What was it like?
What was it like?: teaching history and culture through young adult literature Linda J. Rice; foreword by Alleen Pace Nilsen
Publisher: New York : Teachers College Press, Columbia University, c2006.
ISBN: 0807747122
DDC: 973.91071
LCC: E741
Edition: (cloth)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Active learning in theory and practice -- Overcoming economic
hardship and physical disability during the Great Depression
(1929-1939) -- Hunger of body, hunger of heart: Mexican American
young adult authors portray migrant farm experiences (1940s-1960s) --
Bearing witness to the horror of the holocaust (1939-1945): children
sho suffered and survived -- Deterioration of family and culture: the
impact of Japanese internment (1941-1945) -- Korean perseverance
during the Japanese occupation (1910-1945) -- Literature of the civil
rights movement (1950s-1960s): snapshots, speeches, and travels that
challenged young adults and changed them forever -- The plight of the
American soldier and children left behind in Vietnam (1959-1975).
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