Check out these new additions to the OISE Library Curriculum Resources and Children’s Literature collections!
Creative Shakespeare: The Globe Education Guide (CR 822.23 B218 C)
Learn how to teach Shakespeare inventively with this unique guide! At Shakespeare’s Globe theatre, Shakespeare is brought to life by educational practitioners. Fiona Banks adapts this unique approach for the classroom. She offers examples and practical ideas for activities that focus on speaking, moving, and preforming Shakespeare, rather than simply reading. Banks draws from her own experience as a teacher, and offers a range of suggestions on how teachers can adapt their own lessons. This book is a perfect guide for English and drama teachers looking for a creative new way to bring the experience of Shakespeare to life.
Teaching Graphic Novels in the Classroom (CR 371.33 N935T)
High school teacher, Ryan J. Novak, brings graphic novels to the classroom in this fun-filled guide. He discusses the benefits of studying graphic literature and describes the history of the genre, covering everything from comic books, manga, and graphic novels. Novak focuses on many different genres, supplying an analysis of the genre, lesson ideas, discussion questions, chapter summaries and more. Finally, Novak outlines how to encourage students to create their own graphic novels, supplying writing and artistic guidance to help their work come to fruition.
Teaching Young Adult Literature (CR 809.892 B367T)
In this modern guide, teachers are introduced to how to use young adult literature in contemporary contexts. The guide looks at current research on adolescent life and literacy, as well as the growing genres of young adult literature, and offers teaching approaches and strategies for grades 7 to 12. The guide will help prepare teachers to interact with diverse student populations and creating effective learning environments that incorporate new forms of young adult literature.
If those guides have you excited to teach literature in the classroom, or you’re simply looking for some summer reading, check out these new young adult titles in our Children’s Literature collection:
Cress (JUV FIC M612C)
In the newest addition to Marissa Meyer’s science fiction Lunar Chronicles, cyborg Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives working to stop an evil Queen Levana from invading Earth. Their only chance to save the earth is with the help of Cress. Unfortunately, like a futuristic Rapunzel, Cress is currently locked in a satellite. Read how these unlikely companions attempt to save Cress and the earth! Or, if you’ve yet to read the first two novels in this popular series, check out Cinder and Scarlet from the library first.
The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B (JUV FIC T717U)
If cyborgs aren’t your thing, take a look at this young adult novel by Canadian and University of Toronto alum, Teresa Toten. Toten discusses difficult and incredibly important issues through this novel about a boy meeting a girl in a support group for kids with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Adam dedicates himself to protecting Robyn, but this proves challenging at fourteen, especially when dealing with the complications of step-parents, siblings and OCD.
