The Simpsons in the Classroom: Embiggening the Learning Experience with the Wisdom of Springfield

by Karma Waltonen and Denise Du Vernay

Book Overview

The object of much debate, attention, and scholarship since it first aired more than 20 years ago, The Simpsons provides excellent, if unexpected, fodder for high school and college lesson plans. After all, laughing students are hardly sleeping students But The Simpsons also provides a familiar student knowledge base which instructors can use as a jumping-off point to introduce concepts in literature, composition, linguistics, cultural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786444908
• ISBN13: 9780786444908
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher