Lit Up : One Reporter. Three Schools. Twenty-four Books That Can Change Lives. (CD-Audio)

from palaephata

Lit Up is one of the more enjoyable nonfiction books I have read this year. As a teacher, I appreciated this book for the ways in which it described various classroom techniques and approaches. Denby's narrative begins with a journalistic twist, but slowly sneaks in some educational research alon...

from debnance

We can all agree on this, I think: Our world needs readers. And we are not doing a good job bringing kids to a love for reading. Denby takes on this problem by visiting three tenth grade English classrooms with fervent teachers and sharing highlights of what went on in the classrooms over the cou...

from hardlyhardy

I have long believed literature to be important, but I've never been clear on why it's important. Religions, cultures and even families pass down their wisdom through stories, so maybe that's part of the answer. But still, why should students study "Macbeth" or "Moby-Dick"? What of lasting value ...

from JMlibrarian

The best part of Lit Up are the descriptions of brilliant teaching strategies by high school English lit teachers, both those teaching within the confines of, and those liberated from, Common Core standards. The book describes how these strategies worked (or didn't work) on individual students. A...

from meandmybooks

Denby begins his book with a very traditionalist, "kids-today" attitude - high school students should be reading and analyzing "classic" texts - Shakespeare, Hawthorne, Whitman, etc. - and anything less spells the End of Civilization As We Know It - but as the book progresses he gradually becomes...