Who said literature had to be boring?
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This fall, Worcester Academy joined countless schools across the nation in celebration of Teen Read Week 2009 (October 18-24)! Teen Read Week is an initiative by the Young Adult Library Service Association (YALSA) that was started in 1998 to remind teens to spend time reading for pleasure.
The WA English Department took advantage of an Interactive Reading Project spearheaded by Mr. Joseph Pye whose mission was to “inspire students to interpret literature in new and innovative ways.” This undertaking entailed creating a Scratch video inspired by a work read in an English class. Scratch software allows users to design animations, games and art to be shared on the Internet.
A total of 8 eager learners accepted the challenge and each created interactive stories inspired by: Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, Chaucer’s “The Wife of Bath’s Tale,” and Marie de France’s “Guigemar,” “Laustic” and “Les Deux Amanz.”
Follow the link below to see the original animations of: Adrienne Anderson, Julien Angel, Cameron Borriello, Chester Caswell, Sarah Dunn, Geetha Mahendran, Elena Stamatakos, and Surya Viswanathan!
http://scratch.mit.edu/galleries/view/61659

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