Language Arts Curriculum

Notes from a teacher about the importance of a great book

I spent last week filling in for a middle school teacher who left four weeks before the end of the school year. I got a heads-up that the 6^th graders were just starting When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead, and the 7^th graders were four chapters into The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, so I quickly re-read the first book (It was buried way down on my kindle),…