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The 10th graders I teach at a charter school in North Philly are in my literacy class because they didn't do well on a 9th grade standardized test. My literacy class is supposed to reinvest these students in reading. My goal, however, goes beyond getting the students to like to read. I want my students to fall in love with the same pieces of literature that are taught in our most successful public and private schools so that when they get to college, they can engage meaningfully in conversations about the American literary canon and demonstrate their higher level thinking skills in reading-intensive classes. I'm trying to move away from this idea of literacy class as remedial English, which is an unfortunate consequence of this academic tracking system we have in place. By engaging students in rigorous instruction using these literary classics, students will come to see themselves as serious readers who can achieve success with the hard books.

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The 10th graders I teach at a charter school in North Philly are in my literacy class because they didn't do well on a 9th grade standardized test. My literacy class is supposed to reinvest these students in reading. My goal, however, goes beyond getting the students to like to read. I want my students to fall in love with the same pieces of literature that are taught in our most successful public and private schools so that when they get to college, they can engage meaningfully in conversations about the American literary canon and demonstrate their higher level thinking skills in reading-intensive classes. I'm trying to move away from this idea of literacy class as remedial English, which is an unfortunate consequence of this academic tracking system we have in place. By engaging students in rigorous instruction using these literary classics, students will come to see themselves as serious readers who can achieve success with the hard books.

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