Reading Saves Minds: Engaging Young Students in Critically Analyzing Extremism and Violence Through Classic Literature

How does one go about preparing students to live and thrive in an increasingly complex world? How can they be taught the skills necessary to face the violence and crises that often take center stage? Further, why address such subjects in schools? If asked to describe the state of the world today, most responses will not be positive. Yet this is the world that the next generation of young adults must enter. Violence and extremist ideologies are commonplace. Students lack basic analytical ski...