Confronting Concerns, Navigating Politics: Teaching young Adult Literature in High School English Departments

[...]YA literature can be seen as satisfying the increasingly steep demands of state education departments while still supporting the aims of a quality, critical ELA curriculum. [...]content material in many YA literature titles was considered controversial by some educators and faced pushback. [...]the team sought avenues to include novels listed on the AP book list in book clubs as well as YA literature. The Common Core State Standards, and state facsimiles of the standards, require students to write across texts as well. [...]our amended prompts could ask students to write about an idea across multiple books.