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shared by Rhys Daunic on 27 Nov 12 - No Cached

English classes today focus too much on self-expression. “It is rare in a working environment,
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New Journalism could be applied to most student writing. It benefits from intense reporting, immersion in a subject, imaginative scene setting, dialogue and telling details. These are the very skills most English teachers want students to develop. What’s odd is how rarely such literary nonfiction appears on English — or other class — reading lists.
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Narrative nonfiction also provides a bridge between the personal narratives students typically write in elementary school and the essays on external subjects that are more appropriate assignments in high school and beyond.
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Models of narrative nonfiction are everywhere, on programs like “This American Life” and “Radiolab,” in nonfiction books for young adults, like “Sugar Changed the World” (which is about slavery and science in the pursuit of the food additive), and even in graphic nonfiction works, like “Persepolis,”
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Students are a natural (and the future) audience for serious, in-depth reporting.
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- Rhys Daunic on 10 Sep 10
  
  Digital School Solutions should become an organizational member! (full disclosure, I am a member and am on the board ;)
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Digital School Solutions should become an organizational member! (full disclosure, I am a member and am on the board ;) </div>
  
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- Rene Hahn on 13 Sep 10
  
  I agree!
  
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Filmmaker and George Lucas Educational Foundation chairman George Lucas thinks it's time to change "English" class into "Communication" class, where students learn the grammatical rules of graphic arts, film, and music along with English grammar.
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