Technology has changed our relationship to the length of what we expect. Many students are drawn to stories, but technology has made it far easier to access content in small bites. Why you think verse novels have been so popular with your students? And I had this idea: an Orpheus and Eurydice retelling in middle school, and it had to be in verse. I had been working on a prose novel for a couple of years and my mentor encouraged me to take a break and try something else. They seemed less intimidated by the novels’ size and flew through them. I spoke with Kate, a former Grubstreet student and former English teacher to Boston Public Schools middle and high school students, to learn more about the medium and how she stumbled into it.Ĭam: Where’d you get the idea for this approach? The novel’s first-person language is fresh the lovers’ despair, heart-rending and its visual poetry, captivating. The protagonists must learn to love themselves and one another, and to fight for one another. The Song of Us is Kate Fussner’s debut novel in verse, a Middle Grade love story between two seventh-grade girls, mirroring the Greek romantic tragedy of Orpheus and Eurydice. It also happens to be one of literature’s fastest-growing categories, extremely popular with young readers. A “verse novel”, or “novel in verse”, is a novel-length narrative told via poetry.
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