This multigenre project explores eight different genres that engage with the essential question and the primary text, Beartown by Fredrik Backman. In addition to each individual genre, each page contains a brief explanation of the content. This project explores how we understand the pressures placed on adolescent athletes and the effect it has on identity within our society. Beartown functions as just one of many literary pieces that explores questions of identity placed in the context of sports culture. This project seeks to explore the positive and negative effects that sports can have on individual identity, particularly the negative impacts that Beartown highlights. Hopefully you may use these ideas within your own classroom to teach this wonderful book!
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