Maybe we have even more than one! I love the books
written by Ken Follett and now I’m a great Dan Brown fan as
well. My motto is the longer the book, the better!
The last book I read was The Lost Symbol by
Dan Brown and it ran over 600 pages. The one by Ken Follett,
World Without End, went on for over 1,000 pages!
I’m sure high school students have read books that
they were really enthusiastic about. Obviously they didn’t read
them in English….yet! This however can’t stop them from being
able to talk about the author or the book, in English.
A nice project would be to have them interview
the author they like best. I prefer this dialogue form
so they can have a real conversation between themselves and the
author.
They can start out by asking the author personal
questions, for example about his nationality, education, place
of birth, where he’s living now, his family, etc.
These facts can be obtained with a little help
from internet. They can then ask the author about a certain book
he wrote (when did he write it, what was it about, what period
was the book set in (modern day or was it historical).
The students can tell the author what part of the
book he liked best and what character was his favourite.
The nicest part of this is that the other students
can share their interviews with the class. I like to think that
this can urge them on to reading books by an author that they
perhaps hadn’t considered.
As a class project they can list the names of the
authors chosen (and their books), and see what author had the
most fans among the students.
It would be a good idea if the teacher spoke about
her favourite author!
A Nice Thought:
“My test of a good novel is dreading to
begin the last chapter.”
I can’t leave out what Stephen King said…
“Words have weight”.