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| Topic | B8 Books & Lit Topic 42 - A Squeeze of the Hand |
| tabiicat42 02/28/17 4:02:14 PM #66: | Oh wow, You had some teachers who were CLASSICS ONLY FOREVER. I'm glad I wasn't with those teachers - no modern novels would have turned me off of classics forever. I'm not gonna lie - I don't remember most of what happened to me during 9th grade, let alone what we read. 10th grade, I was homeschooled. My dad had me read The Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Pirsig, Taming of the Shrew... probably the some other stuff that I don't remember. 11th grade I was in AP Language and Composition. We didn't read anything aside from articles and some poetry. It was purely a writing class. 12 grade is mostly what I remember... Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky 1,000 Acres - Jane Smiley [Book of our choice] Life of Pi was what I read 1984 - Orwell Brave New World - Huxley The Handmaid's Tale - Atwell [another one of our choice] I chose Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. a bunch of poetry that I didn't pay attention to... at the time I didn't enjoy poetry or literature. I was also a theater kid so at that time of year we were prepping for the big musical and I didn't pay attention to much as it was. We also did Midsummer Night's Dream after AP testing. I'm 100% against *only* classics as a future educator, but I do recognize their significance and importance to American culture and whatever is required on curriculum I will teach it... but I definitely want to be able to mix modern lit into it. Edit: I was also a military brat. I went to 3 high schools, if you count homeschooling as a separate entity (which I do) --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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