How do I keep students engaged when reading a novel? That’s a tremendous task for any teacher, but especially a brand new high school teacher. Last year at the beginning of the spring semester in my first year teaching English III, we started reading My Antonia by Willa Cather. Started. I had never read the novel before (a huge error on my part), but I thought I could make it fun and educational on the fly anyway. Fast forward to the first day of reading. I had established the background information on the author and time period in a way that I thought was interesting, so I assumed we would…