Connections

I have really enjoyed Esperanza Rising so far. What makes the most excited about teaching is literature analysis. It was so fun to get into authentic literature, and practice the things that I will expect my students to do in the future. In class/Flint when roles were mentioned, I was very intrigued. I never had to take roles in literature discussion in middle school, instead my teacher had us keep literary journals. In these journals we could write anything that we thought about while reading - questions, predictions, connections, history. I think this approach is wonderful, because it does not restrain students to one avenue of thought.