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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."