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Teaching Tough Texts in a World of Twilight

Jo Facer
October 18, 2014

Teaching Tough Texts in a World of Twilight

Jo Facer

October 18, 2014
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  1. LITERATURE IS THE ART OF DISCOVERING SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY ABOUT ORDINARY

    PEOPLE AND SAYING WITH ORDINARY WORDS SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY. — BORIS PASTERNAK
  2. FOR WHOMSOEVER HATH, TO HIM SHALL BE GIVEN, & HE

    SHALL HAVE MORE ABUNDANCE... — MATTHEW 13:12
  3. ...BUT WHOSOEVER HATH NOT, FROM HIM SHALL BE TAKEN AWAY

    EVEN THAT HE HATH — MATTHEW 13:12
  4. 1. Every book will teach you something 2. Books give

    you access to experiences & emotions you have never had 3. Reading makes you smarter
  5. i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my

    heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you ! here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart ! i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
  6. WHAT CAN YOU DO TO ENGAGE THIS STUDENT AS A

    READER & AS A LITERARY CRITIC?