[LM_NET] Dewey Decimal numbers and fiction

[Cheryl Youse <cyouse@GMAIL.COM>]

I DO always tell students that really every book has a Dewey number,
but we leave it off in fiction because there are so many fiction
books.  I do NOT call the remaining books the nonfiction books, but
the Dewey books.  Fairy tales and a lot of poetry are fiction too.  I
think it is easier to teach that all books have Dewey numbers than to
try to explain why we call the 'rest of the books' nonfiction when
they do not all fit that definition.  My third graders last year had
no problems with the concept.

-- 
Cheryl Youse, MLS
Media Specialist
Colquitt County High School
cyouse@gmail.com

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