My “handouts” will be available on my website:

www.getemreading.com

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Please feel free to contact me with any questions:

dplumb@dundee.k12.mi.us

• It addresses universal dilemmas or It addresses universal dilemmas or concernsconcerns

• It stands the test of timeIt stands the test of time

• It has a unique beauty and structure It has a unique beauty and structure [literary merit] that causes it to endure[literary merit] that causes it to endure

(Tighe and Avinger)(Tighe and Avinger)

WHAT MAKES A WORK A WHAT MAKES A WORK A “CLASSIC” “CLASSIC” ??

““A classic: A classic: Something that Something that

everybody wants to everybody wants to have read and nobody have read and nobody

wants to read.” wants to read.”

– – Mark TwainMark Twain

THINK OUTSIDE THE ANTHOLOGY

Supplement, supplement, supplement!

THE STORY’S THE THING . . .

Focus on the plot

Read Aloud

“‘THOU SHALT NOT’ IS SOON FORGOTTEN,

BUT ‘ONCE UPON A TIME’ LASTS FOREVER.”

—PHILIP PULLMAN

IF YOU’RE SMART YOU CAN GET THE JOKE

Utilize Pop Culture

GENERATION Y -- THE VISUAL MEDIA

GENERATION

Use Videos

A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS

Use Famous Artwork

Ophelia by JW WaterhouseSatan Falls by Gustave DoreJim Hawkins fights Israel Hands by NC Wyeth

“RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES”APPROACH

Connect Stories to Current

Events

HEROES, FAIRIES, & GHOSTS, OH MY!

Use Folk Literature

MUSIC SOOTHES THE SAVAGE BEAST

Use Music

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CREATE TEXT SETS/CLUSTERS

Sample Text Setfor Treasure Island

• Treasure Island Illustrated Classic• “Into the Mountains of the Moon: Robert Louis

Stevenson” from Lives of the Writers: Comedies, Tragedies (and What the Neighbors Thought)

• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Discs One and Two)

• Ghost Ships• Mermaid Folklore• N.C. Wyeth artwork• Pirate Lore • Pirate Vocabulary• Sea Songs and Shanties • Create your own Treasure Map

TIRED OF THE BOOK REPORT? LET STUDENTS CHOOSE HOW TO

RESPOND• Text sets• Predicting• Persona writing• Hands-on art projects• Multimedia assignments • Reader-Response Journals• Multigenre research papers• Letters to or from a character

DON’T BECOME

THIS TEACHER …

Making serious literature fun is Making serious literature fun is blasphemous!blasphemous!

Using alternative texts makes the Using alternative texts makes the literature too easy and “dumbs literature too easy and “dumbs down” the down” the curriculum.curriculum.

The original version of a text is The original version of a text is the the only good/right version.only good/right version.

Teaching literature does not Teaching literature does not involve involve thinking outside the thinking outside the box.box.