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[CCBC-Net] Amazed--but not amused
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From: Neil Sklar <rp_mcmurphy>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 08:58:10 -0400
That's a very valid point. I never meant to imply that Cormier is for everyone. If anybody DID mean to imply that, I'm curious to hear from them. In fact, I don't think that any work of art or literature is for everyone. But I do think that as a teacher, I have a responsibility to expose children to a variety of works so that they can come to their own conclusions. When they're not in the classroom, they can read whatever they want.
The amount and degree of discord that the discussion of The Chocolate War has produced seems to me to suggest that it is ideal for use in a classroom. Let the kids have the same sort of discussion. That's education at its best. Neil
Received on Fri 31 Aug 2001 07:58:10 AM CDT
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 08:58:10 -0400
That's a very valid point. I never meant to imply that Cormier is for everyone. If anybody DID mean to imply that, I'm curious to hear from them. In fact, I don't think that any work of art or literature is for everyone. But I do think that as a teacher, I have a responsibility to expose children to a variety of works so that they can come to their own conclusions. When they're not in the classroom, they can read whatever they want.
The amount and degree of discord that the discussion of The Chocolate War has produced seems to me to suggest that it is ideal for use in a classroom. Let the kids have the same sort of discussion. That's education at its best. Neil
Received on Fri 31 Aug 2001 07:58:10 AM CDT
