Yin and Yang in the English Classroom

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.

Sandra Eckard is associate professor of English at East Stroudsburg University where she teaches writing, works with English Education students, and directs the Writing Studio, a tutoring spot for students. She specializes in teaching writing, tutoring writing, and using pop culture in the classroom.

Contents Part I - Literature Fundamentals and Pop Culture Connections Chapter 1 Entering a Noir World in the Classroom through Detective Fiction and Film Analysis Mary T. Christel Chapter 2 A PTI-Inspired Pedagogy: Appropriating Sports-Talk Discussion Protocols to Facilitate Literature Study Luke Rodesiler Chapter 3 Whose Side is He On? Teaching Complex Characters with Novels and Films Carmela Delia Lanza Chapter 4 The Graphic Novel as Historical Marker: Making "History Readable" Through Reader-Response Theory Carissa Pokorny-Golden Chapter 5 The Truth is Out There: Using Science Fiction as a Springboard to Teach Literature Sandra Eckard Chapter 6 Hacker Heuretics and Intertexuality in Videogames and English Language Arts Hannah R. Gerber Part II - Developing Writing and Critical Thinking Skills with Popular Culture Chapter 7 Make it Work: What We Can Learn About The Writing Process from Watching Project Runway April Brannon and Elle Yarborough Chapter 8 Up, Up, and Away: Superman in the Composition Classroom Alex Romagnoli Chapter 9 Popcorn and Movies for All: Four Reasons Feature Films Work in Developmental Writing Classes Salena Fehnel Chapter 10 The Heroine's Journey: Writing and Buffy the Vampire Slayer Jennifer Marmo Chapter 11 Speed Dating an iPad Until the Break of Dawn: Creative Techno-Feminist Pedagogy for Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga Laura Patterson Chapter 12 Composing Digital Found Poetry in Secondary English Language Arts Classrooms F. Blake Tenore and Katelynn Collins-Hall