building bridges between young adult literature and the classics /
Sarah K. Herz with Donald R. Gallo.
Westport, Conn. :
Greenwood Press,
1996.
xvi, 127 p. ;
24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [109]-117) and index.
Chapter 1 Letting Go: How I Stopped Forcing Books down Students' Throats and Found Out What They Really Needed 1 -- Chapter 2 What Is Young Adult Literature Anyway? Can It Be Any Good If Students Like It? 7 -- Chapter 3 Directing versus Exploring: How to Get to Where You're Going without a Literary Map 13 -- Chapter 4 Building Bridges: Getting Students from Wherever They Are to Where the Curriculum Says They Should Be 25 -- Chapter 5 Creating Library Lions 75 -- Chapter 6 Other Backyards: Using Young Adult Books for Interdisciplinary Studies 83 -- Chapter 7 What's Next: Where Can I Find More Information? 93.
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Demonstrates how YA literature can be used in the English classroom and across the curriculum.
From Hinton to Hamlet.
Literature-- Study and teaching (Secondary)
Young adult literature-- Study and teaching (Secondary)