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From: janet_at_janetwong.com
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 12:34:12 -0400
I recently bought two copies (gifts) of a NF football/science/history book that would be great summer reading for high schoolers: NEWTON'S FOOTBALL by former Yale engineering professor Ainissa Ramirez--a "science evangelist" and role model for girls interested in STEM. Lots of interesting facts are embedded throughout: reasons for the shape of the football; the development of the helmet; scientific discussion of concussion-free woodpeckers, etc. (It's written for adults but I think it works well for high school.)
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17262166-newton-s-football
Happy Summer Reading! Janet janet_at_janetwong.com
On Jun 6, 2014, at 2:00 PM, Marc Aronson wrote:
>
> I do believe that as more trade NF is read and assigned in school from the earliest grades up, more students will find authors, subjects, styles of NF that interest them -- even in High School. To my mind, the huge untapped
> opportunities are in math as pleasure reading, computer science, philosophy, theology, physics, engineering, economics: all areas where the subjects are full of potential interest for teenagers, the existing middle school books are too simple and many adult books assume knowledge teenagers do not have. We do not do well with abstract sciences for teenagers -- we
> give them textbooks and adult books even as their brains are ready even eager for abstract thinking.
>
> Those of you who work in or have family members in IB schools know that Theory of Knowledge is mandatory in the diploma program -- I wish every teenager had the chance to try their hand at that thrilling intellectual obstacle course.
>
> As to adult "cross-down" -- once upon a time publishers said adults would not read YA fiction, yet at last count 79% of YA fiction is purchased by adults. So YA NF "cross down" does seem like a market opportunity -- if we can find a way to alert adult readers to what we have on offer. That does happen in public libraries where adults discover our books, but not sure how to expand that.
>
>
> Marc Aronson
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Received on Sun 08 Jun 2014 11:34:30 AM CDT
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 12:34:12 -0400
I recently bought two copies (gifts) of a NF football/science/history book that would be great summer reading for high schoolers: NEWTON'S FOOTBALL by former Yale engineering professor Ainissa Ramirez--a "science evangelist" and role model for girls interested in STEM. Lots of interesting facts are embedded throughout: reasons for the shape of the football; the development of the helmet; scientific discussion of concussion-free woodpeckers, etc. (It's written for adults but I think it works well for high school.)
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17262166-newton-s-football
Happy Summer Reading! Janet janet_at_janetwong.com
On Jun 6, 2014, at 2:00 PM, Marc Aronson wrote:
>
> I do believe that as more trade NF is read and assigned in school from the earliest grades up, more students will find authors, subjects, styles of NF that interest them -- even in High School. To my mind, the huge untapped
> opportunities are in math as pleasure reading, computer science, philosophy, theology, physics, engineering, economics: all areas where the subjects are full of potential interest for teenagers, the existing middle school books are too simple and many adult books assume knowledge teenagers do not have. We do not do well with abstract sciences for teenagers -- we
> give them textbooks and adult books even as their brains are ready even eager for abstract thinking.
>
> Those of you who work in or have family members in IB schools know that Theory of Knowledge is mandatory in the diploma program -- I wish every teenager had the chance to try their hand at that thrilling intellectual obstacle course.
>
> As to adult "cross-down" -- once upon a time publishers said adults would not read YA fiction, yet at last count 79% of YA fiction is purchased by adults. So YA NF "cross down" does seem like a market opportunity -- if we can find a way to alert adult readers to what we have on offer. That does happen in public libraries where adults discover our books, but not sure how to expand that.
>
>
> Marc Aronson
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