{"id":22,"date":"2018-03-27T19:39:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T00:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itslitteaching.wordpress.com\/?p=22"},"modified":"2024-02-22T13:08:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T18:08:15","slug":"implement-a-new-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itslitteaching.com\/implement-a-new-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Implement a New Novel in Your Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I don’t know about you, but our district’s curriculum is old. <\/strong>I graduated high school from the same district in which I currently teach. We are still using the same textbook that I had–and they were already twenty years old then<\/em>! Those books were not going to work for my students, so I had to figure out how to implement a new novel into my high school English classroom.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Luckily, I do work at an alternative school and the head of the district’s English curriculum is a gem. These two things grant me some flexibility. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I emailed her earlier in the year asking if there was any way I could possibly teach something a little more modern with some immediate relevancy. Apparently, others had expressed the same concern, so my curriculum chair sent me some books to look at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How It Went Down<\/a><\/em> by Kekla Magoon was my first read. It was a great book (and I’ve since ordered several copies for my classroom library). But it just wasn’t quite what I was looking for. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I picked up The Hate U Give<\/a><\/em> by Angie Thomas. I had looked at this title several times, but at 444 pages, it’s twice the length of anything I’ve dared to teach to my classroom of reluctant readers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n