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The Classics
Well my boys are almost out of school for the summer and I told them they would have to pick 3 books each and read them for the summer. My uncle told me to tell them to read the "classics"...well he can't remember what they are and I have no idea what the hell he is talking about.
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Robinson Crusoe...and still they gazed, and still the wonder grew...
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Let them choose which ones to read, rather than forcing them to read "classics" or any other type of literature. If the goal is for them to understand how fun reading is, and how it can teach you things and transport you to other worlds, they have to be reading something that catches their individual interest. Maybe that will end up being one of the classics, and maybe it won't.
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To Kill a Mocking Bird
"To live in one land is captivity"
"This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions"
Brad Pitt + Einstein = Dick Cheney
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QuoteI love reading and I haven't yet... but overall, I agree with ethelred. The Hobbit and To Kill A Mockingbird are great books - and I loved My Family and Other Animals at about that age - but they're old enough to make their own decisions in these matters.
If they learn to love reading, they'll eventually WANT to read the classics
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Canadian kids author and former teacher Paul Kropp, has an essential book called 'How to Make Your Kid a Reader For Life'. I have never seen a better organized, more comprehensive yet user-friendly listing of the 'classics' old and new. So outstanding, that when the Literacy Consultant visited the school where I teach and complained in an aside to me how his young daughter seems allergic to books, this was the first title I recommended. See also, anything by Mary Tarasoff for 'alternatives to book reports'---young readers must have the chance to express some sort of personal reaction to inform their comprehension.
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100 Books recommended by the College Board, for "college-bound readers.""Once your reputation is ruined, you can live life quite freely."
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Cue to an appearance made at one of my old schools. Toronto Maple Leaf hockey stars showed up as part of our Literacy Week. A number of parents were so excited that they took the day off, showing up with videocams, packing the gym. Once the players were seated and given a michrophone, a young girl was the first to ask them a question.
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London, Jack The Call of the Wild
...and still they gazed, and still the wonder grew...
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#8 ... too funny.
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ooo. well i was a geeky child (of course as opposed to being a geeky adult). I loved stalky and co by kipling, anything by s e hinton.
Do you like Kipling?
I don´t know, I´ve never kippled before.
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Homer - The Odyssey"Drinking is the joy of the Slav!" -Vladimir I, Prince of Kiev
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories - short stories are sometimes more manageable than novels.I really don't know clouds at all
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Some of the suggestions are great, but please don't force them to read Robinson Crusoe, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Red Badge of Courage, or Gulliver's Travels at their ages.nycfellow: "Scrubb is clearly the voice of authority"
Posted By: VenessaP -- 28-Jan-2010 15:01
Posted By: VenessaP -- 09-Dec-2009 17:01
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