Why today’s students need literature
ELA teacher and literacy expert Carol Jago believes that literature helps you to understand the human condition and where your place is in this world.
Words matter
Author Phyllis Naylor talks about how she used very specific language to create the character Judd Travers in Shiloh. ” … a book is only valuable to the extent that it draws an emotion in your reader. So I carefully think about every word before I use it.”
