Description
Book SynopsisSea of Troubles has been designed for classroom teachers struggling to address the overwhelming issues facing our world today. By embracing the Common Core's emphasis on the inclusion of more nonfiction, informational texts, the authors have demonstrated how to incorporate meaningful informational texts into their favorite units of literature. Sea of Troubles shows teachers how literature and informational texts can work together, to enhance each other, and, by extension, enhance student's abilities to critically think and respond to the sea of troubles that pervades society.
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: Syntactical Othering and The Merchant of Venice
Chapter Two: Racial Injustice and A Raisin in the Sun
Chapter Three: Intertextuality in The Merchant of Venice and A Raisin in the Sun
Chapter Four: Abuses of Power and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Chapter Five: Authoritarianism in 1984 and Animal Farm
Chapter Six: Genocide and Ethnic Internment in Night and Farewell to Manzanar
Chapter Seven: Gender Inequality and The Handmaid’s Tale
Chapter Eight: The Tragedy of Growing Up in Romeo and Juliet and To Kill a Mockingbird
Bibliography
About the Authors
