Their Relationships, Friendships, and Communities
Seiten
2020
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4758-4829-8 (ISBN)
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4758-4829-8 (ISBN)
Through discussions of literature, this book outlines how English class can empower teens weathering social turbulence. Novels brim with lessons about love, heartbreak, sexuality, and belonging. Learning to tell stories, reflect, and argue gives students tools for self-expression and empathy in a world that often feels bereft of compassion.
Love hurts. Breaking up is hard to do. For all the joy that relationships and friendships can bring, showing romantic interest, establishing boundaries, and expressing identities as partners and friends isn’t easy for teens. They navigate an often ugly social universe. Even commonplace struggles can derail academic focus and harm emotional health.
English teachers hope to give students communication skills, a love of literature, a passport to an intellectually vibrant life rich in opportunity. Through discussions of canonical works of literature, assignment ideas, anecdotes from teaching, and student perspectives, this book outlines how an academically rigorous English class can also heal, empower, and provide wisdom for teens weathering storms in their social lives.
English class is health class. Widely taught novels brim with rich lessons about courtship, love, heartbreak, sexuality, bonds, and belonging. Learning to write stories, reflections, and arguments, speak confidently, and listen critically gives students powerful tools for self-expression, advocacy, and empathy in their relationships and friendships.
The stakes are high and the rewards far-reaching. Students with healthier social lives do better academically, but they also end up becoming more responsible, caring grown-ups capable of improving an adult society that too often feels unsafe and tragically bereft of compassion.
Love hurts. Breaking up is hard to do. For all the joy that relationships and friendships can bring, showing romantic interest, establishing boundaries, and expressing identities as partners and friends isn’t easy for teens. They navigate an often ugly social universe. Even commonplace struggles can derail academic focus and harm emotional health.
English teachers hope to give students communication skills, a love of literature, a passport to an intellectually vibrant life rich in opportunity. Through discussions of canonical works of literature, assignment ideas, anecdotes from teaching, and student perspectives, this book outlines how an academically rigorous English class can also heal, empower, and provide wisdom for teens weathering storms in their social lives.
English class is health class. Widely taught novels brim with rich lessons about courtship, love, heartbreak, sexuality, bonds, and belonging. Learning to write stories, reflections, and arguments, speak confidently, and listen critically gives students powerful tools for self-expression, advocacy, and empathy in their relationships and friendships.
The stakes are high and the rewards far-reaching. Students with healthier social lives do better academically, but they also end up becoming more responsible, caring grown-ups capable of improving an adult society that too often feels unsafe and tragically bereft of compassion.
Originally from Kentucky, Andrew Simmons is a public high school English teacher and writer in Northern California. He has written for The Atlantic, Edutopia, Vox, The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and other publications.
Table of Contents
Foreword: by Thomas Newkirk
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Texts
Chapter 1. Of Mice and Men
Chapter 2.Othello
Chapter 3.The Odyssey
Chapter 4.Hamlet
Chapter 5.Beloved
Chapter 6. (More) Contemporary Selections: Jennifer Egan, Junot Diaz, and Sandra Cisneros
Part II: Skills
Chapter 7. Storytelling, Reflection, and Argument
Chapter 8. Speaking and Listening
Conclusion
Appendix: Major Assessments and Relevant Common Core Standards
Acknowledgements
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 16 b/w illustrations; 1 table |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 219 mm |
| Gewicht | 254 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung |
| Schulbuch / Wörterbuch | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4758-4829-3 / 1475848293 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4758-4829-8 / 9781475848298 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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