• Tenebris Nox@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    Of Mice and Men is a good novel for lower-attaining teens who struggle with reading. It’s very short (5 or so chapters), deals with “adult issues” and is a bit like a “novel-by-numbers” where you can introduce things like setting, theme, characters, symbolism in a pretty straightforward way. One of the problems was that when schools began chasing exam grades in earnest because of accountability, ALL kids started studying the novel including the top end who should be academically stretched by something more challenging.