Classic Coup is about more than reading books. We're about talking books. Lit is life, evoking global discussions and reminding us of human connections. This year we sent
The Great Gatsby,
Night,
Glass Menagerie,
A Separate Peace and
Romeo and Juliet to high school students in an English class in Quito, Ecuador. Via Skype students in South America discussed
A Separate Peace and
Romeo and Juliet with peers in Nashville, Tennessee. Friendship, love, and marriage made hot topics.
A couple of months later, their teacher, Sherry Coyle, wrote this: "Without the
Romeo and Juliet books you provided for my seniors this year, they would have graduated never having read a Shakespeare play. And...without having read the play, one of my students would have never had the chance to take first place today in a local Shakespeare speech competition." Way to go, Andrea!
Sherry and Andrea Spring 2011
First Book Discussion: Ecuador and Nashville, Fall 2010
