Wonderful review by reluctant reader

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Date: 8/11/00 9:17 pm  (ET)

'J.K. Rowling's Potter Books Have It Right'
by Laura Sessions Stepp

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2188-2000Aug10.html


Thanks for sharing this, Danemead. The last 3 English-Ed related
conferences/seminars I've been to have contained RAVE sessions about
the HP books. Her article lists the many reasons why these books will
in short order be on every junior high reading list.

There are two kinds of people who teach early adolescence: There's a
joke about the first group: A middle school teacher died and went to
Hell--it was three days before she realized that she'd changed locations.

Then there are those like JKR, who remembers exactly what it was like to
be 11-14, to go through the most difficult transition of your life, to
feel all alone. No one seems to like preteens. JKR loves and understands
them. So do the most effective teachers. So do the best parents.

I know which category I'd like to fall in.

Ebony AKA AngieJ (who is at the midpoint of a DYNAMIC two-week intensive
workshop for middle school Language Arts teachers)