Heather E. Bruce, Anna E. Baldwin, Christabel Umphrey

Broschiertes Buch

Sherman Alexie in the Classroom

"This is not a silent movie. Our voices will save our lives."

Beschreibung

Provides high school teachers with teaching strategies, classroom activities, and student samples for teaching the works of Sherman Alexie. Sherman Alexie is the premiere Native American writer of the twenty-first century. His work-often charismatic, insistent, and opinionated-has earned accolades and awards, including the 2007 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. This volume in NCTE's High School Literature Series examines ways to teach the works of Alexie, including his film Smoke Signals; the short story collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven; several of Alexie's poems; the novels Reservation Blues and Flight; and the National Book Award winner The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Coauthors Heather E. Bruce, Anna E. Baldwin, and Christabel Umphrey contextualize Alexie's work in the larger body of works written in English by Native American authors, but they also let Alexie's own voice shine through. As with all volumes in the series, student samples are included, along with a chapter that excerpts selections from pertinent literary criticism to guide teachers in their study of Alexie's work. A companion website provides additional instructional materials, including an introduction to Native American literatures.

Autor

Heather E. Bruce is professor of English education at the University of Montana-Missoula and director of the Montana Writing Project. She previously taught English language arts for thirteen years in public schools at both the secondary and elementary levels. She is involved with pedagogical and curricular work that aims to address issues of access, relevance, and diversity for students living in poverty and with implementing Montana's legislative mandate: Indian Education for All. Her book Literacies, Lies and Silences: Girls Writing Lives in the Classroom (2003), an ethnographic analysis of women's studies student writers at Aspen Grove High School, examines the ways in which adolescents compose lives in the writing classroom. Other work has appeared in the NCTE volumes Practice in Context (2002) and A Curriculum of Peace (2004). Her articles have appeared in English Journal, JAC, and the Quarterly Journal of the National Writing Project. She is at work on As If Our Lives Depended on Rhetoric: Social Justice Pedagogy in the Post-Civil Rights Era.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: National Council of Teachers of English
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 140mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 205g
• ISBN-13: 9780814144572
• ISBN-10: 0814144578
• Artikelnr.: 66150113