Rowman & Littlefield Announce Book For Teachers By NJCU Professor And Alumna

JERSEY CITY, N.J., Feb. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ Using Informational Text to Teach to Kill a Mockingbird by Dr. Audrey Fisch of Westfield, a professor of Englishand coordinator of secondary English education at New Jersey City University, and Susan Chenelle of Newark, an NJCU alumna (M.A. '11) who is an English and journalism teacher, English Department lead, and teaching coach for humanities at NJCU's University Academy Charter High School, has been published by Rowman & Littlefield.

The book is the first volume in Dr. Fisch and Ms. Chenelle's "Using Informational Text to Teach Literature" series for Rowman & Littlefield. The series will offer teachers classroom-ready materials to meet the informational text challenge of the Common Core State Standards while enhancing, not taking away from, their teaching of literature.

The 171-page book and its accompanying website feature a wide range of readings related to To Kill a Mockingbird that cover various topics, including the Depression, gender roles, stereotypes, lynching, miscegenation, and heroism.

Each informational text unit includes extensive vocabulary, writing, and discussion activities, ideas for evidence-based writing, connections to multimedia web resources, and rubrics for evaluating student work.

The book is available directly from Rowman & Littlefield or at Amazon.

Kelly Resch
Director of Communications
(201) 200-3461 kresch@njcu.edu

SOURCE New Jersey City University