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“If students do not read the assigned texts, nothing important is happening in your literature classroom - nothing very important to develop your students' reading and interpretive abilities is happening, no matter how many lectures you deliver, vocabulary words your students "learn," elements of fiction students define, quizzes students take, essay test answers students write, or films you show. Nothing important is happening because student development of reading and interpretive abilities requires engaged reading.”

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Author:William Broz
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“Too many people in power think reading is the sum of its parts, so we've got all these kids playing air guitar, if you will, with short passages and questions and multiple-choice answers. These abbreviated bits of reading are not the real thing. Passages lack wholeness and feel like work without purpose. When we give students books, thinking they can transfer their practice or that they'll even want to, we're surprised they don't have the interest or the stamina for it.”

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Book:Book Love: Developing Depth, Stamina, and Passion in Adolescent Readers
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“The clerical work is par for the course. "Keep on file in numerical order" means throw in wastebasket. You'll soon learn the language. "Let it be a challenge to you" means you're stuck with it; "interpersonal relationships" is a fight between kids; "ancillary civic agencies for supportive discipline" means call the cops; "Language Arts Dept." is the English office; "literature based on child's reading level and experiential background" means that's all they've got in the Book Room; "non-academic-minded" is a delinquent; and "It has come to my attention" means you're in trouble.”

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Book:Up the Down Staircase
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“Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.”

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Author:Martha Graham
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“Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And that uniqueness of being human, language, art, culture, our dependency on culture for survival, comes from the combination of traditional biological evolution.”

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Author:Donald Johanson
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“Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.”

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Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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“Know why people run marathons? …Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art, science; space shuttles, Starry Night, intravascular surgery; they all had their roots in our ability to run. Running was the superpower that made us human — which means its a superpower all humans posses.”

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Book:Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen
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“Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.”

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Book:The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Prose and Verse: Complete in One Volume
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“Environment-based education produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math; improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages; and develops skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making.”

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Book:Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
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