This week's library display promoted classics so along with stands filled with Austen and Bronte and Hardy and Dickens, I blew up this article from The Guardian: Teenage opinion: why you should read classic books.
The blurb goes like this: "What could possibly be interesting in a long, tedious text full of difficult language and a repetitive plot? Well, surprisingly, quite a lot...So get over your pride and prejudice about reading them!"
Because some of the students are fearful of classics, I still had to do some encouraging to get the books off the stands and into their hands, but they all enjoyed reading the article and hopefully some walked away knowing what we always knew: that reading a classic is cool!
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