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Groenke, Susan Lee; Youngquist, Michelle – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2011
When the authors taught Walter Dean Myers's postmodern young adult novel "Monster" to ninth graders, they assumed the students would like the text, as its format and style resemble that of popular television crime shows. The authors also assumed the students would be savvy readers of the text, capable of understanding and integrating postmodern…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Adolescents, Postmodernism, Novels