Personal Narrative, Revised

Writing Love and Agency in the High School Classroom

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Writing & Publishing, Composition & Creative Writing, Education & Teaching, Teaching, Teaching Methods
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Author: Bronwyn Clare LaMay ISBN: 9780807775158
Publisher: Teachers College Press Publication: December 15, 2009
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Bronwyn Clare LaMay
ISBN: 9780807775158
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Publication: December 15, 2009
Imprint:
Language: English

In this inspirational book, LaMay shows readers how to transform classrooms and schools into places where youth can explore the intersection between literacy and their lives. This book is the culmination of a literacy curriculum that the author and her high school students wrote dialogically, beginning with their attempt to define love. Through real-life classroom examples, they demonstrate how an innovative curriculum that intertwines personal and academic engagement can create space for students to explore their identities, connect to literary texts, and develop agency as writers and thinkers. In this important contribution to literacy educators, the author shows how personal narratives can help students rebuild their fractured relationships with school and envision writing and academic achievement as playing a role in their futures.

Book Features:

  • Evidence of how students’ social-emotional and academic growth may intertwine in the interest of school engagement.
  • A re-conceptualization of the complex layers of the personal narrative genre and its role in the pedagogy of academic writing.
  • A reinterpretation of the transformational role of revision in students’ academic and life texts.
  • Examples of writing and interview data that illustrate the diversity of student responses.

“Heart and mind blend in this remarkable story of a teacher and her students working with courageous determination to create an education that values young people and gives weight and meaning to their lives.”
Mike Rose, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and author of Why School?: Reclaiming Education for All of Us

“This wonderful book demonstrates how enabling students to tackle ideas that are meaningful to them can produce both rigor and integrity in the learning process.”
Linda Darling-Hammond, president, Learning Policy Institute

“Bronwyn LaMay takes Toni Morrison’s concept of response-ability to heart and develops a powerful sequenced theory of narrative revelation in order to empower students and teachers.”
Nigel Hatton, University of California

In this inspirational book, LaMay shows readers how to transform classrooms and schools into places where youth can explore the intersection between literacy and their lives. This book is the culmination of a literacy curriculum that the author and her high school students wrote dialogically, beginning with their attempt to define love. Through real-life classroom examples, they demonstrate how an innovative curriculum that intertwines personal and academic engagement can create space for students to explore their identities, connect to literary texts, and develop agency as writers and thinkers. In this important contribution to literacy educators, the author shows how personal narratives can help students rebuild their fractured relationships with school and envision writing and academic achievement as playing a role in their futures.

Book Features:

  • Evidence of how students’ social-emotional and academic growth may intertwine in the interest of school engagement.
  • A re-conceptualization of the complex layers of the personal narrative genre and its role in the pedagogy of academic writing.
  • A reinterpretation of the transformational role of revision in students’ academic and life texts.
  • Examples of writing and interview data that illustrate the diversity of student responses.

“Heart and mind blend in this remarkable story of a teacher and her students working with courageous determination to create an education that values young people and gives weight and meaning to their lives.”
Mike Rose, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and author of Why School?: Reclaiming Education for All of Us

“This wonderful book demonstrates how enabling students to tackle ideas that are meaningful to them can produce both rigor and integrity in the learning process.”
Linda Darling-Hammond, president, Learning Policy Institute

“Bronwyn LaMay takes Toni Morrison’s concept of response-ability to heart and develops a powerful sequenced theory of narrative revelation in order to empower students and teachers.”
Nigel Hatton, University of California

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