[etni] Fw: re: Students Get New Assignment: Pick Books You Like
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- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:12:06 +0200
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From: laurie ornstein - laurenmadeline@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Students Get New Assignment: Pick Books You Like
Hi All,
This is GREAT! The photo kind of reminds me of my "pajama reading party".
Way to go!
Laurie
Ask wrote:
>The Future of Reading
>Students Get New Assignment: Pick Books You Like
>The New York Times - August 30, 2009
>
>JONESBORO, Ga. — For years Lorrie McNeill loved teaching “To Kill a
Mockingbird,” the Harper Lee classic that many Americans regard as a
literary rite of passage.
>But last fall, for the first time in 15 years, Ms. McNeill, 42, did not
> assign “Mockingbird” — or any novel. Instead she turned over all the
> decisions about which books to read to the students in her seventh- and
> eighth-grade English classes at Jonesboro Middle School in this south
> Atlanta suburb.
>
> To read the whole article, go to -
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/books/30reading.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print
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