Exploring Identity Development and Self: Teaching Universal Themes Through Young Adult Novels

by Mike P Cook and Leilya a Pitre

This book offers readers opportunities to explore the most common universal themes taught in secondary English Language Arts classrooms using contemporary young adult literature. Authors discuss adolescence and adolescent readers, young adult literature and its possibilities in the classroom, and ways to teach thematic analysis. The book provides context, traditional approaches to teaching and examples of thematic explorations of each of the chosen...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1475859813
• ISBN13: 9781475859812
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"