Nearly all 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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Nickel Boys is a high interest novel that will help students understand how writers can create tension through flashback and first person narration.
The text is easy to read, but with a complex narrative format that will help students who struggle with texts become more sophisticated readers, while ensuring that students who excel in reading/literacy classes have a thought provoking experience.
The book deals with high interest topics such as social justice, over-policing, and trauma. Students will be able to connect events in the novel to current events issues that have been heavily reported in the news.
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Nickel Boys is a high interest novel that will help students understand how writers can create tension through flashback and first person narration.
The text is easy to read, but with a complex narrative format that will help students who struggle with texts become more sophisticated readers, while ensuring that students who excel in reading/literacy classes have a thought provoking experience.
The book deals with high interest topics such as social justice, over-policing, and trauma. Students will be able to connect events in the novel to current events issues that have been heavily reported in the news.