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With Rigor for All: Teaching the Classics to Contemporary Students ReviewImagine this: You're about to teach Madame Bovary to seniors and you're faced with students who complain: "Too many pages, I can't read all that!" Or, "I've never finished a book in my life!" "Too much description; why doesn't he just get to the point?" "I read last night but I can't remember anything today!" What's an English teacher to do? You're ready to throw the book up against the wall, even though it's one of your all time favorite classics. With Rigor for All by Carol Jago addresses these problems and more, as well as provides a rationale for why we should be teaching the classics despite the connecting conflicts. How do we engage students? How do we jump over the hurdles of complicated vocabulary and syntax, antiquated settings, and our students' eternal quest for action, action, action? One of my favorite chapters is entitled "Testing That Teaches" which questions the notion of giving objective tests to assess students' understanding of the material. Jago says objective tests ring the death knell to establishing lifelong lovers of literature. She poses an important question: After reading a wonderful book, how would you like to be asked the names of characters, or to match a character with a personality trait? "I know such a test would severely undermine the pleasure I took from the last book I read, José Saramago's Blindness....I could not with certainty tell you the main characters' names. Does this make me a poor reader..." Jago asks. Instead of giving objective tests, Jago challenges teachers to devise ways of testing which actually teach students more about what they have read. Several examples of creative testing approaches are: * Write about how a character is most like (or unlike) you * Introduce a completely unrelated piece of literature such as a poem and ask students to respond to the novel using it as a model * Write an essay as a form of discovery Another chapter I enjoyed weighs the pros and cons of showing video versions of classic literature during class. You might be as surprised as I was at Jago's take on the matter. But, you'll just have to read the book to find out. Try it, you'll like it!With Rigor for All: Teaching the Classics to Contemporary Students OverviewIn this disarmingly pleasant-to-read book, Carol Jago provides a convincing rationale for teaching the classics to all of your high school students.

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