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Hi! I am brand new to this forum.

I have taught middle school chorus for six years. Next year, I will be reducing the number of chorus classes I teach and will be embarking on a new adventure that I am very excited about: 8th Grade Language Arts.

I teach in a high-poverty urban school (very diverse, with our largest population groups being Hispanic and African-American). I am looking ahead to next year and am trying to figure out how I am going to facilitate novel reading (we are supposed to read two during the course of the year, while also focusing a tremendous amount of time on reading). One of the novels must have themes related to the Holocaust.

I have been told that I cannot ask my students to purchase books (I wouldn't do that with my population anyway) and that we do not have enough to check the novels out to our students (we only have class sets). So - all reading will have to be completed in class. I have heard different schools of thought among ...See More
Sara On 3/02/14, pearske wrote: > Hi! I am brand new to this forum.

I can get back with some more novel suggestions - I need to recheck some titles but things like Number The Stars and The Devil's Arithmetic are coming to mind as possible Holocaust books and there's another - Stones for Water?

I use tapes/CDs - there's a place/sit...See More
Mar 10, 2014
Debbie On 3/10/14, Sara wrote: > On 3/02/14, pearske wrote: >> Hi! I am brand new to this forum. > > I can get back with some more novel suggestions - I need to > recheck some titles but things like Number The Stars and The > Devil's Arithmetic are coming to mind as possible Holocaust > books and there's another - Stones for Water?...See More
May 31, 2014


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