What we teach and why : contemporary literary theory and adolescents -- Prisms of possibilities : introducing multiple perspectives -- The lens of reader response : the promise and peril of response-based pedagogy -- What's class got to do with it? : reading literature through the lens of privilege and social class -- The social construction of gender : a lens of one's own -- Columbus did what? : postcolonialism in the literature classroom -- Deconstruction : postmodern theory and the postmodern high school student -- Lenses and learning styles : acknowledging student plurality with theoretical plurality -- Critical encounters : reading the world.