NYT: Teenagers Suggest Creative Ways To Link Classic Texts To Today’s World

Modern Links Classic Texts

Teenagers across America responded to a challenge set forth by The New York Times late last year to take something they’d read in class and connect it to the real world. As I’ve read through the 50 suggestions, I have been impressed. Not because teenagers are making such significant connections, but because of how significant those connections are. I am gaining insights that I did not have before just from reading the article.

Making Connections: 50 Teenagers Suggest Creative Ways to Link Classic Texts to the World Today

Over 1,200 students suggested interesting thematic links between recent Times articles and literary, historical and scientific texts and topics like “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” “Walden,” the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Chandrasekhar Limit and the California gold rush.

Click here to search for connections to books you’ll be teaching next year.

 

About the author 

Michelle Boyd Waters, M.Ed.

Michelle taught secondary ELA in public schools for 10 years. She served as an award-winning journalist before transitioning into education and is now Assistant Director of the OU Writing Center and a teacher consultant for the Oklahoma Writing Project. Michelle co-edited the Oklahoma English Journal for five years. She is a PhD candidate in Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum at the University of Oklahoma. She started reThink ELA LLC as a teacher blog in 2012.

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