, uses the texts she has taught at school to tell us about herself, her pupils, and her life over the past 40 years.). The authors covered range from Charles Dickens to Jeanette Winterson to Maya Angelou; from Shakespeare to Malorie Blackman. We learn how Atherton first came to the book and reacted to it, and then how she teaches it, and what her pupils thought.
While some see literature as “a collection of texts embodying some eternal truths, to be handed down reverently from one generation to another”, Atherton makes the case for more varied books in the classroom. The working-class 1960s classic,) teaches her students “the importance of the learning that young people do outside of school”, and the more recent YA historical novelAtherton is also very funny.
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