This text offers secondary ELA educators guided instructional approaches for including queer-themed young adult (YA) literature in the English language arts classroom. Each chapter spotlights the reading of one queer-themed YA novel, and offers pre-, during-, and after reading activities that guide students to a deeper understanding of the content while increasing their literacy practices. While each chapter focuses on a specific queer-themed YA novel, readers will discover the many opportunities for cross-disciplinary study. Thw emphasis on English language arts content as a focus for teaching LGBTQ young adult literature marks a shift from the first edition.
Paula Greathouse is an associate professor of secondary English Education at Tennessee Tech University. She was a secondary English and Reading teacher for sixteen years.She has received several teaching awards including the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Teacher of Excellence Award.
Henry Cody Miller is an assistant professor of English education at SUNY Brockport. Prior to that role, he taught high school English in Florida for seven years. He served as the chair of the LGBTQ Advisory Board for the National Council of Teachers of English from 2018-2021. His scholarship has appeared in publications likeThe English Journal,ALAN Review,English Leadership Quarterly, among others.
INTRODUCTION
Henry Cody Miller and Paula Greathouse
CHAPTER 1
The History of Queer Young Adult Literature
Michael Cart and Joan F. Kaywell
CHAPTER 2
Rhetorical Analysis of Black Queer Narratives throughAll Boys Arent Blue
LaMar Timmons-Long
CHAPTER 3
Characterization and Symbolism in Superhero-Themed Graphic Novels withYou Brought Me
the Ocean
René M. Rodríguez-Astacio
CHAPTER 4
Color Palettes and Peculiar Panels: Studying Narrative Structure in Tillie WaldensOn A
Sunbeam
Nicole Amato and Jenna Spiering
CHAPTER 5
About Being Free: Exploring Identity, Queerness, and Radical Possibility through Verse in
The Black Flamingo
shea wesley martin
CHAPTER 6
to go somewhere I knew someone would see me: Narrative Structure, Flashbacks, and Social
Worlds in Candice IlohsEvery Body Looking
Ryan Burns
CHAPTER 7
ExploringThe Prom as Texts and Symbol
Terri Suico
CHAPTER 8
Focusing on Marginalized Identities through Imagery: A Fairy Tale Retelling and Remix with
Dark and Deepest Red
Summer Melody Pennell
CHAPTER 9
Queering Literary Close Reading withThe Fascinators
Scott Storm
CHAPTER 10
Exploring Blackness, Queerness and Liberation through The Stars and the Blackness Between
Them
Danelle Adeniji, Brittany Frieson, Tatyana Jimenez-Macias, Kristin Rasbury, Kyle Wright and Amanda Vickery
CHAPTER 11
Felix Ever After: A Mystery in Progress
Lucy A. Garcia and Megan Lynn Isaac
CHAPTER 12
Exploring Characterization Narratives withChulito: A Novel
Gabriel T. Acevedo Velázquez
CHAPTER 13
Multimodal Exploration of Identity inThe Music of What Happens
Anthony Celaya& Joseph D. Sweet
CHAPTER 14
Multimodal Analysis of Characters and Settings inLittle& Lionby Brandy Colbert
E. Sybil Durand
ABOUT THE EDITORS
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
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