tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post8152118949972028650..comments2024-03-16T16:16:08.511-04:00Comments on The Miss Rumphius Effect: More on Reading and the CanonTriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18350907653629775293noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-50322914549100551522008-08-27T18:29:00.000-04:002008-08-27T18:29:00.000-04:00I hated being forced to read a certain number of p...I hated being forced to read a certain number of pages a day or whatnot. It made it such a chore ... but I guess it's the only way to get a class through a book in time for the multiple choice test.<BR/><BR/>I'm always glad that no teacher tried to make me read Dickens, because I'm sure I would have hated it.<BR/><BR/>By finding his books on my own, many years later, I discovered that I loved Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09492841891625994218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-86577731288664854952008-08-24T14:55:00.000-04:002008-08-24T14:55:00.000-04:00Amen to that (pedagogy, that is). That's exactly w...Amen to that (pedagogy, that is). That's exactly where the author went. We have to do a better job teaching the works. I know there are plenty of creative teachers out there doing an extraordinary jobs with complex and challenging material. The problem is there simply aren't enough of them.Triciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18350907653629775293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-44216165454246587552008-08-24T14:53:00.000-04:002008-08-24T14:53:00.000-04:00I still think we're being presented with a fal...I still think we're being presented with a false dichotomy (canon vs. enjoyment). A large part of the problem--as the article you cite notes--has to do with *how* and *when* works are taught, rather than what works are taught. *Catcher in the Rye* doesn't work with middle schoolers as well as with high schoolers, for example. I think *Romeo & Juliet*, though, can work really well Libbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406720496767981522noreply@blogger.com