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Odyssey

While reading the Odyssey to a class, one of the students actually said they were really enjoying the story - now... meaning, with me reading, stopping every stanza to summarize, dramatizing the action, etc. The question for today is, how do you get students to do that on their own?

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Elizabeth said…
I was talking to my son about this with Shakespeare. He's trying to read Shakespeare on his own; I told him I wouldn't be able to help him much but we found him a parallel version of Hamlet, with Shakespeare on the left and a modern version on the right. After experiementing to with several pages, he decided to read the modern version first. We talked about how hard it was and I told him that after you have read one or two Shakespear plays, it gets easier, because you get to know the language, start understanding the jokes, etc.

You might ask kids how many of them would be intersted in taking one paragraph and doing what you do with it! Be available to answer questions while they prepare, and let a few kids each day take you place...
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