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Writing to Survive
How Teachers and Teens Negotiate the Effects of Abuse, Violence, and Disaster
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2011
Summary
This ethnographic research investigates how adolescents use writing. Deborah M. Alvarez uncovers the hidden abuses and violence that adolescents bore with each school day. In two different research sites, the author follows adolescents through their academic and personal lives to discover how they use writing only to uncover the impact the public and private violence had upon their ability to learn. The author details the writing classroom practices; assignments; and how adolescents adapt, reconstruct and appropriate the lessons of the classroom for their purpose and needs. For the adolescents in the book, writing was a way to address the stresses that plagued the adolescents each day, especially when they had no other way to communicate or tell about their lived experiences.
Alvarez outlines an alternative Expressivist plan for teaching writing to adolescents. This writing program builds upon the evidence from the case studies, brain theory and research on traumatic stresses to offer teachers and thereby their students a more effective way to teach writing with greater impact for those who need it most.
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Edition
1/2011
Copyright Year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-1-60709-783-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-60709-785-3
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
269
Product Type
Monograph
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Table of Contents No access
Introduction No access
Chapter 1: Writing to Survive No access
Chapter 2: Research Methodology for Prairie High School No access
Chapter 3: Danielle––"I'm Safe Now" No access
Chapter 4: Chase––"When I Am Happy, I Have No Problems Thinking" No access
Chapter 5: Diana––"Hell of a Life, Isn't It?" No access
Chapter 6: Research Methodology for New Orleans Public High Schools No access
Chapter 7: Lydia––"In Then, I New My Best Friend Was Dead" No access
Chapter 8: Tyrone––"Doing Me Is What I Do Best" No access
Chapter 9: Writing Across Trauma, Tragedy, and Adolescence No access
Appendix A: Syllabus for the Senior Project (Block Scheduling) No access Pages 233 - 236
Appendix B: Danielle's Writings No access Pages 237 - 238
Appendix C: Chase's Writings No access Pages 239 - 240
Appendix D: Diana's Writings No access Pages 241 - 244
