No dark sarcasm in the classroom...

Today, and most days actually, I am thankful for books!  These amazing creations allow us to exit our existence, get to know some new people/things, and live in an alternate reality if only for a little while.  Books are almost like  movies in this way, but with, you know, words.

For the past few months, I've been working with a group of 11th grade special education students.  Their teacher and I worked really hard to try to find books that would be at their reading levels and also hold their interest without insulting them.  It's not such an easy task.  But we hit gold with graphic novels.  Hello highly illustrated text to support struggling readers.  Today I was with this group of kids and they were vigorously discussing one of the books which was awesome sauce in and of itself, but then I realized they were trying to hurry through their discussion so they could get back to READING!!!  True Story!