I never read The Outsiders in school, and I know it’s part of the Language Arts curriculum now in some schools. My students were reading it today for class, so I decided to join them! The kids really seemed to like it – they were all actually silently reading, which for a class of eighth graders with a substitute is fairly impressive. At first I didn’t think I was going to like it all that much. It’s not the type of thing I usually choose […]