/lit/ - Literature

Twilight.

I'm not delusional, kids hate reading good literature.

Is there course just vaguely literature, or is it specifically brit lit, american lit, novels, etc?

>>2374379

Gatsby because it is super
Various Shakespeare (hamlet etc)
Some Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale, etc)
Life of Pi

A Song of Ice and Fire.
Why?
Because it's awesome.

>>2374401
It's just general literature, I tried to be vague in the OP. You can focus on a theme if you want to

Wyndham Lewis
GK Chesterton
Evelyn Waugh

I'll make them discontent with society.

>>2374379
The Private Fart Letters
SCUM Manifesto
Time & Free Will
Changing Light at Sandover
Various Spiderman comics

>>2374386

Harry Potter for a similar reason. Although not because kids innately hate good literature, it's just that we try to foist it on them in School. Kids are going to hate whatever is on the curriculum, so by putting stuff like Twilight and Harry Potter in the curriculum, they will learn to hate those, and turn to good literature on their own.

>>2374413
This is year 12, not 8.

I would "teach" Gravity's Rainbow and some Russian lit but really do jack shit cause everyone knows senior year is a fucking joke.

I agree with Great Gatsby
Brave New World
1984
The Fountainhead
Catcher in the Rye
Hamlet
Wuthering Heights
Catch-22

Obviously all depending on skill level and what is read in earlier grades

>>2374439
>The Fountainhead
Why?

>>2374445
Because fuck you its good and on many curriculums

>>2374439
All of those I read freshman sophomore year in a public school in nevada (one of the most educationally underfunded states.) 12th grade should be
>>2374435
>Russian Literature
We started with Crime and Punishment and then went on to read A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich, Poisonwood Bible (entry) followed by Heart of Darkness, The Stranger and then had a choice between 100 years of solitude or Metamorphoses. We chose Metamorphoses. If I would change anything it would be poisonwood bible to things fall apart and maybe include an extra book (nothing too big. Not sure of what though.)

>>2374435

Back in my day we read the classics like Gatsby, Don Quixote and lots of Shakespeare in highschool as well as the Odyssey

You kids nowadays

>>2374467
I think he's saying that your titles are usually read by grade 10. We're talking Senior year.

>>2374467
I read those books when I was twelve, including nearly all of Shakespeare.

Are American schools really this deficient?

>>2374476

Oh that makes sense. Sorry.

Plays:
The Twelfth Night
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Marat/Sade

Poetry:
The Metamorphoses
John Donne, a collection or something
Weight

Novels
The Baron in the Trees
Despair
Shadows on our Skin

Short Stories/Novellas
The Lady with the Little Dog
Miss Lonelyhearts
A Hunger Artist
A Small Good Thing
Sea Oak

Hopefully zombies, mental patients, sex and death get their attention.

>>2374480
>I read those books when I was twelve, including nearly all of Shakespeare.
>nearly all of Shakespeare.
Now you sound retarded.

>>2374492
>Hopefully zombies, mental patients, sex and death get their attention.
Pretty tight thesis. 5 stars.

>>2374496
Why is that particularly difficult? English was my first language, was it not yours?

>>2374512
I'm sure the RSC are on the look out for a savvy young man who read all of Shakespeare at 12.

You may have read, but it was a waste of time you pompous twat, since there was no way you could understand the subject matter.

>>2374512
It's not the fact that it's difficult necessarily. It's more that Shakespeare's entire library of works is fucking huge and it's clearly not true that you nearly went through it all before high school

>>2374522
>>2374521
My mother was an English teacher. She would teach it to my older sister and as a family we would often act out the scenes.

I can't be sure if our collection was complete but we had in our library quite a few of his plays.

Shakespeare is not difficult, people.

>>2374535
As i commented though, you clearly did not do this all in your school curriculum. This doesn't mean American schools are worse, it simply means that you had a shit childhood being paraded around as Banquo by your mum

>>2374542
>>2374535

Alright I think we are derailing from the true topic of the thread. If he says he read dozens of senior level books by the time he was in grade six then there is nothing anyone can do to disprove him. Please stop this silliness


Polite sage

>>2374542
We did Midsummer Night's Dream and Othello around your equivalent of 7th grade.

I am not saying this to impress, only to express surprise.

>>2374552
>polite sage
Do you know what sage does?
Of course not, you're use a trip.

I would specialize my course into something fun cause it's Seniors I'd be dealing with.

For half I would do humor and hit the usual checks, Confederacy of Dunces, Catch 22, maybe Sedaris if I feel I can stomach it.

Then I would have some other genre stuff like a Heinlein novel or two, Snowcrash maybe.

It's really about having fun in the last year.

>>2374553
>Othello
"Ok Anon, you're a black ram and I'm a white ewe. Now tup away!
"No momma no!!!"

>>2374575

It is really more of a statement politely apologizing for saying something off topic.

And the last year of high school in Canada is meant to prepare everyone for university. I would also recommend teaching select sections of the Republic of Plato

>>2374553
>>2374553
>Your equivalent of 7th grade
How did you enjoy being homeschooled while me and my friends were also reading othello and A midsummer's night dream?

>>2374592
The op is talking about American High School, you silly canuck.

>>2374597
But I wasn't home schooled...