Bring it to class : unpacking pop culture in literacy learning / Margaret C. Hagood, Donna E. Alvermann, Alison Heron-Hruby ; foreword by Kylene Beers.

Introduction: What's in Your Backpack?
A Textual Day in Life
Reflection Activity: What's Your Textual Day in a Life Look Like?
What's the Hang Up with Pop Culture Texts?
Views of Pop Culture
Reflection Activity: What Are My Views of Pop Culture?
Additional Resources
Unpacking Pop Culture
What Do We Mean by Pop Culture in Texts?
What Interests You and Your Students in Pop Culture?
Connecting Pop Culture Texts to Concepts in the Curriculum
How Does Multimodality Figure In?
Reflection Activity: Critical Reading of Blog
Pop Culture in Action: A Blueprint for a Blogging Project
Challenges to Using Pop Culture Texts in School
Additional Resources
How Does Pop Culture Connect to Standards?
Standards Influence How we View Pop Culture
How Has Pop Culture Been Used in Schools?
Reflection Activity: Literacy of Fusion
Linking Pop Culture and Academic Standars
Pop Culture in Action: Paul Revere Uses MapQuest
Reflection Activity: Uderstanding Visual Literacy
Making Pop Culture Valid
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Connection to Audiences, Connecting to the Canon
Memorizing Lyrics: It's All About Comprehending
Going Backstage with Students
Pop Culture in Action: Connecting Rap Lyrics to a Unit on Bullying
Center Stage: Adolescents Authoring Texts for Peer Audiences
Texts That Connect: Or Do They?
Reflection Activity: Fractured Expectations and Experiences of Text
Additional Resources
Connecting Pop Culture to Text Interpretation
What Is Interpretation?
Pop Culture in Action: "The Freshman"
Reflection Activity: Interpretive Communities in the Content Areas
Pop Culture and Conceptual Understanding
Pop Culture in Action: The Day the Earth Stood Still
Pop Culture as Interpretation
Additional Resources
Who Do People Think I Am, and Who Do I Want to Be?
How Do We Use Pop Culture to Construct Identity?
Identity and Subjectivity Played Out
Reflection Activity: Rewind and Redo?
Challenges to creating a Community of Trust
Reflection Activity: Representations of Teacher Identities in Popular Culture
Connecting Student Identity, Teacher Identity, and Instruction
Pop Culture in Action: Adolescents' Readings of Identities in Media
Additional Resources
Conclusions: Connecting Across Generations via Turning Around Pedagogies
Connecting Across Generations
Making a Space for Learning with 21st-Century Texts in Schools
Taking Stock
Reflections Activity: Time to Pepack?
"Turn-Around" Pedagogies
So How Do we Bring on This Turning Around?
Reflection Activity: Strategies for Small Steps
Last Words
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