Appleman, Deborah.

Critical encounters in high school English : teaching literary theory to adolescents / Deborah Appleman. - 2nd ed. - New York : Urbana, Ill. : Teachers College Press ; National Council of Teachers of English, c2009. - xii, 221 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Language and literacy series . - Language and literacy series (New York, N.Y.) .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-206) and index.

What we teach and why : contemporary literary theory and adolescents -- Prisms of possibilities : introducing multiple perspectives -- The lens of reader response : the promise and peril of response-based pedagogy -- What's class got to do with it? : reading literature through the lens of privilege and social class -- The social construction of gender : a lens of one's own -- Columbus did what? : postcolonialism in the literature classroom -- Deconstruction : postmodern theory and the postmodern high school student -- Lenses and learning styles : acknowledging student plurality with theoretical plurality -- Critical encounters : reading the world.

9780807748923 (pbk : alk. paper) 0807748927 (pbk : alk. paper)

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English literature--Study and teaching (Secondary)
Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--Study and teaching (Secondary)
American literature--Study and teaching (Secondary)
Literature--Study and teaching (Secondary)
Criticism--English-speaking countries.

PR 33 / .A66 2009