Teaching Huckleberry Finn - Why and How to Present the Controversial Classic in the High School Classroom (Paperback)

I am not sure I would call myself a scholar, yet I doubt there are many educators in America who have taken Mark Twain's work into the places I have and come out on the other side. In the current political climate, I'm fearful that books that challenge us like Huckleberry Finn-books that are controversial-will be abandoned for fear of that controversy, the idea of upsetting some mom or some well-meaning, ill-informed school board member. Don't teach the best stuff, teach the least offensive, things no one will object to-or remember. But wouldn't Huck's hard-scrabble life fit perfectly at my school? If Huck was alive, wouldn't he go to my school? Wouldn't Huck's life strike a sadly familiar chord with so many of these young people raised by a single mom or a grandma, a Dad unknown or incarcerated, a long, sad trail of trouble stretching in every direction? Wouldn't they find-didn't they need-a moral compass in their own lives to mirror the one in this extraordinary tale of two absolute misfits who cared about each other; one willing to go, as he so movingly says, "to Hell" to help the other?

General

Imprint:	McFarland & Company
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2018
Authors:	John Nogowski
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	145
ISBN-13:	978-1-4766-7428-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Children's literature studies Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching of a specific subject Books > Children's & Educational > Language & literature > English (including English as a school subject) > English literary criticism > General Books > Children's Fiction & Fun Promotions
LSN:	1-4766-7428-0
Barcode:	9781476674285

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