Synopses & Reviews
Based on a need to teach writing and thinking across the curriculum, Harriet Scarborough worked with a number of her esteemed colleagues and practical thinking middle school and secondary school teachers to create a text for today's diverse classrooms. The author and her text contributors met regularly for a year to identify what was working in the classroom. They offer this book to you as you look to:
- give voice to the use of writing to mediate learning
- develop writing contexts for learning in content area classes
- create writing environments conducive t risk-taking
- make learning relevant and authentic for ALL students
About the Author
HARRIET ARZU SCARBOROUGH has taught middle school and high school language arts. She is now the high school language arts coordinator for Tucson Unified School District in Tucson, Arizona, and teaches methodology courses for preservice secondary teachers at the University of Arizona. Scarborough is the author of many journal articles and has made numerous presentations locally and nationally on teaching and learning in secondary schools as well s on diversity issues.
Table of Contents
I. WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM: MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE. 1. Promoting Literacy in Science Class, by Paula Bachman-Williams. 2. Math and Science in My English Class? Why Not?, by Anne-Marie Hall.
3. Writing in a Law-Related English Class, Carl Johannesson
4. Using Writing for Political Awareness`, by David Bachman-Williams.
II. WRITING TO LEARN. 5. La Voz Liberada: Writing to Learn in a Sheltered English Class, by Salvador Gabaldón.
6. Writing to Learn as a Way of Making Sense of the World, by MaryCarman E. Cruz.
7. Real Live Audiences for Real Live Communication: Writing to Learn and the Possibilities of Technology, by Loraine Chapman.
8. A Writing Teacher Learns, by Michael Robinson.
III. WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM. 9. “Forever on the Morning Wind:” Expanding the Canon of American Literature, by Edith Baker.
10. Place Poetry: A Form of Self-Expression, by Amy Rusk-Fousheé.
11. Perspectives on the Three Voices Narrative, by Carl C. Anderson.
IV. WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM: PROFESSIONAL PERSPECTIVES. 12. Bridging the Gaps and Spaces among Learners in a Writing-to-Learn Classroom, by Harriet Arzu Scarborough.
13. Making the Transition from High School to University Writing across the Curriculum, by Yvonne Merrill.
14. Rearranging Desks, by Alyson Isabel Whyte.
Index.