One of our teachers asked for high-interest YA titles regarding three themes in Macbeth:  

How are a person's choices shaped by nature and nuture?
How are we held accountable for the decisions we make?
How does literature connect to the reader, to other texts, or to society?

Here's what I put together as a starting point for his class:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cjIwLVkuks2Hff5HDQhq9WvI0PLl2BaYZFyrK69kbtc/edit?usp=sharing

On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 9:43 AM, Nancy Carlson <carlsonn@fpsct.org> wrote:
These are older books, The Disreputable History of Frankie Banks by E. Lockhart.
Uglies by Westerfield.


Nancy M. Carlson
Farmington High School
Farmington, CT  06032
carlsonn@fpsct.org
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Currently reading  Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
Currently listening to Little Monsters by Kara Thomas

On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 8:26 AM, Loretta Sullivan <b59lgian@mpspride.org> wrote:
Hello,

We have a request from one of our teachers.  Please see below.  Any ideas?  Greatly appreciated...!  Thanks for any and all input.

"I'm co-teaching Macbeth in a sophomore honors class this quarter. We're mostly reading the play in class, but I'd love to give the students something to read at home as well.

Ideally, I'd like five or six books (variety of writers, protagonists, etc) that relate in some way to the theme of power/ambition or that in some other way have an interesting connection with Macbeth.

I've scoured the book room for books that relate that maybe no one teaches anymore, but haven't found much. I pulled A Separate Peace, Athletic Shorts, Othello, and Hamlet. Those are all male protagonists, all written by white men, etc. Like Water for Chocolate crossed my mind (war, mysticism), as did Carter Beats the Devil (power, the supernatural).
​"
Respectfully,

Loretta Sullivan
Library Media Specialist
Manchester High School



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