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This chapter explores ways to utilize students’ interest in fantasy literature to support critical literacy. Focusing on Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games series (2008, 2009, 2010), the author addresses how elements of the trilogy relate to violent acts in our world, helping student understand that violence and brutality toward children is not fiction, but very real, and that they can play a role in its abolishment, just like Katniss, through social action projects.
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Simmons, A.M. (2014). Class on Fire. In: Paugh, P., Kress, T., Lake, R. (eds) Teaching towards Democracy with Postmodern and Popular Culture Texts. Imagination and Praxis. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-875-6_6
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