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ERIC Number: EJ677037
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2003
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ISSN: ISSN-1081-3004
"The Textbooks Never Said Anything About...." Adolescents Respond to "The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo."
Connor, Julia Johnson
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, v47 n3 p240-46 Nov 2003
Considers how the use of a picture book with adolescents enhances lessons and evokes aesthetic responses. Reports 11th and 12th graders' efferent and aesthetic responses to the poignantly evocative narrative paintings portrayed in the wordless picture book "The Middle Passage" by Tom Feelings. (SG)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Critical Thinking, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Grade 11, Grade 12, Picture Books, Reader Response, Reading Instruction, Secondary Education, Student Attitudes
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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