Arts Integration and Young Adult Literature: Strategies to Enhance Academic Skills and Empower Student Voice combines two research-based concepts, arts integration and the use of young adult literature, to provide activities and instructional strategies to boost students' communication, reading, and thinking skills, while utilizing a variety of art integrated methods with a diverse range of young adult literature to enable high school literacy teachers to harmonize art and young adult literature into their curriculum
Rebecca Maldonado is a high school teacher, research educator, and a doctoral graduate from the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education at the University of Oklahoma. Her research focus is critical theory, teacher development, curriculum ideologies, global responsibility, arts integration, and young adult literature.
Acknowledgements Foreword Dr. Michael Angelotti Introduction: A Story for the Books Rebecca Maldonado Section 1 - Research & Rationale for Using Art Integration & Young Adult Literature Chapter 1 - The Power of the Arts in the English Language Arts Classroom Kay W. Cowan and S. Rebecca Leigh Chapter 2 - From Stacks to Desks: A History of Young Adult Literature and the Case for Inclusion Christian Gregory Section 2 - Arts Integration and Young Adult Literature in Prose Chapter 3 - Exploring Deadly Events Through Performance, Visual Storytelling, and Creative Writing Young Adult Literature Text: What Made Maddy Run by Kate Fagan Thomas C. Crochunis Chapter 4 - Impressions/Expressions: Using Arts Integration Strategies while Reading a Biography of an Artist Young Adult Literature Text: Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers by Deborah Heiligman Sharon Kane with Deborah Heiligman Chapter 5 - Promoting Emotional Transformation Through Mandala Making Young Adult Literature Text: Our Chemical Hearts by Krystal Sutherland Donna L. Miller Section 3 - Arts Integration and Young Adult Literature in Verse Chapter 6 - Digital Quilting: Weaving Words and Images Young Adult Literature Text: Sold by Patricia McCormick Pamela Hartman, Brandon Schuler, and Hannah Fulton Chapter 7 - The Student X: Centering Student Identity and Agency via Public Art and Young Adult Literature Young Adult Literature Text: The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo Stephen Goss and Jennifer S. Dail Chapter 8 - The Transpoemation Project: Poetry, Heterosexism, and Digital-age Storytelling Young Adult Literature Text: October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard by Leslea Newman Toby Emert Section IV - Arts Integration with Other Young Adult Literature Text Chapter 9 - Getting into Good Trouble: Exploring Visual Literacy with John Lewis's March Young Adult Literature Text: March, Book One by John Lewis Emily Wender and Pauline Skowron Schmidt Chapter 10 - A Bleak Picture?: Critical Pedagogy of Place and Finger Painting with Sadie Young Adult Literature Text: Sadie by Courtney Summers Chea Parton Chapter 11- Interrogating Boundaries Through Reader's Theater Young Adult Literature Text: Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir by Maggie Thrash Ann Marie Smith and Lisa A. Hazlett Appendix About the Editor About the Contributors
