High school teacher here - not an English teacher, but I’m friends with many. I think this video is really cool, and this idea is AWESOME - but, I want to mention that a huge reason that a lot of teachers teach “classics” instead of contemporary work is cost. It’s expensive to buy 30+ copies of a novel and it’s so hard to predict how well a novel will hold up and whether kids will still want to read a particular contemporary book in 10 years (and we really need to get 10 years out of resources sometimes with such small budgets). I’m saying this because it would be REALLY COOL if there were a way for teachers to borrow class sets of your book, or share them with other like-minded teachers, or something cool like that! I have no idea if anything like that is feasible - I just know that I have many friends who teach The Outsiders or To Kill a Mockigbird not because they chose those book, but because the budget was dried up and that was what they had to work with that year. Just sharing some thoughts!
In my limited, anecdotal experience in Australian high schools, each student buys the books for the year as part of their books list along with their textbooks for the year, they then own that book. The teacher will only have their own personal copy. I think this divide may be why my high school taught several books released less than 10 years before we read them in class. The note about teaching resources/content still would apply.
Thanks for this! I think it would be really cool if we could create something like that! I'll bring it up the next time I'm chatting with my publisher, though my guess is that lots of smart people have thought through these problems...maybe there's something here!
I use contemporary books mostly in my classroom for small reading groups. Students grapple in a small group setting, and I love it. Thank you for this; I've been thinking about adding this book to my list. Also, thank you for writing it!
As a going-to-be first-year English teacher, who is pushing for contemporary literature in the classroom, thank you for doing this and opening up your channel to students' questions and the ability for students to have this conversation with you. I know it would mean a lot to my future students. Thank you for giving students your time, and yes, for making our lives easier! I love your book and I hope I have the chance to share it with young people.
I do a lot of reading and I finished I think 3 of the at least 16 books I was supposed to read in HS.Two of them I had already read prior to them being assigned. There’s something about being told to read something that makes you automatically not want to do so.
@@mariewikiwaka3851 Same. I think I finished a grand total of 1 book that I was supposed to in HS, and that was about a month after I was supposed to. Once I was in college/after, I read as many of those books that had previously been assigned as possible. My main thing is that I'm a slow reader, so I finished about 20 pages by the time that we were supposed to be done in HS, but if I can do it on my own time, it's great! I just wish I could also get a redo on the discussion now that I know what people were talking about...
I've been following Vlogbrothers since 2008 (maybe 2009?) and stuff like this is why I've stuck with you guys. Your genuineness and commitment to helping people continues to inspire me every day. DFTBA!
Hello Hank, as a public school English teacher and fan of your work, I couldn't be more happy that you're doing this. This is a powerful move, and a timely one. Your instincts that classics are generally seen as "better" for school, or at least not argued against, is right, but this fact is changing. Teachers are leading the fight to bring in more inclusive books (I mean, pre-20th century, how inclusive could the canon be?), and inspiring students to read what they choose to read, not what the teacher choose them to read. Sure, we encourage great books, but a love for reading starts with choice and is enhanced by a supportive guide. (reference Donalyn Miller's work and Penny Kittle, if you're interested.) In any case, since I'm a 6th grade teacher, your book (although great) is a little out of that range. BUT, I do run and host an educator podcast called Teach Me, Teacher where we reach thousands of educators both on social media (Facebook primarily) and the podcast itself. I'll share this video on the Teach Me, Teacher Facebook page (40K strong), but I'd also like to mention it through he podcast releasing this Monday, if that'd be something you're into. As a small side note: the show has featured Brendan Kiely, co-author of All American Boys where we talked about this exact topic, plus many other major names in education. I'd love to partner with you on this in some way, if that's something you're interested in. Regardless, my praise to you. Hopefully the Teach Me, Teacher audience will see value in this like I do! -Jacob
I teach college English, and I'm doing a "literature of the new millennium" class this semester for precisely the reasons you talked about! I feel like we can't really assume nowadays that most of our students are going to come to a love of reading on their own (which seemed to be the case when I was in school), and so we have to provide students with books that speak directly and viscerally to their experiences, in a way that Henry James or Shakespeare might not. I've usually taught really canonical texts, so I'm really excited to see how things will go this semester.
