Mary Styslinger

English and Literacy Teacher-Researcher-Prof at the University of South Carolina; Reader, Writer, and Author; Wife, Mother, Shopper, Cook, and Dog Lover

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Amazing hour of thinking together! #NCTEchat

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A6 Think about resistant reading and raising our students' critical consciousness when/if teaching the canon #NCTEchat

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A6 1984. The importance of freedom of speech and expression. Amnesty International's "Dreams of Freedom", Toni Morrison's "The Big Box," Maya Angelou's "Caged Bird," Jimmy Santiago Baca's "Oppression," Beyonce's "Freedom" #NCTEchat

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Whose canon is it? Why is one canon taught more frequently than another? #NCTEchat

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@MatthewWinner You should write about this--elementary "classics" #NCTEchats

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l love multigenre! I have students in book clubs create a collaborative mulitigenre multimedia project on their novel. Or I have also had book clubs write a collaborative multigenre comparison/contrast paper on their book club novel and the core canonical text #NCTEchat

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A3 I'm all about book clubs which allow for students to make choices. However, access to text is a huge issue for all of us. I have spent a lot of my own $ buying used novels. How can we work with others to get more copies of novels available? We need more book$! #NCTEchat

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@hsengteach One word. Choice. When I taught Romeo and Juliet, two of my book club choices were questioned: The Fault in Our Stars and Perfect Chemistry, so I simply made them options with parent permission required. AND had other great choices available. #NCTEchat

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@TchrComxAdvoc8r So does Iron Maiden - we need to chat heavy metal🤣
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A2 The Hate U Give, Dear Martin, I am Alfonso Jones, The Day Tajon Got Shot, How it Went Down - all with To Kill a Mockingbird. #NCTEchat

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@susangbarber @LynetteVarrassi So now I am wondering why a text becomes canonical? Craft? #NCTEchat

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@kealyd What constitutes a "canon" today? #NCTEchat