Current Events > do any new books deserve to be included in required school reading?

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the newest book to be included as required school reading is To Kill A Mocking Bird (1960)
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I heard people suggest The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

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if 1985 counts as "new"...

Life of Pi is probably the most recent book that lots of Americans read.

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50 Shades of Grey

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Beveren_Rabbit posted...

the newest book to be included as required school reading is To Kill A Mocking Bird (1960)

This is both blatantly untrue and something that varies from state to state, and grade to grade. Also doesn't take into account honors and electives.

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There really shouldn't shouldn't be required reading, at any level beyond "this specific class".

Questionmarktarius posted...

There really shouldn't shouldn't be required reading, at any level beyond "this specific class".

I think it's important to be constantly examining and revising the canon, but no, hard disagree.

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As long as it's not the Great Gatsby.

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ChrisTaka posted...

As long as it's not the Great Gatsby.

I was always irritated that Grapes of Wrath was required reading over Of Mice and Men.

Fucking slow-ass "watch a turtle cross a street" book.

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ASithLord7 posted...

I think it's important to be constantly examining and revising the canon, but no, hard disagree.

Well, "school building" or "school district" levels would be acceptable, I guess.

I think "required reading" is a dumb as shit concept that needs to be done away with. Let people read what they want.

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BLAKUboy posted...

I think "required reading" is a dumb as shit concept that needs to be done away with. Let people read what they want.

A literature class is kinda dependent on everyone in the class reading the same literature, though.

Last Night in Twisted River definitely does.

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Roxborough4Ever posted...

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If we're going that route, the FF9 Brady Guide should be mandatory reading for teaching children the valuable lesson of buyer's remorse.

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Roxborough4Ever posted...

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Lmao, in elementary school I totally used guide books as my extracurricular reading they had us keep track of.

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masterpug53 posted...

If we're going that route, the FF9 Brady Guide should be mandatory reading for teaching children the valuable lesson of buyer's remorse.

...or in a business ethics class

Whatever they do, many schools need to change up their required reading lists because some of those books were just so boring. I had many bad and failing grades because of some of those books. Of course, when the book was actually good, I did great. Are these even a good way to judge someone's grasp on proper English anyway?

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Apostles of Disunion in American history classes.

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It was? Along with 1984, Grapes of Wrath, Frankenstein, Feirnheit 451, The Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, Paradise Lost, The Great Gatsby all of shakespear, all of Twain, All of Poe, Of Mice and Me, Flowers for Algernon, Beowulf, Le Mort De Aurther, most of HG Wells, Tarzan, and Canterberry Tales...for some Britsh Lit and American Lit were the same class in the same year, just broken up in to two semesters each.....pretty much only did book reports.

...oh A Raisin in the Sun, Moby Dick, and The Stand...had to read them too.

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Questionmarktarius posted...

...or in a business ethics class

I had to read 12 angry jurors in it, which seems weird not really anything to do with business.

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these must be only required in some schools. I think the only books I ever HAD to read were

Red Badge of Courage
The Scarlet Letter