More than a third of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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Toni Morrison is the one author whom I teach in my high-school English classes who speaks with equal force to reluctant students and enthusiastic ones, to students completely alienated from school and literature (and, I suspect, from themselves) to students completely engaged. The issues her novels raise--identity, race, gender, culture, and family--are crucial ones for high school students to consider and to discuss. In the past, I have taught The Bluest Eye to my ninth-grade English students and Song of Solomon and Beloved to my eleventh-grade students and have never failed to be amazed at the positive response these novels have engendered in my students.
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Toni Morrison is the one author whom I teach in my high-school English classes who speaks with equal force to reluctant students and enthusiastic ones, to students completely alienated from school and literature (and, I suspect, from themselves) to students completely engaged. The issues her novels raise--identity, race, gender, culture, and family--are crucial ones for high school students to consider and to discuss. In the past, I have taught The Bluest Eye to my ninth-grade English students and Song of Solomon and Beloved to my eleventh-grade students and have never failed to be amazed at the positive response these novels have engendered in my students.