Beyond The Trope

We discuss some of the wonderful ways literature can be used in the classroom.   Mentioned in this episode: CALL IT COURAGE by Armstrong Sperry THE METAMORPHOSIS by Kafka THE LIGHTNING THIEF by Rick Riordan (http://www.rickriordan.com) THE DRESDEN FILES (series) by Jim Butcher TOM SAWYER and HUCKLEBERRY FINN by Mark Twain UNCLE TOM'S CABIN by Harriet Beecher Stowe FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury MARIE ANTOINETTE, SERIAL KILLER by Katie Alender JOHNNY TREMAIN by Esther Forbes MAUS by Art Spiegelman DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY and THUNDERSTRUCK by Erik Larson PARANORMALCY by Kiersten White THE DAY I SWAPPED MY DAD FOR TWO GOLDFISH by Neil Gaiman THE WALLOPING WINDOW-BLIND by Charles Edward Carryl