Encouraging Activism in Secondary English: Reading and Writing for Social Justice

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Encouraging Activism in Secondary English: Reading and Writing for Social Justice provides a framework to encourage social justice teaching in the secondary English classroom by providing teachers with questions to consider as they plan their curriculum. The framework is applied to commonly taught texts and suggests texts that could be paired with those anchor texts as well as related social movements and writing or composing activities that would encourage students to take action in issues that matter to them.

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Beth Spinner is a professor of English Education. She taught middle and high school English before becoming a teacher educator. Her research focuses on ways to promote social justice in the English classroom, especially in ways that work to make curriculum meaningful and engaging for students. She lives and teaches in Michigan.