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I am in the process of taking reading classes needed to maintain my state teaching certification. Each week the teacher is having the students bring a favorite book to class to read from. I am one of very few teachers there not teaching elementary school. Most of the teachers are bringing picture books and so forth. I wanted to bring in Ender's Game, but obviously cannot read the whole thing. Any advice for a good passage to read in under 5 minutes?
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I have no real reason, other than my gut and your 5 minute requirement...I'd recommend the section when Ender is launched into space and the brief fight with Bernard.
How old are these kids?
Maybe something from the first moments of the battle room. Or one of the "extra" practices.
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quote:Originally posted by Earendil18: I have no real reason, other than my gut and your 5 minute requirement...I'd recommend the section when Ender is launched into space and the brief fight with Bernard.
How old are these kids?
Maybe something from the first moments of the battle room. Or one of the "extra" practices.
The "kids" range from 22-60. Its a class for teachers, on how to teach reading.
Thats not a bad one, I'll look at that one before bed tonight. Should be easy enough to find. I have until next Tuesday, so any other ideas are appreciated.
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I would say the part that Earendil said would be great. My first thought was the end of that scene with Graff telling Ender that we're all tools.
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Oh my goodness, my pick would be Valentine's talk with Ender on the lake, and the subsequent scene where he agrees to return to training and where he and Graff drive to Stumpy Point to launch. Those two scenes, IMO, have some of the most beautiful prose ever written in all of fiction. They are so simple and elegant and emotional. They choke me up a little every single time I re-read them.
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I would use Mazer Rockham's I am your enemy speach. For me that passage was the highlight of the book. It should get the classes attention and hopfully make them want to read the book.
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I went with the launch scene. One person came up afterwards to ask where they can find it, but most of the class didn't seem too interested. Though that could just be having to sit through a 3 hour class AFTER teaching all day.
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I teach Ender's Game to High School seniors. Their favorite sections are inevitably the fight with Stilson and the fight with Bonzo. The fight with Stilson is particularly moving because he is so young.
I know this is for a reading class with other teachers but I think I would still stick with something that would appeal to students.
I know how those reading classes are. I am finishing my last one right now (thank goodness). It feels like they just forget the poor ole high school teachers.
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P.S. My student’s also got a huge kick out of the section when Graff tells the boys off on the shuttle to Battle School. When he refers to them as “little dorklings,” they all visibly winced. Then they laughed and made a huge poster board with the word “Dorklings” on it and hung it over our word wall.
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Definetely Rackham's speech. Failing that, maybe one of Ender's speeches to his not-quite-launchies/vets after Dragon Army is formed.
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