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By Blair on October 01st, 2009
A New Assignment: Pick Books You Like
For years Lorrie McNeill loved teaching “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the Harper Lee classic that many Americans regard as a literary rite of passage. But last fall, for the first time in 15 years, Ms. McNeill, 42, did not assign “Mockingbird” — or any novel. Instead she turned over all the decisions about which books to read to the students in her seventh- and eighth-grade English classes
I remember reading “To Kill a Mockingbird” when I was aged about 14 or 15 – I will never forget it. I do believe that it is a “literary rite of passage” but this new idea is, excuse the pun, pretty novel. More…
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