@@smallandhasty Sure thing! I should say that almost all of these books contain some pretty racy material, and so they might not be appropriate for high school students, but the full list is as follows: Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace Selected Unpublished Blog Posts of a Mexican Panda Express Employee by Megan Boyle Save the World by Ariana Reines (from her book "Mercury") And I'll also be showing Jerrod Carmichael's 8!
Hank please post the questions and your answers somewhere so that English teachers and their students everywhere can access those answers even if they do not get to ask a question!!! :) Thanks
consider posting all q&as to hankschannel unlisted, share all of them with the English teacher mailing list essentially, & occasionally make a couple viewable by the broader public
High school English teacher here. I'd love to use this book in my new media unit! Just need the $$ to buy enough copies! I've plugged your book so many times to students already. Great great book!
I'll send this video to my English teachers, hopefully they can find a way to add AART to the curriculum. The book was amazing and more people need to read it.
Hello, Hank Green. I am a teacher. But I am a science teacher, so not teaching your book 📖 but use your videos all the time! The microbe channel is going to be so good with my Grade 6 and Grade 11 classes! 💕
As someone who is currently in University to become a High School English teacher, as well as an avid lover of YA novels, I am absolutely in love with this proposal! I wish movements like this were more common place, and I really appreciate that you took the time to consider this. Thank you Hank
I I am a Canadian middle school librarian so I wouldn’t teach a novel with a class myself but I really appreciated this video and will pass it on to other teachers and librarians in my district. At our school there is a fund for resources and we are able to buy class sets of novels, which we share among the classes in the school. If a teacher wants a book we don’t have we often borrow class sets from other schools especially if we’re not sure that the book will be a perennial favorite. We also buy smaller sets of a variety of books, to do what we call literature circles which I guess amounts to book club type discussion groups. Getting smaller sets of more contemporary books to complement titles we already have is more economical than new full class sets of single titles.
Hank : " Was i in school 25 years ago ? Yes ? " me : * googling Hank's age and finding that he is 39 years old * me : Yes you were definitely in school
I truly wish my education included modern texts in our curriculum... I live in the south and it's an odd mix of every teen living in the modern world through the internet, and our teachers exclusively showing us literature that is more than 50 years old. In fact several of johns books were banned at my high school. Hopefully, someday I can be the type of teacher that will help achieve this goal. I'm so happy you posted this :)
Middle school Science teacher here: Thank you for your attitude and all the work you do to make teachers' lives easier. You've helped me educationally and now I use the tools you've given me to help others. Thank you.
I am a recently graduated and certified English Teacher in Oklahoma and I LOVED AART. I would love to teach it someday but I’m not sure if the school I’d end up teaching in would be able to afford new books or if it would be accepted by the parents because it’s deep conservative Oklahoma south and you know how that goes. 🙃 But I would LOVE to teach it. I read it while I was taking my Persuasive Writing and Logic course and I could see so many of the terms we had discussed in it when it comes to discourse and building online personas. It was AWESOME!
This is so cool, Hank! I’m a first year English teacher, integrating contemporary literature into my class, and its so cool to see an author reaching out. Halfway through your novel (don’t take pace as distaste!), I LOVE it. It’s so eye opening about the culture and society in which we live! I would love to teach it, but I don’t think for my demographic and age group it would work... maybe some day! Thanks for being kind to teachers and writing such an... absolutely remarkable thing!
Read this book in a small group in a YA/NA Fiction course in college, and it was great to talk to a bunch of 20-somethings about issues we felt connected to in our present. I hope any teacher taking on this book with a class not only enjoys it but grows from having talked about it together
This reminds of how excited I was to read maus for class, a graphic novel! It's an old book but I was still surprised they picked it and spent the budget buying these books instead of some older classic
I’m a little confused: email you to like “sign up” in this project or with questions once we start teaching it? -- Not hs, but thinking about teaching it for Intro to College Writing w a section on Global Identity, i think its a fun break from writing exercises and v relevant themes for how young people construct their identities.
