There's no sex, drugs, or rock and roll to worry about with Republic. Rather your challenges are going to be helping students keep their eyeballs open. For some kids, Plato can give off some serious sleep rays. In order to avoid a mass snooze fest, we recommend connecting Republic to their lives.

Women's equality? Still an issue today and Plato has our back on this. Government? Education? Childrearing? Censorship? Individuality? Okay, we know that many students aren't really thinking about these things quite yet, but these issues still present society with plenty of problems—help kids get into these, and they just might perk up come reading time.