What was it like? : teaching history and culture through young adult literature

Rice, Linda J. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780807747117 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0807747114 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780807747124 (cloth)
ISBN: 0807747122 (cloth)
Physical Description: xiv, 202 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
print
Publisher: New York : Teachers College Press, Columbia University, [2006]
Copyright: ©2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Active learning in theory and practice -- 2. Overcoming economic hardship and physical disability during the Great depression (1929-1939) -- 3. Hunger of body, hunger of heart : Mexican American young adult authors portray migrant farm experiences (1940s-1960s) -- 4. Bearing witness to the horror of the Holocaust (1939-1945) : children who suffered and survived -- 5. Deterioration of family and culture : the impact of Japanese internment (1941-1945) -- 6. Korean perserverance during the Japanese occupation (1910-1945) -- 7. Literature of the civil rights movement (1950s-1960s) : snapshots, speeches, and travels that challenged young adults and changed them forever -- 8. The plight of the American soldier and children left behind in Vietnam (1959-1975)