In-Class Reading
10 Mar 2011 1 Comment
in Tiger Mother
We read this Time Magazine article about Tiger Mother in my class last night.
We read it aloud together, and I was afraid it was going to be a struggle–it’s probably a much longer article than most of my English 96 students are used to reading, and the vocabulary is pretty sophisticated. But, we went over some vocabulary before we started, and, turns out, my students were really into it! They were all following along well, and a few even had questions or comments as we were reading! For homework, they are going to type up a response to the article, and I’m interested in hearing what they have to say. I think that Tiger Mother is irresistible because everyone has an opinion. Many of us are parents, but we’ve all been raised by somebody, and we all have opinions on how we were raised. I even recommended Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (the book) to my students. It is easy to read, and it’s not very long, which are important qualities for English 96 readers.
