Selecting reading materials for high school students requires a delicate balance between accessibility and quality. Students want accessible stories that deal with problems familiar to their high school experience, while their teachers demand that the stories must possess a high literary quality (or at least a pinch of quality).
“Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience,”
Harper Lee’s famous line in …
Do you remember the gorilla suits? Morgan Freeman and Rita Moreno? The “Last Word” lightbulb? If you were a beginning reader in the ’70s and ’80s, chances are you do. And now PBS and Sesame Workshop have good news for you (and your kids): a full season of The Electric Company is coming back to the air in 2009.
