Like anyone else, young people want things to be easy and fast. They rush through assignments given them by literature teachers—if they read them at all. On the first day of school, the teacher must establish ground rules: Incomplete homework results in a zero grade, and so on. When you have assigned a reading, you must initially check for completion. One effective way to do this that I use in 9th and 10th grades is the graded discussion. Here’s how…..
