Inquiry Units for English Language Arts

Dawn Forde is a teacher at Adlai E. Stevenson High School and has been learning from her students for almost twenty years. She has presented at local, state, and national conferences, primarily focusing on inquiry and its effects on student engagement. Andrew Bouque teaches English at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois. In his twenty-one years in public high schools, he has worked to build classroom communities for students to find, develop, and refine their spoken voices and craft arguments that matter. Elizabeth A. Kahn taught English language arts for 36 years and served as English department chair; she now teaches in the English teacher education program at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois. She has co-authored several books, including Discussion Pathways to Literacy Learning (NCTE 2018), The Dynamics of Writing Instruction (Heinemann 2010), and Writing About Literature (NCTE 1984 and 2009, updated edition). Thomas M. McCann is a professor of English at Northern Illinois University, where he contributes to the teacher licensure program. His books include Transforming Talk into Text and Literacy and History in Action (Teachers College Press) and the co-authored Talking in Class (NCTE, 2006), The Dynamics of Writing Instruction (Heinemann, 2010), and Teaching Matters Most (Corwin Press, 2012). Carolyn Calhoun Walter taught English students for thirty years at both public and private high schools and now supervises student teachers for Northern Illinois University. Ms. Walter is a regular presenter at national conferences and has co-authored Designing and Sequencing Pre-Writing Activities and Writing about Literature, and Discussion Pathways to Literacy Learning.

Table of Contents
Foreword
Peter Smagorinsky, The University of Georgia
Chapter 1: An Invitation to Inquiry for English Language Arts
Thomas M. McCann
Chapter 2: An Inquiry into What It Means to Be Human
Jane Feeney Kade
Chapter 3: An Inquiry into Atoning for Mistakes and Achieving Redemption
Gabrielle Caputo and Shannon McMullen
Chapter 4: An Inquiry into Ethics and Rebellion
Dawn Forde and Thomas M. McCann
Chapter 5: An Inquiry into Confronting Stereotypes and Prejudice
Chanelle M. Savich and Kristen M. Linneburger
Chapter 6: An Inquiry into Equity and Democracy
Tamara Joffe-Notier
Chapter 7: An Inquiry into Satire and Social Reform
Julianna Cucci, Zanfina Rrahmani Muja, and Laurie McGowan
Chapter 8: Designing Units for Inquiry: Concluding Thoughts
Elizabeth A. Kahn
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Acknowledgements