Today I drove down to San Marcos to talk with a class about The Speed of Dark.  Their professor had come to my Book People event and talked to me, then invited me a little later.  I hadn't been to that campus since I was in graduate school, when my studying-buddy and I drove there from San Antonio--we were looking at research projects.  (Note to ( Read more... )

This really should be called "teaching advanced reading" because that's what it is...but this thread is for discussing curriculum redesign where "literature" is part of middle-school and high school studies.

My idea:  if kids have been enjoying reading fiction and poetry up to now, then you can begin teaching them how to recognize why they like what ( Read more... )