/lit/ - Literature

>>1748406
>>1748406
Jodi Piccoult?
really.
is that your choice of have you just been given that?

I'm willing to bet that there's nobody on /lit/ who will admit to reading Picoult.

If you have the chance to teach Flowers for Algernon, you should. Kids like it cause it's weird has sex in it, but it also chokes up some people at the end. I remember loving this book as a kid

>>1748417
>>1748417
i read the 10th circle? or the 9th circle or something, in a car ride in na few hours.

not that bad but i was like 14 when i read it, maybe 15

>For those of you who've never heard of it, the High School Canon is an unofficial list of the most highly-read books in high school.

We're well aware. It's all lit ever seems to talk about sometimes.

>>1748417
I read My Sister's Keeper recently, not that bad in the first 3/4ths aside from stupid, self-helpish dialogue. The plot twist ending, though, RUINS the book.

My local bookstore, a big chain, used to have a whole section devoted to James Patterson. Fast forward to 2010-2011 and now that section is bigger, but it's all Picoult. This broad is at the time to get paid, blow up like the world trade

>>1748436
>blow up like the world trade
Seriously? I know it's been almost 10 years, but that's still in very VERY poor taste.

>>1748421
Been given it. All the interns had to choose what to give to their individual lit circles out of a hat, then we were given a week to read the book, and now we have to come up with a pairing.

It's tough, but then that's probably why they gave it to us. Don't know how this ended up on the district's reading lists, but it did.

If it helps to just ignore the book and focus on themes, those themes are as follows:
Sibling love
Sacrifice
Medical/genetic technology (one sister is a designer baby)
Dealing with leukemia
Medical emancipation and the required litigation
Suing family
etc.

The only thing I could come up with off the top of my head was dealing with someone with severe medical needs (a la Of Mice and Men), but I guess I could work litigation and To Kill a Mockingbird together...still, really tenuous links.

>>1748443
...holy god are you retarded

>>1748428
Totally agreed. Much of the novel isn't quite as bad as you would expect. The characters are shite and the author does little to give them depth, but at least the story moves along at a good pace. But then the ending just goes and makes it all absolutely pointless.

>>1748443
it's a biggie rhyme, you uncultured swine

>>1748450
>it's a biggie rhyme, you uncultured swine

>Don't listen to rap.
>Complain about a rapper flippantly referring to the WTC attacks.
>Uncultured.

I'll give ya a 1/10. Best I can do.

>>1748462
>Idiot poster isn't aware that the Notorious B.I.G. died years before 9/11
Seriously, you're giving me heart failure with all this retarded

[ ] kill people
[ ] burn shit
[x] fuck school

>>1748462
>>1748462
>thinks biggie was referencing 9/11
>he died 1997

fucking hell how motherfucking it's alright i can see why you'd think he was referencing 9/11 can you get?

it was all a dream, i used to read inspire magazine

>>1748474
>>1748474
all dat talk of suicide

OK, so to get this thread somewhat back on topic...

Are there any... less common High School Reading books that you can draw a connection to?

Something that isn't "Of Mice and Men" or "To Kill a Mockingbird"?

>>1748488
Well, if you want to make a connection regarding sisterly bonds, you could use the Poisonwood Bible, but I'm not sure if that'd be good for middle schoolers.

>>1748469
>>1748469
free earl [X]
fuck steve harvey [X]

>>1748474
lmao

>>1748488
Not really. Being in the Canon means that it has to be a commonly-read book in the schools. Here's the list of examples my advisor gave the class:

Huckleberry Finn and The Secret Life of Bees
The Kite Runner and The Diary of Anne Frank
Angela’s Ashes and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
To Kill a Mockingbird and A Time To Kill
The Red Badge of Courage and Cut

This assignment especially sucks since we're all interns, which means we haven't been at this for very long...which means that we're not well-versed in this literature. I've only read half of those books listed in the examples she gave us. Kind of cruel, really.

>>1748493
Hrm... Is there a list of Required Middle School Reading? Because even some of the normal High School stuff might be a little too much for typical middle school kids.

Also, I only suggest avoiding "Of Mice and Men" or "To Kill a Mockingbird" because everybody I knew in high school hated reading those books. It's like teaches don't care that the required reading is usually something that nobody, not even students who do a lot of reading outside of class, wants to read.

>>1748493
Damn, that's a good one. It's been years since I read that, but it's worth looking into. And the reading levels are only a grade apart, which is manageable.

>>1748406
I'm thinking you can shoehorn 1984 in here, but im trying to work out the links...

>>1748520
There's a District Required Reading List, of which most of those books are required (so it's not like the teacher can always just pick and choose based on the class's likes), but those lists can vary greatly from district to district. In theory (and usually in practice), the books of the Canon are those that could be picked up in any district. In addition to some of the novels that I listed, it's also extremely common and usually mandatory to find at least two Shakespearean plays on that list, as well as some Poe, or maybe Thoreau.

>>1748520
Hey now, To Kill A Mockingbird and Of Mice and Men are universally-hailed books! I think most high schoolers just hate the prospect of reading.
And I'm not sure, I know in middle school we read Midsummer Night's Dream in 8th grade and selected short stories in 7th grade. Oh, and Night. The Poisonwood Bible would probably be a bit over middle schoolers' heads, but the suggestion was worth a shot I guess.

>>1748545
My district we read plenty of that in middle school/first year high school.

>Night
After so many times, even horrors of the holocaust feels homogenized.

>Midsummer's Night's Dream
I love that play for personal reasons. Not sure if it's really middle school though

>Little above middle schooler's heads
Depends on how old, but middle schoolers can be fairly apt. You might have to do some summarizing after reading each segment with the class or whatever.

Depends on what year of middle school really, if it's 7th or 8th grade you're set.

I have very fond memories of spending the last month of eighth grade English class putting together a terrible, incoherent Midsummer Night's Dream puppet show

>>1748558
Really? I have fond memories putting on as the 'PEN play' (program for the 'gifted') in elementary school. Uncut, true to form Shakespeare. I remember picking the part of Puck just because it had the most lines.

With no mics and having 600+ people in the auditorium/cafeteria at one time.

Kids from grades 1-6 sat there for 3 hours having no idea what the fuck was going on in a room full of people on stage they couldn't hear dancing around. Much fun was had. Great experience in hindsight.

If we shadows have offended...