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Set at a boys’ boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.

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A lesson on film using A Separate Peace

An essay written by John Knowles about the Exeter School

Vocabulary for A Separate Peace

Series of lessons (10 days) about bullying. I thought that lessons 5,6,7, and 8 were great. I could see these creating great discussions for the type of kids.