Bibliography
Alvarez, Deborah . "I Had To Teach Hard:" Traumatic Conditions and Teachers in Post Katrina Classrooms." The High School Journal 94, no. Fall (2010): 28-39.This author is a seminar leader at a local initiative in Delaware. She happened to be visiting our National Initiative, and I was fortunate to spend an evening sharing some email exchanges of information with her. She emailed me this article directly.
Blinn, Cynthia . "Teaching Cognitive Skills to Effect Behavioral Change Through a Writing Program." Journal of Correctional Education 46, no. 4 (1995): 146-154.Blinn explains the Writing for Our Lives program created for Massachusetts correctional facilities. Her emphasis is on creating pro-social behaviors as an outcome, but she also depends on research that demands that literacy education is a key to reducing recidivism rates.
Brewin, Chris R., and Hayley Leonard. "Effects of Mode of Writing on Emotional Narratives." Journal of Traumatic Stress 12, no. 2 (1999): 355. http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/search/advanced?sid=c57ab683-7e37-4db0-ab09-31c7efc47268%40sessionmgr12&vid=1&hid=12 (accessed July 6, 2012).
Katsiyannis, Antonis, Joseph B. Ryan, Dalun Zhang, and Anastasia Spann. "Juvenile Delinquency and Recidivism: The Impact of Academic Achievement." Reading and Writing Quarterly 24, no. 2 (2008): 177-196. http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/search/advanced?sid=c57ab683-7e37-4db0-ab09-31c7efc47268%40sessionmgr12&vid=1&hid=12 (accessed July 11, 2012).
MacCurdy, Marian M.. The Mind's Eye: Image and Memory in Writing about Trauma. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007. This was a most helpful book. It most directly and thoroughly addressed the best strategies for leading students through a healing writing process in the classroom and explained the relationship between imagery and traumatic memory as they relate to the writing process.
Pennebaker, James W. "Writing about Emotional Experiences as a Therapeutic Process." Psychological Science 8, no. 3 (1997): 162-166. http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/search/advanced?sid=c57ab683-7e37-4db0-ab09-31c7efc47268%40sessionmgr12&vid=1&hid=12 (accessed July 6, 2012). Pennebaker has numerous brief, informative articles on writing therapy. I encountered him in many other source bibliographies.
Pennebaker, James W., and Janel D. Seagal. "Forming a Story: The Health Benefits of a Narrative." Journal of Clinical Psychology 55, no. 10 (1999): 1243-1254. http://content.epnet.com/ContentServer.asp?T=P& P=AN& K=2338446& EbscoContent=dGJyMMTo50Sep7E4yOvqOLCmr0qeqLFSr6y4SrWWxWXS& ContentCustomer=dGJyMPGrr06yqLFRuePfgeyx%2BEu3q64A& D=aph (accessed July 6, 2012).
Rogers-Adkinson, Diana , Kristine Melloy, Shannon Stuart, Lynn Fletcher, and Claudia Rinaldi. "Reading and Written Language Competency of Incarcerated Youth." Reading and Writing Quarterly 24, no. 2 (2008): 197-218. http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=a61990b2-f3db-4e22-8dcd-b345beb74c80%40sessionmgr12&vid=8&hid=7 (accessed July 11, 2012). Based on their sound research on literacy as an antidote to incarceration, I depended on their criteria for my classroom text selection.
Van der Oord, Saskia , S. Lucassen, A.A.P. Van Emmerik, and P.G.M. Emmelkamp. "Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children Using Cognitive Behavioral Writing Therapy." Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy 17, no. 3 (2010): 240-249. http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/search/advanced?sid=bedbdabf-1d5f-4abb-8917-2ba6b9238d47%40sessionmgr10&vid=1&hid=12 (accessed July 11, 2012). This study reaffirms other research I've included on narrative writing therapy, but the cognitive behavioral writing therapy it described is intended for a clinical setting.
Classroom Resources
Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street. New York: Vintage Books, 1991.
"The Ethicist." The New York Times Magazine online, selections.
Hughes, Langston . "Salvation." Salvation. www.courses.vcu.edu/ENG200-
dwc/hughes.htm (accessed July 13, 2012).
O'Brien, Tim. "In the Field." In The Things They Carried: a Work of Fiction. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. 155-170.
Spiegelman, Art. "Chapter Six." In Maus: a survivor's tale, I: My Father Bleeds History.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1986. 129-159.
Wright, Richard. "7." In Black Boy: (American Hunger): a Record of Childhood and
Youth. New York: Perennial Classics, 1998. 161-169.
Common Core Standards
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Reading
Key Ideas and Details: standards 1,2
Craft and Structure: standards 5,6
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: standard 9
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity: standard 10
Career and College Anchor Standards for Writing
Types and Purposes: standard 3
Production and Distribution of Writing: standards 4,5
Range of Writing: standard 10
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