[etni] Teens keep reading if books are relevant to their lives
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Teens keep reading if books are relevant to their lives
EastBayRI.com - August 15, 2006
EAST BAY - While formulating a required summer reading plan for her high
school students, Camille Frankel decided to do things differently this year.
"Some summer reading programs drown the kids. I didn't want to do that,"
said Ms. Frankel, head of the English Department at Portsmouth High School.
So instead of picking one or two books for each grade level, she went with
just one title for everyone: Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed: On
(Not) Getting By in America."
"The whole school read the same book," she said. "Different classes and
different levels will be using this book as a jumping-off point for
teachers. They can design a plan to do whatever ? an essay, a project, a
test."
But there was another reason she chose this particular book, in which
journalist Ehrenreich went undercover to see if she could make ends meet by
taking on various unskilled jobs, each paying $6 or $7 an hour. "It's a good
read, it's a quick read, and it's something relevant in their lives right
now," said Ms. Frankel.
(To read the whole article, go to -
http://www.etni.org/news/relevant_books.htm )
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