Talking texts with students #2

Chatting about relevant and universal ideas in classroom texts, and how teachers can make novel studies less intimidating to their students.

Jeel Thumar is a Year 12 student at Carine Senior High School in Western Australia.

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What is the best text you've ever studied in school, and why?

I genuinely enjoyed studying Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel in Year 12. I think in order to enjoy studying a book, you have to first enjoy reading it, and I found Station Eleven to be a really easy and interesting read. The speculative fiction genre constructed a world that wasn't too far from ours, which made the story relatable and digestible for a contemporary reader like myself.