Critical encounters in high school English : teaching literary theory to adolescents - Appleman, Deborah (New York : Teachers College Press ; Urbana, Ill. : National Council of Teachers of English, 2009)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-206) and index.
Keywords: 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