While much of the subject matter of
Your Place or Mine is seemingly "old hat" (at least when it comes to classroom content), there are some excellent ideas/subjects brought up worth focusing on. Foremost, the aspect of making collaborative and interdepartmental cooperation more within reach. The article suggests utilizing the time saving convenience of giving a learner a picture book to read on their own time, and from the multiple themes of an appropriately selected book, teaching lessons in multiple subjects from the various themes. I feel this intense examination of one book in multiple subject lessons would be a good lesson in itself. This could teach students to examine and re-examine something in every frame of mind possible, extracting all possible ideas from a resource.
Another noteworthy discussion within the article is the relationship between the learner and their local community/environment. The article phrased it perfectly, "...promote the reading of the word and the reading of the world...". Discussing the subject matter of an appropriate picture book can bring understanding to a learner regarding certain local issues, and can even bring empathy to a community.
