For this Reader Response, you will practice justifying your choices of text by crafting a Book Rationale for your core text (one of the main components of your final project for this course).

The Core Text is: “The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas

As NCTE states in its position statement “Students Right to Read” :

https://ncte.org/statement/righttoreadguideline/

“One of the foundations of a democratic society is the individual’s right to read, and also the individual’s right to freely choose what they would like to read. This right is based on an assumption that the educated possess judgment and understanding and can be trusted with the determination of their own actions. In effect, the reader is freed from the bonds of chance. The reader is not limited by birth, geographic location, or time, since reading allows meeting people, debating philosophies, and experiencing events far beyond the narrow confines of an individual’s own existence.

In selecting texts to read by young people, English teachers consider the contribution each work may make to the education of the reader, its aesthetic value, its honesty, its readability for a particular group of students, and its appeal to young children and adolescents. English teachers, however, may use different texts for different purposes. The criteria for choosing a text to be read by an entire class are somewhat different from the criteria for choosing texts to be read by small groups.”

For this Reader Response, you will practice justifying your choices of text by crafting a Book Rationale for your core text (one of the main components of your final project for this course). Your rationale should contain the following components:

2. Target Grade-Level and Audience
Hub Lexie website

https://hub.lexile.com/find-a-book/search

7. Potential for Challenge
Common Sense Media website

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/

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