This is so cool! I loved my high school English classes and if I had had a similar opportunity to communicate with the authors of books I read I would have been overjoyed!
I am studying to become a professor, and although I will not be teaching English (I'm teaching Communication). I find this book very interesting in the way that it addresses the rhetoric of social media and the ways that we present ourselves online. I don't know if I will ever be able to teach this book, but I would honestly love to.
Hank, as a teacher, I think this is really cool. I teach Middle School English, so they're a little young for the book (except maybe the eighth graders) but if I taught high school, I would definitely want to be a part of this. I think kids would be really excited to hear from an author. It helps them make connections and also can increase their love of learning. I have had students write to authors before and none of them have ever written back. I know many of them are very busy, but it is nice to see an author who actually is putting himself out there for kids.
I love this! I teach biology in the Netherlands, but I did advise the English teachers at my school to put it on the reading list. I found it to be very informative while still being a fun read.
Not an English teacher, but this is a great idea! I do feel the need to point out that you only promised to wear a button down when you're sending the videos, not necessarily when answering the questions. So I hope you do something crazy with that! ;D
I'm a teacher but I teach English as a foreign language in primary school. So not useful for me but I wish other authors would have done a video like this about the books we discussed back at school
You cand John have been a fantastic influence in my life- in being wary of social media, appreciating teachers, and mental health. Thank you. Thank you so much
I loved your book so much. It was the first book I'd read in 2019, and very appropriate timing too. I read it during my 6-month social media hiatus and it made me think about lots of things. Thank you. :)
if i were teaching i would try and use this endeavor along with many of John's videos to explore the idea of author intention and the meaning brought to a work by the one who experiences it.
I'm so glad they're teaching this in class I'd go back to school just to study it. Obviously I'm kidding cause I already own it and I hated high school but you know what I mean
this is so great! I remember when I was in school, our school librarian just like...happened to know (or got in contact with, I guess?) a couple of pretty great authors (one was Michael Morpurgo, who wrote War Horse, among other things, and we studied his book Private Peaceful, the other was Eleanor Updale, we studied the first Montmorency book And they came to our school and we got to chat with them and ask questions and I think Eleanor (I can't remember which of them did it) played some like literary games with us which are intended to help people write stories, and they signed our books! I still have my signed copies of Montmorency and Out of the Ashes (I had TONS of Morpurgo books, and that one was my favourite at the time) so yay for authors getting involved with schools teaching their books!
Your so sweet hank! As a new teacher this made me so thrilled that u would like to be involved! Im going to teach 3rd grade nd wish they would understand ur book because I loved it bt thats obviously not a third grade book haha 💚
I am a Teacher and, long story short, have been begging to be able to purchase John's Reader's Guide for 'If You Come Softly' from Life's Library, after purchasing 40+ copies for my school. It pains me to say that I would have considered purchasing Hank's book as a class reader, but probably won't now because of the frustration from the lack of support after reaching out to John's staff.
I teach the tiny people (6 year olds) and BY GOD, for me at least, contemporary stuff is SO good. I probably do 50/50 comtemporary and classic literature. I hope my kiddies read your book in 8 years time! that would just warm me up
I've been graduated from high school for 4 years now but I just emailed this to my old highshool principal who I knew well, as well I sent it to my friend who is now a teacher (not english but I'm hoping he will send it to an english teacher). This is such a cool idea. I hope its a huge hit for you! I would have loved this author, reader interaction as a high school student. Heck, id love it now lol. Cant wait to read your book!"̮
This is such an amazing opportunity! I studied in India so the idea of studying any contemporary literature in English was unheard of, but I always wanted to be able to ask questions to authors and if I was in class and the teacher was like "oh hey the author answered your question" i would be so shook! Its also so nice to see how happy Hank is even by the possibility of his boook being taught. I hope someone decides to teach your book Hank!
