Teaching Multicultural Young Adult Stories: Gary Soto’s Broken Chain in the Foreign Language Classroom

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English - Pedagogy, Didactics, Literature Studies, grade: 13 Punkte (1-), Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (Institut fur Anglistik), course: Multicultural Literature in the English Foreign Language Classroom, language: English, abstract: Contents 1. Introduction 1 2. Teaching stories to young adults in the FL classroom 2 3. Gary Soto’s Broken Chain 3.1. Summary 4 3.2. Main Characters 5 3.3. Narrative Situation 6 3.4. Stylistic Devices 6 4. Gary Soto’s Broken Chain in the EFL classroom 4.1. Presumptions 7 4.2. Pre-Reading Task 8 4.3. Detailed Description of one Lesson 9 4.4. While-Reading Task 10 4.5. Post-Reading Task 11 5. Conclusion 12 6. Works Cited 14 7. Appendix