Developing a Critical Literacy Approach with "To Kill a Mockingbird.".
2000; Routledge; Issue: 126 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
0155-2147
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ResumoIn 1980, when I was in Year 10, To Kill A Mockingbird had pride of place beside To Sir With Love and A Patch of Blue. Vaguely through a blur of Mr. Graham's screeching chalk and flying blackboard dusters, I remember the labels he stuck on those texts: 'prejudice', 'racism', 'difference' and 'discrimination'. Almost forty years after Harper Lee's novel was first published (1960), it still sits on many Year 10 English courses across Australia, nudged up beside Romeo and Juliet and Dead Poets' Society. The constant resetting of these texts is almost a fact of life that we accept without question (when you're in Year 10, you 'do' To Kill A Mockingbird )-, some shrewd educational textbook publishers have spotted the pattern and produced course books to support these choices.
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