All you have to do is teach the book!
With the generous help of our donors, the Ayn Rand Institute Canada is providing classroom sets of Ayn Rand’s novels to high schools in Canada.
If you are a teacher, and you would like to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to teach Ayn Rand’s novels in your classroom, please complete the following form.
About the Books
Ayn Rand’s novels contain many elements that appeal strongly to young readers. They are inspiring and exciting stories, with heroic characters fighting for their ideals.
The novels portray events with profound and timeless significance, challenging readers to decide not just what will happen to particular characters, but what their own lives and the world should be like.
Anthem
A perfect addition to any unit on English dystopian literature, Rand’s novella Anthem offers students a unique opportunity to reflect on how living in a totalitarian society would impact life as an individual. With its short length and poetic style, Anthem is accessible even to 7th graders, but can be studied in greater depth up to the college level.
We the Living
We the Living provides an inside look at what life was like in Soviet Russia, written by an author who experienced it firsthand. While fictional, it is a historical and realistic portrayal of three young people and their personal struggle under a totalitarian regime. Following this romantic, but tragic story, students will reflect on the novel’s depiction of what it means to live and to love, and the kind of society that makes these pursuits impossible.
The Fountainhead
The Fountainhead deals with enduring themes of individualism, not in politics, but in the personal choices one makes about their work and relationships with others. The protagonist, Howard Roark, is an ambitious architect who is expelled from university, yet endeavors to achieve his unique vision against a mass of social opposition. The idealism in the story provides students with the inspiration and guidance they need as they begin their adult lives. It challenges students to reflect about their own futures and presents the kind of perspective that will give them courage for every step of the way.
Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged is ideal for the most promising and advanced classrooms. Among the most influential of 20th-century literature, this novel’s deep, philosophic content will challenge your students to think critically about the ideas that underlie our society. Published in 1957, Atlas Shrugged was radical for its time, from its enterprising heroine and railroad executive, Dagny Taggart, to the book’s mysterious hero, who rejects all conventional moral codes. These characters inspire ambitious students to push themselves, grow, and strive for a good life.
