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Reading "Unhappy" Books featuring Andrew Seidman [EP9]

Reading "Unhappy" Books featuring Andrew Seidman [EP9]

Update: 2019-04-01
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Why do we teach serious novels and tragic dramas, rather than "happy" books, in high school English? Andrew Seidman, St. Andrew's English teacher, shares how reading "unhappy" books helps students put themselves in someone else's shoes, an exercise in theory of the mind that builds social cognition and empathy.

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Reading "Unhappy" Books featuring Andrew Seidman [EP9]

Reading "Unhappy" Books featuring Andrew Seidman [EP9]

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