My students need their own copies of The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, so they can annotate directly in their books.
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My Students
Can you imagine reading only for comprehension? You'd miss out on allegory in The Lord of the Flies, symbolism in The Catcher in the Rye, the themes of Macbeth!
My 11th grade class is a small class.
This is because we are comprised solely of English learners. These students are grouped together so that I can provide specialized instruction around the core standards as well as language acquisition.
Some of these students have been in America their entire lives, others are recent newcomers. Learning literature in a second language can be a challenge, so we spend a lot of time on literacy development, developing vocabulary, labeling structural patterns, identifying theses, etc. Our course is designed to immerse ourselves in complex texts, taking the time to break them down into digestible parts, working to build those pieces back together to create meaning out of the whole. As the year progresses, my students develop the perseverance and determination to tackle these texts more and more, moving beyond comprehension to analysis as well.
My Project
Teaching reading in a public school setting means my students are assigned copies of our books that are returned when they finish reading them for next year's students. In other words, they aren't allowed to mark up the texts. Yet research shows that students who engage with texts comprehend them better. Strategies like the Levels of Close Reading require students to annotate the text in order to help them make meaning. Paraphrasing. Explicating. Analyzing. How can we employ these strategies effectively with books in which we cannot write? I am requesting 25 copies of our class play, The Crucible for my students so they can interact with the text by writing in directly on the pages of the play.
Having a set of books that each of my students can own would allow them to annotate the text as necessary to comprehend what they are reading, as well as analyze it.
They would have access to deeper levels of meaning and practice with strategies they can use for further reading development. Being able to annotate the text will help them develop the strategies of strong readers.
More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households
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