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NCTE High School Literature Series
Literature for the High School Classroom Rachel Endo
—Tricia Ebarvia, cofounder of #DisruptTexts, Berwyn, PA Endo offers new ways to talk and teach about the incarceration of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II through the selected works of critically acclaimed Japanese American authors Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Lawson Fusao Inada, and Hisaye Yamamoto.
161 pp. | 2018 | Grades 9–12 | ISBN 9780814122983 ebook: ISBN 9780814123003
“Living by the Word”
The Great Gatsby in the Classroom
Searching for the American Dream David Dowling Veteran high school English teacher David Dowling demonstrates how teachers can help students connect The Great Gatsby to the value systems of the twenty-first century, offering active reading and thinking strategies designed to enhance higher-level thinking and personal responses to fiction.
137 pp. | 2006 | Grades 9–12 | ISBN 9780814150986
To Kill a Mockingbird in the Classroom
Walking in Someone Else’s Shoes Louel C. Gibbons This book examines ways of engaging students as they study Harper Lee’s novel. Included are collaborative learning, discussion, writing, and inquiry-based projects as well as activities related to the film version of To Kill a Mockingbird. “Do not forget to reach”
121 pp. | 2009 | Grades 9–12 | ISBN 9780814125519
Zora Neale Hurston in the Classroom
“With a harp and a sword in my hands” Renée H. Shea and Deborah L. Wilchek The book offers a practical approach using a range of student-centered activities for teaching Hurston’s nonfiction, short stories, and the print and film versions of Their Eyes Were Watching God.
113 pp. | 2009 | Grades 9–12 | ISBN 9780814159750
Langston Hughes in the Classroom
“Do Nothin’ till You Hear from Me” Carmaletta M. Williams Williams provides high school teachers with background on Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance as well as help in teaching Hughes’s poetry, short stories, novels, and autobiography.
OTHER TITLES IN THIS SERIES INCLUDE:
Alice Walker in the Classroom
Carol Jago
73 pp. | 2000 | Grades 9–12 ISBN 9780814101148
Sherman Alexie in the Classroom
“This is not a silent movie. Our voices will save our lives.” Heather E. Bruce, Anna E. Baldwin, and Christabel Umphrey
146 pp. | 2008 | Grades 9–12 ISBN 9780814144572
Raymond Carver in the Classroom
“A Small, Good Thing” Susanne Rubenstein
119 pp. | 2005 | Grades 9–12 ISBN 9780814138311
Amy Tan in the Classroom
“The art of invisible strength” Renée H. Shea and Deborah L. Wilchek
128 pp. | 2005 | Grades 9–12 ISBN 9780814101483
Judith Ortiz Cofer in the Classroom
“A Woman in Front of the Sun” Carol Jago
82 pp. | 2006 | Grades 9–12 ISBN 9780814125359
Sandra Cisneros in the Classroom
124 pp. | 2006 | Grades 9–12 | ISBN 9780814125618
Carol Jago
95 pp. | 2002 | Grades 9–12 ISBN 9780814142318
Nikki Giovanni in the Classroom
“The same ol’ danger but a brand new pleasure” Carol Jago
78 pp. | 1999 | Grades 9–12 ISBN 9780814152126
Tim O’Brien in the Classroom
“This too is true: Stories can save us” Barry Gilmore and Alexander Kaplan
