[LM_NET] SHARE: Engaging High School Students to Read Classics

[Barbara Kennedy <bkennedy57@GMAIL.COM>]

Greetings everyone!

The Scarlett Letter. Jane Eyre. Antigone. Hamlet. Many of these and other
classic novels can be a pretty hard sell to get students to read. The
question for us is: how to persuade kids to read these novels that they see
as far removed from their lives?

Enter video introductions to the classics from a new website:
www.60secondrecap.com

Read the story about its creation here:
http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/10/31/a_novel_approach_to_getting_kids_into_classics/?s_campaign=8315


I've been tempted to re-read some of them myself!

Barbara Kennedy
Student, Salem State College
Salem, MA
bkennedy57@gmail.com

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