Product Description: Like previous editions, the third edition of Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents’ Lives invites middle- and high-school educators to move toward a broad, generative view of adolescent literacies. Recognizing that digital media, social networking phenomena are now central in adolescents’ lives, what is different is the focus in this edition on bridging students’ everyday literacies and subject matter learning...read more

Product Description: Mainstream rap's seductive blend of sexuality, violence, and bravado hardly seems the stuff of school curricula. And chances are good that the progressive and revolutionary "underground" hip-hop of artists such as The Roots or Mos Def is not on the playlists of most high-school students...read more

Product Description: This collection of articles from various professional journals provides many helpful examples of how administrators, staff developers, and teachers can renew and revitalize their efforts for teaching middle school and high school students...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: For John Gaughan, preparing his students for life is just as important as preparing them for college. He doesn't sacrifice one for the other; he just uses different content. Instead of ignoring the controversial issues that emerge from discussions of gender, race, and sexuality, he addresses these issues head on in the literature and writing he assigns...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Cultural Reflections takes the best from a writing process approach and adds a social dimension, demonstrating how to make cultural criticism the driving force in the high school English curriculum. Students carry different baggage than we did when we were in school- what engaged students thirty years ago does not engage them today...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)