Author(s): John Nogowski
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 145
Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
Language: English
Date Published: 2018-07-30
Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 8mm
Publication City/Country: Jefferson, NC, United States
Edition:
Illustrations:
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?
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 145
Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
Language: English
Date Published: 2018-07-30
Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 8mm
Publication City/Country: Jefferson, NC, United States
Edition:
Illustrations:
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?
Book Info | |
Author | John Nogowski |
Date Published | 2018-07-30 |
Dimensions | 152 x 229 x 8mm |
First Author | John Nogowski |
Format | Paperback |
ISBN | 9781476674285 |
Language | English |
No. of Pages | 145 |
Publication City/Country | Jefferson, NC, United States |
Publisher | McFarland & Co Inc |
Teaching Huckleberry Finn
- John Nogowski
- Paperback
- Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
- ISBN: 9781476674285
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