Follow this link to the ELA Enrichment template. You're welcome to record your work in a notebook or in an online document. Aim to post a comment on this page with a sentence or two about what you've read or how you're doing by Friday. Please contact me (mreynolds@belmont.k12.ma.us) with any questions you have. I look forward to recommending texts, hearing about what you're reading, and sharing ideas!
A free and democratic society must have responsible and critical citizens conscious of the need continuously to examine the world that we inhabit and to try, even though it is more and more an impossible task, to make it more closely resemble the world that we would like to inhabit. And there is no better means of fomenting dissatisfaction with existence than the reading of good literature; no better means of forming critical and independent citizens who will not be manipulated by those who govern them, and who are endowed with a permanent spiritual mobility and a vibrant imagination.
-Mario Vargas Llosa, "Why Literature?" <--full essay linked here
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ReplyDeleteI am currently reading "Our Man in Havana" by Graham Greene set in Cuba. It has a quirky scenario where a vacuum cleaner salesman gets recruited by MI6.
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