I just did a lesson with hs freshmen: we read Hemingway's 'Soldier's Home' together, stopped wherever anyone had a question/ thought and talked it out, linked it to other stories of war and alienation. Chromebooks away, phones in bin at front of class. Handwritten short answers at end. Good times.
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“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”
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