We might think of literary works as sites of potential energy, capable of connecting with different communities and addressing different issues, if taught strategically. Click on a title to see teaching and discussion ideas.
Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
Ted Chiang, “Story of Your Life“
Charles Dickens, Hard Times
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
Ursula Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
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