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Information: The Secret Key

Information: The Secret Key. And Why You Are Bored Already. How Many of You Can Name a Picture Book You Love?. I Don’t Mean Like. I Mean Love. How Many of You Can Name a Novel You Love?. How Many of You Can Name a Nonfiction Book You Love?.

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Information: The Secret Key

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  1. Information: The Secret Key And Why You Are Bored Already

  2. How Many of You Can Name a Picture Book You Love?

  3. I Don’t Mean Like

  4. I Mean Love

  5. How Many of You Can Name a Novel You Love?

  6. How Many of You Can Name a Nonfiction Book You Love? • Excluding memoir, biography, cookbooks, and self-help? (and we won’t even mention that misbegotten creature, the textbook – carefully crafted to remove all passion and replace with it utility)

  7. Question One: • How can you encourage young people to love reading books you have no desire to read?

  8. Or, • What Are the Pleasures of Reading Nonfiction?

  9. Because • Before we speak about standards and objectives and strategies and rubrics we have to be honest. • If focusing on nonfiction feels like a loss to you, a chore, a shift away from books you love to books you are required to pretend to like, the game is lost before it begins.

  10. Estimated Shift • From 80-20 Fiction – Nonfiction • To 50-50

  11. Out of One Word, Three Pleasures

  12. “Information”

  13. First Meaning • Records

  14. Names

  15. Stats

  16. Dress Sizes

  17. Presidents in Order

  18. Subway Stops

  19. Lepidoptery

  20. Information as Pleasure Because • You own specific information • You feel a sense of power in having it • You are enlarged • You are capable • You can compete • You have solid knowledge • You can act in the world

  21. Second Meaning:In Formation

  22. Ranking

  23. Organization

  24. Timeline

  25. Game Rules

  26. Social Rules

  27. Cause and Effect

  28. Information as Pleasure Because • You can make sense of the world • You understand how things fit together • There is an aesthetic beauty in getting something exactly right • You have a sense of orderliness and satisfaction • You can be a player – in all senses of the word

  29. Third Meaning:In Formation

  30. Ideas

  31. Inquiries

  32. Insights

  33. Theories

  34. Thinking Is Fun • damental

  35. Wonder, Discovery,

  36. All this is great, but • Aren’t you wondering about the missing word? • The key to reading pleasure? • The treasure of the library? • Your all-time favorite? • What ever happened to….

  37. Story

  38. What Is the Magic of Story? • And how does that relate to Nonfiction?

  39. This Is One Key Dividing Point

  40. The Journey Begins

  41. We Form a Band of Friends

  42. We Have Adventures

  43. We Arrive at a Satisfying End

  44. The Two Great Pleasures of Story: • We Are Taken Out of Ourselves

  45. So We Can Learn More About Ourselves

  46. This Dual Journey • Out to go in • Forget yourself to find yourself • Is the essence of what many people believe reading has to offer

  47. Nonfiction Is Full of Stories

  48. And Yet

  49. By Contrast • What Is the Opposite of Fun Reading? • What Is the Opposite of Pleasure Reading? • What Is the Opposite of Story?

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