If you have to do it, Facing History’s “Teaching Mockingbird” resource is the way. For me, the distaste comes less from the book itself (though the book itself has several issues!) and more from the role it often serves.
Mockingbird
Transactional, meditative, joyful, anxious
San Pedro (not in red flag zone)
Omg I had that Bette of Roses album on REPEAT in high school. Thanks for unlocking a long forgotten memory!
“St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell, “Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu, “Borders” by Thomas King, “Jubilee” by Kirstin Valdez Quade (her whole collection is great)
My students made creative responses to Lord of the Flies using a critical theory lens and this little sculpture of William Golding’s brain demon is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen.
Woooow I really thought I had something for you 😅😅😅
Last one! I think about this thing he said about grief at least once a week.
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#TeachLivingPoets has a great lesson for it
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It’s not spoken word but this one (and really anything) by Hanif Abdurraqib
Just bought one for myself and one for a friend. Thank you for sharing!
Hello! I never posted anything on the bird app but you are the reason I fell into romance reading three years ago. So glad you’re here!
I agree!