“There’s no sex scenes, but people... have sex” I don’t know why, but this feels like the theme of my life 😂 probably not the comment you were looking for hank green
As a substitute teacher in a more rural part of Georgia, I actually have seen some teachers use contemporary literature in some aspects of their course. I've seen Mosquitoland, Dear Evan Hansen, Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian, etc. Not sure how many of those choices were teacher-led, but there is hope if you would like your book taught in schools!
Just a non-teacher comment passing through. Mildly surprised that 'teachingaart' was not already taken as an email handle by the art teachers of the gmail user base. Also, I want a comedy of errors involving art emails being sent to the AART email address.
This is just a heads up that the "Teacher Nerdfighters" Facebook group has been talking about this, and it might be a useful streamlined platform for teachers to interact with this project. :)
On a related note (I'm a literature student so apologies in advance for whatever stupid shit I end up writing), do you think the way we teach books risks placing too much emphasis on the figure of the author? In my view, what meaning we get out of a book should, ideally, be taken from the book, not the author. God knows Shakespeare was a prick, but I can't help falling in love with his works every time I read them
Hi Hank, I love the way that you (and your brother) engage with....frankly, everybody. But I'm wondering how you think this squares with the concept of 'death of the author?' I'm not an expert on this but I did watch a Lindsay Ellis vid on it. She might argue that your views on your book are no more important than anyone else's. Sorry if this comes off a bit like a dig, it really isn't, I am just curious.
sadly i never read a book in class that resonated with me :( that was partly my fault because of my attitude but mostly i blame the teachers, their choice of books but even more their way of teaching them to me.
High school teacher here - not an English teacher, but I’m friends with many. I think this video is really cool, and this idea is AWESOME - but, I want to mention that a huge reason that a lot of teachers teach “classics” instead of contemporary work is cost. It’s expensive to buy 30+ copies of a novel and it’s so hard to predict how well a novel will hold up and whether kids will still want to read a particular contemporary book in 10 years (and we really need to get 10 years out of resources sometimes with such small budgets). I’m saying this because it would be REALLY COOL if there were a way for teachers to borrow class sets of your book, or share them with other like-minded teachers, or something cool like that! I have no idea if anything like that is feasible - I just know that I have many friends who teach The Outsiders or To Kill a Mockigbird not because they chose those book, but because the budget was dried up and that was what they had to work with that year. Just sharing some thoughts!
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In my limited, anecdotal experience in Australian high schools, each student buys the books for the year as part of their books list along with their textbooks for the year, they then own that book. The teacher will only have their own personal copy. I think this divide may be why my high school taught several books released less than 10 years before we read them in class.
The note about teaching resources/content still would apply.
Thanks for this! I think it would be really cool if we could create something like that! I'll bring it up the next time I'm chatting with my publisher, though my guess is that lots of smart people have thought through these problems...maybe there's something here!
Klycarbo just curious, how does that work for low income students?
hankschannel Awesome! It would be cool if it worked out!!
John: Authorial Intent doesn't matter!
Hank: Ask me questions about my authorial intent!
I use contemporary books mostly in my classroom for small reading groups. Students grapple in a small group setting, and I love it. Thank you for this; I've been thinking about adding this book to my list. Also, thank you for writing it!
As a going-to-be first-year English teacher, who is pushing for contemporary literature in the classroom, thank you for doing this and opening up your channel to students' questions and the ability for students to have this conversation with you. I know it would mean a lot to my future students. Thank you for giving students your time, and yes, for making our lives easier! I love your book and I hope I have the chance to share it with young people.
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I'm also going to be a first year English teacher, and was thinking the same thing!
Yes, those books Hank read in highschool of which he famously finished not even one.
I do a lot of reading and I finished I think 3 of the at least 16 books I was supposed to read in HS.Two of them I had already read prior to them being assigned. There’s something about being told to read something that makes you automatically not want to do so.
