Death and War in A Separate Peace
Document Type
Book Section
Publication Date
11-1-2018
Publication Title
Moving Beyond Personal Loss to Societal Grieving: Discussing Death's Social Impact through Literature in the Secondary ELA Classroom
Publisher
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers
Publisher Location
Lanham, MD
First page number:
212
Abstract
Moving Beyond Personal Loss to Societal Grieving considers how secondary English language arts teachers and teacher educators can sensitively and thoughtfully teach pieces of literature in their classrooms in which large-scale deaths are a significant, if not central, aspect of the texts. As mass shootings and violence against black and brown bodies increase, and issues such as AIDS, war, and genocide remain important to discuss as part of a shared, critical, and social consciousness, this book provides resources for educators to directly tackle and discuss these topics through the texts they read in their ELA classrooms. Whether it is canonical or contemporary literature, middle grades or young adult literature, fiction, nonfiction, or graphic novels, literature provides a vehicle to have these difficult but needed conversations about not only the personal but social effects of death and grief in our society.
Disciplines
Children's and Young Adult Literature | Educational Psychology | Junior High, Intermediate, Middle School Education and Teaching | Psychiatry and Psychology
Language
English
Repository Citation
Falter, M. M.,
Bickmore, S. T.
(2018).
Death and War in A Separate Peace.
Moving Beyond Personal Loss to Societal Grieving: Discussing Death's Social Impact through Literature in the Secondary ELA Classroom
212.
Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.
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