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Modern Classics: Great Books Make Great Movies
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006. Great Books Make Great Movies. I've always been a huge fan of movies based on my favorite y.a. books - and traditionally, the movie's stay true to the book, but make it readily available to a wider audience. Following in the footsteps of widely popular y.a. books-turned-movies 'Harry Potter', 'The Chronicles of Narnia', and 'Stuart Little', 'Charlotte's Web' bring's E.B. White's classic story of a loveable pig to the big screen. Wednesday, December 13, 2006.
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Modern Classics: September 2006
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Sunday, September 24, 2006. Pop Fiction" vs. The Classics. True, some classics are required by school districts, but, increasingly, I see teachers making substitutions. In a time when some of my colleagues are turning away from the classics and assigning pop fiction novels, because they're easier to read and kids like them, this Steinbeck novel led me to reflect on the advantages of "plowing through" a classic work with students. Why wouldn't kids be more interested in "pop fiction"? So, when my juniors ...
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Modern Classics: December 2006
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006. Great Books Make Great Movies. I've always been a huge fan of movies based on my favorite y.a. books - and traditionally, the movie's stay true to the book, but make it readily available to a wider audience. Following in the footsteps of widely popular y.a. books-turned-movies 'Harry Potter', 'The Chronicles of Narnia', and 'Stuart Little', 'Charlotte's Web' bring's E.B. White's classic story of a loveable pig to the big screen. Wednesday, December 13, 2006. As my daughter h...
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Modern Classics: Adults Reading YA Lit
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006. Adults Reading YA Lit. In a recent issue of "The Oregonian", columnist April Henry debuted her new column surrounding the young adult literature genre. As my daughter has grown older, the books I read to her every night have changed. Through her, I'm revisiting some books for teens I loved when I was her age, like Elizabeth George Speare's "The Witch of Blackbird Pond," and discovering contemporary books, such as Margaret Haddix's "Running Out of Time.". Henry is not the fir...
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Modern Classics: Taking YA Lit to New Websites...
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Sunday, October 22, 2006. Taking YA Lit to New Websites. Cathy's Book: If Found Call 650-266-8233. It was only a matter of time before publishers figured out how to meld the the appeal of internet gaming and online social networking with books. Enter. Cathy's Book: If Found Call 650-266-8233 is about a teenage girl whose life goes from difficult to worse when her best friend becomes angry with her and her boyfriend Victor, who may not be the boy he appears to be, breaks up with her. I personally think th...
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Modern Classics: October 2006
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Sunday, October 22, 2006. Taking YA Lit to New Websites. Cathy's Book: If Found Call 650-266-8233. It was only a matter of time before publishers figured out how to meld the the appeal of internet gaming and online social networking with books. Enter. Cathy's Book: If Found Call 650-266-8233 is about a teenage girl whose life goes from difficult to worse when her best friend becomes angry with her and her boyfriend Victor, who may not be the boy he appears to be, breaks up with her. I personally think th...
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Modern Classics: MCTE Fall Conference 2006
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Sunday, October 22, 2006. MCTE Fall Conference 2006. Ealier this month, I had the honor of attending a lecture by Alfie Kohn at the MCTE Fall 2006 conference in Lansing. Hands down, he is one of the most impassioned, intelligent, and interesting speakers I have ever encountered throughout my high school and college career. 1 It gets motivation wrong. 2 It gets pedagogy wrong. 3 It gets evaluation wrong. 4 It gets school reform wrong. 5 It gets improvement wrong. Sunday, October 22, 2006.
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Modern Classics: August 2006
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006. A New Spin on the Old Song and Dance. Young adult literature in today's English classrooms, will teachers still be able to get the basic concepts of classic literature across to their modern-day students? This is the answer I'll try to discover over the course of the coming semester by comparing modern young adult literature to the classics commonly taught in classrooms. The sources for my blog include, but are not limited to, the following:. The New York Times.
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Modern Classics: Graphic Novel Controversy
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006. Even though this article is outside of my blog emphasis, I believe it's worth posting:. Parents Challenge Graphic Novels. When Amy Crump took over as director of the Marshall Public Library in central Missouri two years ago, she decided to build up the library's offerings for young adults by buying the literary world's hot new thing - graphic novels. The two novels touched off what Crump said was. The first challenge of library materials in Marshall's 16-year history, as.
