But some also read Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. We all read and watched the play or one or more of the film versions. If the main dish was, say, Hamlet, and the main assignment was an essay, the students decided what else might help them enjoy and benefit most from the meal. When I taught high school English and Creative Writing, I thought of myself as a “Pragamatic Smorgasbordist.” I laid out the banquet and decided which of the dishes were required, but my students got to select what else to put on their plates. There are all kinds of teachers and all kinds of labels for them. Lauren Wolk, author of 2017 Newbery Honor Book Wolf Hollow and the recently published Beyond the Bright Sea, talks about the power of novels in the classroom.
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