Genocide literature in middle and secondary classrooms : rhetoric, witnessing, and social action in a time of standards and accountability / by Sarah J. Donovan.

• The education of a teacher: the first year -- Reading and meeting a mandate to study genocide -- The rhetoric of the word: a case study of Bosnia Herzegovina -- Reading testimony: witnessing and the witness -- The rhetoric and aesthetic of fiction in genocide literature -- The ethics of a child narrator -- Emotional appeals, trauma, and aesthetic pleasure -- Rational appeals and didacticism -- The writing workshop -- A teacher's testimony: Michael Krzysztofiak -- Whole-class reading, research, and activism -- A teacher's testimony: Elaine Vogel -- The reading workshop -- A teacher's testimony: Sumer Samano -- Assessment: no more numbers and letters -- A teacher's testimony: Amy Estanislao -- Conclusion: the education of a teacher continues.

Ämnesord

Genocide in literature.  (LCSH)

Genocide  -- Study and teaching (Middle school) -- Illinois. (LCSH)

Educational law and legislation  -- Illinois. (LCSH)

Education and state  -- Illinois. (LCSH)

Folkmord i litteraturen  (sbiao)

Etik och moral i litteraturen  (sbiao)

Litteraturpedagogik i skolan  (sbiao)

Klassifikation

HV6322.7 (LCC)

364.15/10712773 (DDC)

Oer (kssb/8 (machine generated))