“Bound In to Saucy Doubts and Fears”: Examining America’s Culture of Fear

For Laura M. Grow, one of the worst results of 9/11 is how it intensified an already widespread culture of fear. To encourage her students to develop critical literacy strategies that can help them distinguish legitimate worries from those contrived by fearmongers, Grow has designed a writing unit about fear. She draws on a variety of print and visual sources.