@@mariewikiwaka3851 Same. I think I finished a grand total of 1 book that I was supposed to in HS, and that was about a month after I was supposed to. Once I was in college/after, I read as many of those books that had previously been assigned as possible. My main thing is that I'm a slow reader, so I finished about 20 pages by the time that we were supposed to be done in HS, but if I can do it on my own time, it's great! I just wish I could also get a redo on the discussion now that I know what people were talking about...
Lolcatsdeamon13 Yea my Lit teacher in HS just had terrible taste in novels and I had her for 3 years. Your excuse is better than mine.
@@mariewikiwaka3851 Lol but it's a fair excuse. Forcing people to finish horrible books is a great way to encourage non-readers!
I've been following Vlogbrothers since 2008 (maybe 2009?) and stuff like this is why I've stuck with you guys. Your genuineness and commitment to helping people continues to inspire me every day. DFTBA!
Hank i love you and you are nuts you do not have time for this.
"Somebody please give me another project!"
I teach social studies, but I will pass this on to my English teacher friends.
Hello Hank, as a public school English teacher and fan of your work, I couldn't be more happy that you're doing this. This is a powerful move, and a timely one. Your instincts that classics are generally seen as "better" for school, or at least not argued against, is right, but this fact is changing. Teachers are leading the fight to bring in more inclusive books (I mean, pre-20th century, how inclusive could the canon be?), and inspiring students to read what they choose to read, not what the teacher choose them to read. Sure, we encourage great books, but a love for reading starts with choice and is enhanced by a supportive guide. (reference Donalyn Miller's work and Penny Kittle, if you're interested.)
In any case, since I'm a 6th grade teacher, your book (although great) is a little out of that range. BUT, I do run and host an educator podcast called Teach Me, Teacher where we reach thousands of educators both on social media (Facebook primarily) and the podcast itself. I'll share this video on the Teach Me, Teacher Facebook page (40K strong), but I'd also like to mention it through he podcast releasing this Monday, if that'd be something you're into.
As a small side note: the show has featured Brendan Kiely, co-author of All American Boys where we talked about this exact topic, plus many other major names in education. I'd love to partner with you on this in some way, if that's something you're interested in.
Regardless, my praise to you. Hopefully the Teach Me, Teacher audience will see value in this like I do!
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I teach college English, and I'm doing a "literature of the new millennium" class this semester for precisely the reasons you talked about! I feel like we can't really assume nowadays that most of our students are going to come to a love of reading on their own (which seemed to be the case when I was in school), and so we have to provide students with books that speak directly and viscerally to their experiences, in a way that Henry James or Shakespeare might not. I've usually taught really canonical texts, so I'm really excited to see how things will go this semester.
@@smallandhasty Sure thing! I should say that almost all of these books contain some pretty racy material, and so they might not be appropriate for high school students, but the full list is as follows:
Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
Selected Unpublished Blog Posts of a Mexican Panda Express Employee by Megan Boyle
Save the World by Ariana Reines (from her book "Mercury")
And I'll also be showing Jerrod Carmichael's 8!
Hank please post the questions and your answers somewhere so that English teachers and their students everywhere can access those answers even if they do not get to ask a question!!! :) Thanks
consider posting all q&as to hankschannel unlisted, share all of them with the English teacher mailing list essentially, & occasionally make a couple viewable by the broader public
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Currently crying of happiness over the vlogbrothers video and now there’s this. Ahhh thanks for the happy posts today Mr. Green!
I truly hope that there is a little nerdfighter out there in one of these classes that sends in the question...
Who the eff is Hank?
High school English teacher here. I'd love to use this book in my new media unit! Just need the $$ to buy enough copies! I've plugged your book so many times to students already. Great great book!
Melissa Duckett look into donors choose
I'll send this video to my English teachers, hopefully they can find a way to add AART to the curriculum. The book was amazing and more people need to read it.
Hello, Hank Green. I am a teacher.
But I am a science teacher, so not teaching your book 📖 but use your videos all the time!
The microbe channel is going to be so good with my Grade 6 and Grade 11 classes! 💕
We read your book for my class in May!
