Adolescents Rewrite their Worlds: Using Literature to Illustrate Writing Forms

ISBN-13: 9781475813227 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Publication date: 02/08/2015 Pages: 182 Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d) Adolescents Rewrite their Worlds: Using Literature to Illustrate Writing Forms offers alternative ways teachers can engage young adolescents with the writing process using literature. The contributors discuss the values of writing in twenty-first-century classrooms and global societies, remarking that writing is first a personal exploration that is informed by cultural practices. Therefore culture is quite central in how we approach, explore, and express through any medium. The chapters consider ways to motivate students to become critically-conscious and active writers who are aware of their surrounding world, and the competing multiple discourses in which they are positioned. This requires intimate knowledge of audience, purpose, and genre and/or writing forms. We provide practical advice for teachers who wish to guide th