Tag: teaching adolescent literature

• Reading the Hunger Games: A Post That Has Very Little to Do With The Hunger Games

  In her post “Why Dystopias Matter,” Wendy Daughdrill offers several reasons for the current popularity of dystopian fiction in YA lit. My favorite? High school is a lot like a dystopia! I have reflected more than once on the irony of growing up to become a high school teacher: I HATED high school! I could […]

  Elisabeth Ellington

  January 13, 2013

  adolescent literature, teaching

  curriculum, Hunger Games, reading, teaching adolescent literature