This teacher's guide to Bruce Brooks's Asylum for Nightface, What Hearts & The Moves Make the Man provides a pre-reading activity and classroom discussion questions for these three coming-of-age stories about teenage boys facing challenging issues, including fundamentalist Christianity, casual drug use, child abuse, racial bigotry, questionable parenting, and suicide. This literature guide also includes an interview with the author, reading skills and strategies, and activities to use across your curriculum.
A Guide to Teaching Bruce Brooks's Asylum for Nightface, What Hearts & The Moves Make the Man
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