English teacher here, bless you Hank. Wish I could participate but...Oklahoma
Kenzie Kay Thank you for teaching in a place that doesn’t make it easy for you. You change lives every day.
I thought you didn't read any of the books you were supposed to read in high school... (I think I heard this on Dear Hank and John)
I remembered he said that later he still read these books and realized how amazing they were
As someone who is currently in University to become a High School English teacher, as well as an avid lover of YA novels, I am absolutely in love with this proposal! I wish movements like this were more common place, and I really appreciate that you took the time to consider this. Thank you Hank
What a fantastic thing for an author to do, I hope it sets some kind of precedent.
I I am a Canadian middle school librarian so I wouldn’t teach a novel with a class myself but I really appreciated this video and will pass it on to other teachers and librarians in my district. At our school there is a fund for resources and we are able to buy class sets of novels, which we share among the classes in the school. If a teacher wants a book we don’t have we often borrow class sets from other schools especially if we’re not sure that the book will be a perennial favorite. We also buy smaller sets of a variety of books, to do what we call literature circles which I guess amounts to book club type discussion groups. Getting smaller sets of more contemporary books to complement titles we already have is more economical than new full class sets of single titles.
Hank : " Was i in school 25 years ago ? Yes ? "
me : * googling Hank's age and finding that he is 39 years old *
me : Yes you were definitely in school
I wish I was in school so I could experience reading your book with that level of engagement.
I truly wish my education included modern texts in our curriculum... I live in the south and it's an odd mix of every teen living in the modern world through the internet, and our teachers exclusively showing us literature that is more than 50 years old. In fact several of johns books were banned at my high school. Hopefully, someday I can be the type of teacher that will help achieve this goal. I'm so happy you posted this :)
this is so exciting! I am student teaching this upcoming Fall 2019 and Spring 2020!! I am able to pick a book for my unit plan :)))) I sent an email.
Middle school Science teacher here: Thank you for your attitude and all the work you do to make teachers' lives easier. You've helped me educationally and now I use the tools you've given me to help others. Thank you.
I am a recently graduated and certified English Teacher in Oklahoma and I LOVED AART. I would love to teach it someday but I’m not sure if the school I’d end up teaching in would be able to afford new books or if it would be accepted by the parents because it’s deep conservative Oklahoma south and you know how that goes. 🙃
But I would LOVE to teach it. I read it while I was taking my Persuasive Writing and Logic course and I could see so many of the terms we had discussed in it when it comes to discourse and building online personas. It was AWESOME!
The best part about this video is how uncertain Hank was about whether or not he was in school 25 years ago, LOL.
This is so cool, Hank! I’m a first year English teacher, integrating contemporary literature into my class, and its so cool to see an author reaching out. Halfway through your novel (don’t take pace as distaste!), I LOVE it. It’s so eye opening about the culture and society in which we live! I would love to teach it, but I don’t think for my demographic and age group it would work... maybe some day! Thanks for being kind to teachers and writing such an... absolutely remarkable thing!
My girlfriend's teacher had the class read your book it made me so happy!
Read this book in a small group in a YA/NA Fiction course in college, and it was great to talk to a bunch of 20-somethings about issues we felt connected to in our present. I hope any teacher taking on this book with a class not only enjoys it but grows from having talked about it together
This reminds of how excited I was to read maus for class, a graphic novel! It's an old book but I was still surprised they picked it and spent the budget buying these books instead of some older classic
I’m a little confused: email you to like “sign up” in this project or with questions once we start teaching it? -- Not hs, but thinking about teaching it for Intro to College Writing w a section on Global Identity, i think its a fun break from writing exercises and v relevant themes for how young people construct their identities.
This is so cool! I loved my high school English classes and if I had had a similar opportunity to communicate with the authors of books I read I would have been overjoyed!
I am studying to become a professor, and although I will not be teaching English (I'm teaching Communication). I find this book very interesting in the way that it addresses the rhetoric of social media and the ways that we present ourselves online. I don't know if I will ever be able to teach this book, but I would honestly love to.
