ABSTRACT
The current state of education for many gifted and talented students involves many of them spending the school day in a standard general education classroom. In fact, it is not uncommon for the ability level in a typical classroom to range from conventional special education students upward through those in the gifted range. This situation has led to sometimes vague and nearly always clichéd practices of differentiation. Although ideal in nature, wide-ranging differentiation for the kinds of abilities mentioned above is often a daunting task. Teachers already have to remediate materials, which is difficult enough without having to accelerate and enrich them as well. Differences in interpretations can in and of themselves serve as topics of interest in almost all novels and stories. The fact that books such as Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are controversial can serve as a topic for gifted student to investigate.
