Shop Teachers Lounge - Constructing an American Literature Conversation

A few weeks ago I received an email from a college student who will be student teaching in the fall. She came across a column I wrote in 1997 in which I described using the film Ordinary People as the basis of a writing assignment about The Catcher in the Rye. She wrote that she is carrying out a large project on the novel that involves, among other things, writing a research paper and developing lesson plans. She is concerned about possible objections from parents and students about the abundance of profanity in the novel and wondered if I would share some of the ways I taught the book.

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