The View from Saturday

The View from Saturday

  

by E. L. Konigsburg

Current Events & Pop Culture

Available to teachers only as part of the Teaching The View from Saturday Teacher Pass


Teaching The View from Saturday Teacher Pass includes:

  • Assignments & Activities
  • Reading Quizzes
  • Current Events & Pop Culture articles
  • Discussion & Essay Questions
  • Challenges & Opportunities
  • Related Readings in Literature & History

Sample of Current Events & Pop Culture


The New York Times Remembers E.L. Konigsburg

The Times provides an interesting and extremely warm remembrance of the late E.L. Konigsburg.


Excerpt

Mrs. Konigsburg, who spent a year teaching high school science, was an unabashed information-pusher. Children's books, she once said, are "the key to the accumulated wisdom, wit, gossip, truth, myth, history, philosophy, and recipes for salting potatoes during the past 6,000 years of civilization."