Hank, as a teacher, I think this is really cool. I teach Middle School English, so they're a little young for the book (except maybe the eighth graders) but if I taught high school, I would definitely want to be a part of this. I think kids would be really excited to hear from an author. It helps them make connections and also can increase their love of learning. I have had students write to authors before and none of them have ever written back. I know many of them are very busy, but it is nice to see an author who actually is putting himself out there for kids.
I love this! I teach biology in the Netherlands, but I did advise the English teachers at my school to put it on the reading list. I found it to be very informative while still being a fun read.
Ah nuts if I had flunked two years of school I could be reading AART in AP Lit.
Not an English teacher, but this is a great idea!
I do feel the need to point out that you only promised to wear a button down when you're sending the videos, not necessarily when answering the questions. So I hope you do something crazy with that! ;D
We love you Hank, you're such a gem ♥️ sending you nerdfighteria love from Greece
I'm a teacher but I teach English as a foreign language in primary school.
So not useful for me but I wish other authors would have done a video like this about the books we discussed back at school
this is gonna be huge, Hank...so happy for you
You cand John have been a fantastic influence in my life- in being wary of social media, appreciating teachers, and mental health. Thank you. Thank you so much
This is a really cool idea and I like it a lot. I am not yet a teacher, but as a human who loves to learn this is a much appreciated thing Hank.
I loved your book so much. It was the first book I'd read in 2019, and very appropriate timing too. I read it during my 6-month social media hiatus and it made me think about lots of things. Thank you. :)
if i were teaching i would try and use this endeavor along with many of John's videos to explore the idea of author intention and the meaning brought to a work by the one who experiences it.
I'm so glad they're teaching this in class I'd go back to school just to study it. Obviously I'm kidding cause I already own it and I hated high school but you know what I mean
this is so great! I remember when I was in school, our school librarian just like...happened to know (or got in contact with, I guess?) a couple of pretty great authors (one was Michael Morpurgo, who wrote War Horse, among other things, and we studied his book Private Peaceful, the other was Eleanor Updale, we studied the first Montmorency book
And they came to our school and we got to chat with them and ask questions and I think Eleanor (I can't remember which of them did it) played some like literary games with us which are intended to help people write stories, and they signed our books! I still have my signed copies of Montmorency and Out of the Ashes (I had TONS of Morpurgo books, and that one was my favourite at the time)
so yay for authors getting involved with schools teaching their books!
like this was all back in....2006-7ish? A while back, and I don't remember much from being at school
We are absolutely using your book with our high school book group and we can't wait!
Not a teacher. Just a college student. I am listening to the book at work and can't wait to hear other people's questions and your answers! 😊
So CEO of complexly is your side gig?
Your so sweet hank! As a new teacher this made me so thrilled that u would like to be involved! Im going to teach 3rd grade nd wish they would understand ur book because I loved it bt thats obviously not a third grade book haha 💚
Just sent this to the current librarian at my old high school. Hope at least one of the teachers there takes this opportunity.
Hank, Hank, slow down!! You just started a new channel! Where are finding the time for all of this? Are you ok?
If Hank isn't doing 100 projects at once the Universe collapses.
Yes. Yes? Yes!
I am a Teacher and, long story short, have been begging to be able to purchase John's Reader's Guide for 'If You Come Softly' from Life's Library, after purchasing 40+ copies for my school. It pains me to say that I would have considered purchasing Hank's book as a class reader, but probably won't now because of the frustration from the lack of support after reaching out to John's staff.
I teach the tiny people (6 year olds) and BY GOD, for me at least, contemporary stuff is SO good. I probably do 50/50 comtemporary and classic literature. I hope my kiddies read your book in 8 years time! that would just warm me up
hank, that is truly awesome. thank you for that.
Write a middle grade book next and I would love to teach it!
This is the coolest, sweetest things
Incredible idea. Such a meaningful educational experience for the students.
