You have so many choices for July! And I agree Middle Grade books are so chunky now. Your class is reading much more interesting books than we had in school!!
Well, I didn't pick the books that I'm teaching but they do sound intriguing. I would not teach hard classics as a special ed teacher anyway. I also feel thet most high school students are not ready for much of the canonical texts that are taught in high school. I'm nit saying that those texts don't have value, just that they deal with issues that teenagers are not mature enough or care enough about yet.
You have so many choices for July! And I agree Middle Grade books are so chunky now. Your class is reading much more interesting books than we had in school!!
Well, I didn't pick the books that I'm teaching but they do sound intriguing. I would not teach hard classics as a special ed teacher anyway. I also feel thet most high school students are not ready for much of the canonical texts that are taught in high school. I'm nit saying that those texts don't have value, just that they deal with issues that teenagers are not mature enough or care enough about yet.
Alan Gratz is great
Awesome! I haven't read anything by him before, and I'll be teaching his book next school year. Glad to hear it's something good!