Teaching The Bear That Wasn’t
We’ve always said that The Bear That Wasn’t would make an excellent graduation gift (“Welcome to the real world, kid!”), but now Rosalie Franks, blogging at The Southern Poverty Law Center, has a suggestion about how to work the book into a lesson plan:
Through this tale, students consider a profound question: Is each one of us who we think we are or are we defined by what other people say about us? What does it mean to have a sense of self?
Read the rest of her post here.
