Tips for Teachers: You Too Can Capitalize on Student Interest in Twilight and New Moon
Tips for Teachers: You Too Can Capitalize on Student Interest in Twilight and New Moon
Your students have finals coming up soon. They need to be studying non-stop, re-reading and analyzing a semester’s worth of information. Instead, they – along with millions of others nationwide – crashed the New Moon movie opening to the tune of 0 million. Rather than view it as a distraction from assigned reading, try to capitalize on the fact that the author, Stephanie Meyer, is a huge fan of classic lit – and makes it known throughout the series.
For example, the young lovers’ interactions in Twilight, the first in the series, was loosely modeled after the Darcy-Elizabeth dynamic in Pride and Prejudice: Edward, the handsome vampire, falls for the human Bella against his
