Yin and Yang in the English Classroom

Edited by Sandra Eckard - Contributions by April Brannon; Mary T. Christel; Katelynn Collins-Hall; Salena Fehne...

Yin and Yang in the English Classroom: Teaching With Popular Culture Texts is designed to provide college professors and high school teachers with both halves they need to tackle the job of teaching students literature and writing skills: theoretical foundations of, and practical applications for, the modern classroom.

ContentsPart I - Literature Fundamentals and Pop Culture ConnectionsChapter 1Entering a Noir World in the Classroom through Detective Fiction and Film AnalysisMary T. ChristelChapter 2A PTI-Inspired Pedagogy:Appropriating Sports-Talk Discussion Protocols to Facilitate Literature StudyLuke RodesilerChapter 3Whose Side is He On? Teaching Complex Characters with Novels and FilmsCarmela Delia LanzaChapter 4The Graphic Novel as Historical Marker:Making "History Readable" Through Reader-Response TheoryCarissa Pokorny-GoldenChapter 5The Truth is Out There: Using Science Fiction as a Springboard to Teach LiteratureSandra EckardChapter 6Hacker Heuretics and Intertexuality in Videogames and English Language ArtsHannah R. GerberPart II - Developing Writing and Critical Thinking Skills with Popular CultureChapter 7Make it Work:What We Can Learn About The Writing Process from Watching Project RunwayApril Brannon and Elle YarboroughChapter 8Up, Up, and Away: Superman in the Composition ClassroomAlex RomagnoliChapter 9Popcorn and Movies for All:Four Reasons Feature Films Work in Developmental Writing ClassesSalena FehnelChapter 10The Heroine's Journey: Writing and Buffy the Vampire SlayerJennifer MarmoChapter 11Speed Dating an iPad Until the Break of Dawn:Creative Techno-Feminist Pedagogy for Stephenie Meyer's Twilight SagaLaura PattersonChapter 12Composing Digital Found Poetry in Secondary English Language Arts ClassroomsF. Blake Tenore and Katelynn Collins-Hall