As any high school English teacher can attest, the vast majority of today’s young people would prefer to read contemporary (read: modern) literature rather than the classical and traditional works we’re assigning. Regrettably, many of them would rather read The Hunger Games than The Iliad and Twilight rather than Romeo and Juliet. This is neither …
I teach a group of homeschooled 12th graders. This is my second year teaching them, having followed them from 11th to 12th grade. I introduced them to The Lost Tools of Writing Level 1 at the beginning of the 11th grade and we’ve continued the lessons into this second year. I have often encouraged them …
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A friend and father of three recently asked me about books and parenting. I asked if he could remember his own reading habits early in life, and I told him about my own. When I was elementary-school-young, I was an intractable “genre reader.” I liked science-fiction and fantasy only. Occasionally, I would pick up a …
