RESPONSIBILITY

Social Ethics and Political Morality: Using Tom and Huck to Develop Moral Reasoning

This lesson plan can be tailored to suit the needs of different grade levels. It 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 literature that involves making value decisions.

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