By having the students look deeply at literature, the burden of teaching morals is shifted off the teacher s shoulders and placed into the context of the story. Here, it is the story that teaches while the teacher simply facilitates. Here I think the students can relate to the story as doing the teaching and not the teacher forcing their interpretations of morality on the students. Another powerful point that the article presents is that it gives strategies to teach these concepts to my classroom. The variety of methods will surely keep it interesting for both my students and myself.
Kids tend to turn to their peers for guidance in the absence of other, more knowledgeable teachers.
This leaves them with television, modern music, and their friends who are looking for the same guidance. Teaching literature in this manner not only gives a new since of worth to the material, but also will have students reading and thinking deeply about what they have read.