Arts Integration and Young Adult Literature

Rebecca Maldonado is a high school teacher, research educator, and a doctoral graduate from the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education at the University of Oklahoma. Her research focus is critical theory, teacher development, curriculum ideologies, global responsibility, arts integration, and young adult literature.

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Dr. Michael Angelotti

Introduction: A Story for the Books

Rebecca Maldonado

Section 1 - Research & Rationale for Using Art Integration & Young Adult Literature

Chapter 1 - The Power of the Arts in the English Language Arts Classroom

Kay W. Cowan and S. Rebecca Leigh

Chapter 2 - From Stacks to Desks: A History of Young Adult Literature and the Case for Inclusion

Christian Gregory

Section 2 - Arts Integration and Young Adult Literature in Prose

Chapter 3 - Exploring Deadly Events Through Performance, Visual Storytelling, and Creative Writing

Young Adult Literature Text: What Made Maddy Run by Kate Fagan

Thomas C. Crochunis

Chapter 4 - Impressions/Expressions: Using Arts Integration Strategies while Reading a Biography of an Artist

Young Adult Literature Text: Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers by Deborah Heiligman

Sharon Kane with Deborah Heiligman

Chapter 5 - Promoting Emotional Transformation Through Mandala Making

Young Adult Literature Text: Our Chemical Hearts by Krystal Sutherland

Donna L. Miller

Section 3 - Arts Integration and Young Adult Literature in Verse

Chapter 6 - Digital Quilting: Weaving Words and Images

Young Adult Literature Text: Sold by Patricia McCormick

Pamela Hartman, Brandon Schuler, and Hannah Fulton

Chapter 7 - The Student X: Centering Student Identity and Agency via Public Art and Young Adult Literature

Young Adult Literature Text: The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Stephen Goss and Jennifer S. Dail

Chapter 8 - The Transpoemation Project: Poetry, Heterosexism, and Digital-age Storytelling

Young Adult Literature Text: October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard by Leslea Newman

Toby Emert

Section IV - Arts Integration with Other Young Adult Literature Text

Chapter 9 - Getting into Good Trouble: Exploring Visual Literacy with John Lewis’s March

Young Adult Literature Text: March, Book One by John Lewis

Emily Wender and Pauline Skowron Schmidt

Chapter 10 - A Bleak Picture?: Critical Pedagogy of Place and Finger Painting with Sadie

Young Adult Literature Text: Sadie by Courtney Summers

Chea Parton

Chapter 11- Interrogating Boundaries Through Reader’s Theater

Young Adult Literature Text: Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir by Maggie Thrash

Ann Marie Smith and Lisa A. Hazlett

Appendix

About the Editor

About the Contributors