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 Just received the following email:

Hi Ted!

Hope all is well. My name is Evan Dickerson. I took your reader 
response notebook course over the summer. I was the only high school 
English teacher there.

I wanted to share with you some of the work my eleventh-grade students 
have been doing at Nutley High School in Nutley, NJ. We're in a unit 
on evaluating fiction. Our focus questions are "Why are some stories 
considered 'timeless'? What makes a 'classic' piece of fiction?"

To diversify their notebooks, I had students complete a 
sketch-to-stretch entry in which they had to "illustrate the central 
conflict of the story". Both the students and I were amazed by the 
results. They actually found that they thought more deeply about the 
sketches than they ever did while using a traditional box-and-bullets 
strategy.

Thanks for sharing such valuable resources. They are definitely not 
just for elementary students!

The entries you're seeing are from:

"A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury
"Lambs to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl

"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"Obsolete" by Chuck Palahniuk

Be well,
Evan






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