7: My Antonia

I scrounged both schools in my district for enough copies of this to teach to my juniors, and actually ended up buying a few copies myself so I could do it. I'm glad I did. It was nice to have a book written by a woman with a woman character people could like. Plus, after so much of the fiction we read this year that portrayed such dismal views of the U.S., it was nice to have something positive and uplifting.

Again, the plot isn't so much of a focus here, so I think it was also good to push the students to read more analytically. Some enjoyed it, some were bored out of their minds. And so it goes.