Canada: New rules coming to get Canadian literature in schools

[Francis Hult]

The Vancouver Sun

 

New rules coming to get Canadian literature in schools

 

It won't just be teenagers reading Canadian literature this fall when a new curriculum requires B.C. high school English teachers to assign at least one Canadian book per year, says the new chairman of the Writers' Union of Canada.

 

Wayne Grady, a much-published nature writer who lives near Kingston, Ont., says that when a book lands on a course reading list, "it stays in print longer, and so it'll be available in bookstores longer. There are all kinds of spinoff effects."

 

The 1,600-member writers' union rallied behind Vancouver's Jean Baird when she lobbied B.C.'s education ministry to make Canadian books a mandatory part of the English language arts curriculum in Grades 8 to 12. (The Sun reported on the success of her effort July 5.)

 

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http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/arts/story.html?id=e8b7b826-9837-4d9b-9972-73997b23b045

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