May is Get Caught Reading Month. Looking for inspiration for readers young and older? The following Annenberg Learner resources will get you started.
Observe 7th-grade teacher Carol O’Donnell teach her students to make connections between what they read and their own lives. Students examine the social and cultural experiences of the characters, and reflect on their own definitions and experiences of identity in Teaching Multicultural Literature, workshop 1, “Engagement and Dialogue.”
American Passages places literary movements and authors within the context of history and culture. Students study an expanded view of American literary movements, reading a diversity of voices and tracing the continuity among them.
Glimpse the appeal and power of great literature as celebrities, academics, and people who just love to read talk about their fascination with The Epic of Gilgamesh, Popol Vuh, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and more in Invitation to World Literature.
Watch authors Katherine Paterson, Leslie Marmon Silko, and J.K. Rowling discuss literary works that inspired their own writing in the Author Notes, Part III of In Search of the Novel. Scroll to the bottom of this page and click on the VoD.
More resources for Get Caught Reading Month:
Teaching Multicultural Literature: A Workshop for the Middle Grades
The Expanding Canon: Teaching Multicultural Literature in High School
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