Students benefit from relating the material they are learning to their everyday lives. If students can connect with a piece of literature in a way that makes it relevant to them, they are going to be move invested and learn more. “Relate Romeo and Juliet to interracial dating,” or help students to view Hamlet as a teen who can’t decide which road in life is the right one (137).
Being able to connect to the material is often essential for students to connect to the material. And the more connected a student is, the more likely they are to want to learn. I always do a lot better when I can find a way to make literature relate to my life or something happening in my world. Even just relating Lord of the Flies to “LOST” to make an up-to-date connection can make all the difference.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
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