Using Tom and Huck to Develop Moral Reasoning Brief Description Demonstrates how to use dilemma situations for literature to develop adolescent moral reasoning. Dilemmas involve questions of responsibility, fairness, rightness and wrongness, empathy and caring, and motive or intention. Sample activities focus on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Adapt these activities to any piece of… Read more »
Adventures of Obadiah by Brinton Turkle Amanda and the Giggling Ghost by Steven Kroll Bad Times of Irma Baumline by Carol Brink Berenstein Bears and the Truth by Stan and Jan Berenstein Big Fat Enormous Lie by Marjorie Sharmat The Cuckoo Child by Dick King-Smith The Cybil War by Betsy Byars A Day’s Work by… Read more »
Most of the books on this list are situational books that will lead to discussion of how self control was used or could have been used. Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman Angry by Susan Riley Baby Blue Cat Who Said No by Ainslie Pryor Berenstein Bears andthe Bad Habit by Stan andJan Berenstein Berenstein Bears… Read more »
