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What was it like? : teaching history and culture through young adult literature
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Title
What was it like? : teaching history and culture through young adult literature / Linda J. Rice ; foreword by Alleen Pace Nilsen.
ISBN
0807747122 (cloth)
9780807747124 (cloth)
0807747114 (pbk.)
9780807747117 (pbk.)
Published
New York : Teachers College Press, Columbia University, c2006.
Physical Description
xiv, 202 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 10, 2007
Series
Language and literacy series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Active learning in theory and practice
2. Overcoming economic hardship and physical disability during the Great depression (1929-1939)
3. Hunger of body, hunger of heart : Mexican American young adult authors portray migrant farm experiences (1940s-1960s)
4. Bearing witness to the horror of the Holocaust (1939-1945) : children who suffered and survived
5. Deterioration of family and culture : the impact of Japanese internment (1941-1945)
6. Korean perserverance during the Japanese occupation (1910-1945)
7. Literature of the civil rights movement (1950s-1960s) : snapshots, speeches, and travels that challenged young adults and changed them forever
8. The plight of the American soldier and children left behind in Vietnam (1959-1975)
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