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Young Adult Literature and Spirituality
How to Unlock Deeper Understanding with Class Discussion
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2022
Summary
This book offers revolutionary approaches to in-class discussions about young adult literature. It shows teachers how to think more widely than the themes of a book to consider how they might operate as prayers of lament, yearning, anger, confession, thankfulness, reconciliation, joy, obedience, pilgrimage, contemplation, and equanimity. It also offers a variety of ways for classroom discussion to consider a representative sentence or two from a young adult novel, and from that allow students to connect to linked passages in the rest of the novel. These approaches for classroom discussion are drawn from a variety of contemplative traditions, including Jewish and Christian faith traditions and include florilegium, lectio divina, PaRDeS, Ignatian Imagination, havruta, and marginalia. Drawing from a range of in-class experiences, the authors explain each approach in the context of twelve popular and critically interesting young adult novels including The Hate U Give, Long Way Down, Speak, The Poet X, The Fault in our Stars, Brown Girl Dreaming, and others. This book will transform discussions that are disconnected from the book, lacking in relevance, or missing the energy that drives good conversation into meaningful and energetic class discussions that students and teachers alike will value.
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Copyright year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-4758-6209-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-4758-6211-9
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
160
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Foreword No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Prayers of Lament in Internment No access Pages 1 - 12
Yearning in The Hate U Give No access Pages 13 - 22
Speak and Long Way Down No access Pages 23 - 34
Confession in Goodbye Days No access Pages 35 - 50
Seeing Equanimity in brown girl dreaming No access Pages 51 - 64
Thankfulness in The War That Saved My Life No access Pages 65 - 80
Louisiana’s Way Home and The Poet X as Prayers of Reconciliation No access Pages 81 - 92
Using Havruta to Consider Orbiting Jupiter and The Beast Player as Prayers of Obedience No access Pages 93 - 108
Prayers of Contemplation in Where the Mountain Meets the Moon No access Pages 109 - 118
Finding Joy in The Fault in Our Stars through Florilegium No access Pages 119 - 128