I love that you are responding to your readers just like Daniel Quinn, author of Ishmael, did. Which is also a very important book!
I've been graduated from high school for 4 years now but I just emailed this to my old highshool principal who I knew well, as well I sent it to my friend who is now a teacher (not english but I'm hoping he will send it to an english teacher). This is such a cool idea. I hope its a huge hit for you! I would have loved this author, reader interaction as a high school student. Heck, id love it now lol. Cant wait to read your book!"̮
Just got the Dutch paperback from the library in Belgium 😄
And all the nerdfighter English teachers are like "Well NOW I'm going to teach it"
This is such an amazing opportunity! I studied in India so the idea of studying any contemporary literature in English was unheard of, but I always wanted to be able to ask questions to authors and if I was in class and the teacher was like "oh hey the author answered your question" i would be so shook! Its also so nice to see how happy Hank is even by the possibility of his boook being taught. I hope someone decides to teach your book Hank!
“There’s no sex scenes, but people... have sex” I don’t know why, but this feels like the theme of my life 😂 probably not the comment you were looking for hank green
My boyfriend is a high school English teacher I will definitely be telling him about this!
This is awesome!
This is a great idea! I'm a physics teacher from the netherlands, so maybe not in my class, but still...
As a substitute teacher in a more rural part of Georgia, I actually have seen some teachers use contemporary literature in some aspects of their course. I've seen Mosquitoland, Dear Evan Hansen, Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian, etc. Not sure how many of those choices were teacher-led, but there is hope if you would like your book taught in schools!
I would love to use your book for my class's lit circle! I just need to find a copy here in Panama.
this is one hell of a commitment Mr. Green. I don't think I've seen anything quite like it before.
3:37 Hank trying to figure out when he was in school is an inspiration
This video probably caused more teacher to teach this than the other way around
I teach hs math and comp sci... but will send this along to my ELA colleagues! (Half way through the book myself and LOVING it)
Just a non-teacher comment passing through. Mildly surprised that 'teachingaart' was not already taken as an email handle by the art teachers of the gmail user base. Also, I want a comedy of errors involving art emails being sent to the AART email address.
Between two page refreshes 60 seconds apart this video came up. Lovin it.
I gave a copy to my English teacher hopefully he reads it and wants to teach it, fingers crossed!
Congrats on the paperback!
This is just a heads up that the "Teacher Nerdfighters" Facebook group has been talking about this, and it might be a useful streamlined platform for teachers to interact with this project. :)
On a related note (I'm a literature student so apologies in advance for whatever stupid shit I end up writing), do you think the way we teach books risks placing too much emphasis on the figure of the author? In my view, what meaning we get out of a book should, ideally, be taken from the book, not the author. God knows Shakespeare was a prick, but I can't help falling in love with his works every time I read them
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Man, now I can't get Darth Vader going... "Hank, Come over to the dark side" out of my head.
From all English teachers, thank you!!!
You mentioned a followup video. I expect that to have happened by now, but I can't find it.
Yesss bonus video!!
Hank is the Best
Awesome idea. I hope you don't get swamped.
THIS IS SO COOL
I want this book so bad
This is awesome. I teach pre-K but appreciate this idea!
teach aart anyway :p
Hi Hank, I love the way that you (and your brother) engage with....frankly, everybody. But I'm wondering how you think this squares with the concept of 'death of the author?' I'm not an expert on this but I did watch a Lindsay Ellis vid on it. She might argue that your views on your book are no more important than anyone else's. Sorry if this comes off a bit like a dig, it really isn't, I am just curious.
I hope my class can be involved!
sadly i never read a book in class that resonated with me :(
that was partly my fault because of my attitude but mostly i blame the teachers, their choice of books but even more their way of teaching them to me.
wait if the paperback isnt out yet.... then how come i own one?
why tf is this not in my english lit syllabus because i would totally send this to my teacher and get them to teach AART
Stuff like this makes me wish I taught English instead of French lol
Wait....I’ve had the book in paperback since Easter....how?
When published in other countries books come out in paperback often before the US