As many of you know I teach English at a Swedish High School. I am slowly starting to plan out the next academic year and I would love some help from all of you. I need tips on the following types of books:
- Short stories (classic or modern, if the classics are available in the public domain my principal will love you all)
- YA books suitable for girls but also for classroom discussion. These books do need to work for boys too, but the class is mainly filled with girls. Many of these girls are reluctant readers, or have problems with English (remember they are ESL students).
I have some ideas of the books I want to teach but I would LOVE some more ideas.
In other reading news January was a great reading month, February sucked. I had real problems settling down with ONE book. I kept picking books up and then putting them down. Not because they were bad but because I just couldn’t focus. I am hoping March will be better.
I’ve spent the last few days with my smart, caring, beautiful niece “Madicken”. She is 19 months old now and to my joy ADORES reading. Right now her favourites include the books about Pettson and Findus (Indus as she says) and the Max books. She also loves Pippi, even if she just knows the music right now (She loves to dance).
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She loves to dance and read? She sounds like a niece after my own heart :)
What age groups are the children you teach? What kind of discussion do you want to have, on themes, style, or?
I teach 16-18 year olds. I for the short stories I want to have discussions on themes, style and lit history. For the YA books it is primarily language and themes I'm interested in.
And the niece is a dear heart. I love her so much.
Maybe you can use Eagleman's: Sum. It is a collection of very short stories, with a simple, modern, and straight forward language. The theme is life after death. He imagines different scenarios and the nature of God etc. Quite amusing!
Young adult books I could suggest might be Roald Dahl's Boy or Hating Alison Ashley (an Australian book) or even Rebecca Sparrow's A Girl Most Likely. Those are ones my kids enjoyed when they were that age, and the English is common English, something that they would be very familiar with from television. The latter two are most suitable for girls as they deal with high school/young adult girl themes.
Young adult books I could suggest might be Roald Dahl's Boy or Hating Alison Ashley (an Australian book) or even Rebecca Sparrow's A Girl Most Likely. Those are ones my kids enjoyed when they were that age, and the English is common English, something that they would be very familiar with from television. The latter two are most suitable for girls as they deal with high school/young adult girl themes.
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