Yeah, we're going to have students that can't read, don't want to read, just don't read, but what about the students that love to read? The kid (like Taryn) that will read a book while you are teaching about nouns, the kid that will read the entire novel the night you assign the first chapter. In other words... how do we accommodate for students like we were in high school?

Melanie... give the option of a video project. Or maybe they could work with a partner and do a podcast interview with one student as Twain. I agree that powerpoints are boring. I always fell asleep during them.