CONNECTING AT-RISK KIDS TO THE CLASSICS

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• My handouts
• will be available on my website
• www.getemreading.com
• Please feel free to contact me with any
  questions
• dplumb_at_dundee.k12.mi.us

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WHAT MAKES A WORK A CLASSIC ?

• It addresses universal dilemmas or concerns
• It stands the test of time
• It has a unique beauty and structure literary
  merit that causes it to endure
• (Tighe and Avinger)

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• A classic
• Something that everybody wants to have read and
  nobody wants to read.
• Mark Twain

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THINK OUTSIDE THE ANTHOLOGYSupplement,
supplement, supplement!
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THE STORYS THE THING . . .Focus on the plot
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Read Aloud
THOU SHALT NOT IS SOON FORGOTTEN, BUT ONCE
UPON A TIME LASTS FOREVER. PHILIP PULLMAN
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IF YOURE SMART YOU CAN GET THE JOKEUtilize Pop
Culture
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GENERATION Y -- THE VISUAL MEDIA GENERATIONUse
Videos
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A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDSUse Famous
Artwork
Ophelia by JW Waterhouse
Satan Falls by Gustave Dore
Jim Hawkins fights Israel Hands by NC Wyeth
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RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINESAPPROACH Connect
Stories to Current Events
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HEROES, FAIRIES, GHOSTS, OH MY!Use Folk
Literature
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MUSIC SOOTHES THE SAVAGE BEASTUse Music
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CREATE TEXT SETS/CLUSTERS
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Sample Text Setfor Treasure Island

• Treasure Island Illustrated Classic
• Into the Mountains of the Moon Robert Louis
  Stevenson from Lives of the Writers Comedies,
  Tragedies (and What the Neighbors Thought)
• Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black
  Pearl (Discs One and Two)
• Ghost Ships
• Mermaid Folklore
• N.C. Wyeth artwork
• Pirate Lore
• Pirate Vocabulary
• Sea Songs and Shanties
• Create your own Treasure Map

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TIRED OF THE BOOK REPORT? LET STUDENTS CHOOSE
HOW TO RESPOND

• Text sets
• Predicting
• Persona writing
• Hands-on art projects
• Multimedia assignments
• Reader-Response Journals
• Multigenre research papers
• Letters to or from a character

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DONT BECOME THIS TEACHER
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• Making serious literature fun is blasphemous!
  
• Using alternative texts makes the literature
  too easy and dumbs down the curriculum.
• The original version of a text is the only
  good/right version.
• Teaching literature does not involve thinking
  outside the box.