The Author-Driven Classroom

How Secondary ELA Teachers Can Teach Literature Through Writers' Lives and Choices
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-31201-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Are you looking for a new way to teach literature in your ELA classroom that includes the author’s lives and choices, as opposed to ignoring them?

The Author-Driven Classroom presents a comprehensive framework for author-centered literary instruction in secondary English language arts. Rather than treating authors as background information or reducing literary study to biography, the book argues that authors function as human, historical, and creative presences whose lives, identities, and craft choices can deepen students’ literary reasoning. Drawing on classroom experience, qualitative research, sociocultural theory, reader-response scholarship, and disciplinary literacy, the book introduces the Author Research Cycle (ARC), a flexible framework for transforming author knowledge into sustained literary inquiry. Through practical classroom examples, reflection prompts, and instructional strategies, readers learn how biography, historical context, literary craft, and textual analysis can work together to foster curiosity, empathy, critical thinking, and close reading.

Written for English teachers, teacher candidates, teacher educators, instructional coaches, and curriculum leaders, The Author-Driven Classroom offers a humane and practical vision of literature instruction that restores authors to the center of meaningful literary study.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lockhart-McHugh, Jennifer

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Weiterführende Schulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Literatur, Deutsch, Fremdsprachen (Unterricht & Didaktik)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. Reclaiming the Author in Literary Study 1. Passion, Craft, and the Literary Author 2. The Author as Human Presence in Literary Interpretation 3. From Background Knowledge to Author-Driven Inquiry Part II. Author-Centered Classroom Practice 4. Biography as Inquiry: Reading the Author Without Reducing the Text 5. Craft as Authorial Design: Building Symbolic Worlds 6. Identity, History, and Power in Author-Centered Instruction 7. Students as Authors Part III. Building an Author-Driven Curriculum 8. Teachers as Makers 9. The Canon, Standards, and Literary Lineages 10. From Author Research Cycles to Units of Study 11. Keeping Literature Human References Literary References Appendix A: Twenty Questions for Author-Centered Inquiry Appendix B: Sample Author Research Cycles Appendix C:  Illustrative Literary Lineages

Über Autor(innen)

Jennifer Lockhart-McHugh is a teacher, scholar, and author with more than twenty-five years of experience teaching English Language Arts in New Jersey’s public schools, including over fifteen years in Special Education inclusion classrooms.