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In training to be an english teacher... my state's book recommendations are a bit worrying to me but I'd like to hear some thoughts.

>Recommended novels
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers — Katherine Boo
• Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury
• Frankenstein — Mary Shelley
• Island: The complete stories (collection of short stories) — Alistair MacLeod
• Journey to the Stone Country — Alex Miller
• Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest — Ken Kesey
• Persepolis: The story of a childhood (graphic novel) — Marjane Satrapi
• Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen
• Schindler’s Ark (also known as Schindler’s List) — Thomas Keneally
• Short stories by Frank O’Connor
• Short stories by Katherine Mansfield
• Swallow the Air — Tara June Winch
• Talking to My Country — Stan Grant
• The Boat (collection of short stories) — Nam Le
• The Cellist of Sarajevo — Steven Galloway
• The Great Gatsby — F Scott Fitzgerald
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society — Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
• The Longest Memory — Fred D’Aguiar
• The Turning (collection of short stories) — Tim Winton
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry — Rachel Joyce
• Wide Sargasso Sea — Jean Rhys
• Year of Wonders — Geraldine Brooks

The actual resource is here
https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/downloads/portal/snr_english_eal_prescribed_texts_list_2019-21.pdf

Am I an asshole for thinking that these books are so entry-level that I'd be wasting the kids' time?

>> No.18831959

>>18831954
It's senior level. Kids range in age from 15-18.

>> No.18831963

>>18831954
How about you stop questioning your superiors and do your fucking job.

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>10 books written by females.

>> No.18831969

>>18831954
make them read mishima. It's just recommendations anyway.

>> No.18831972

>>18831954
No Dickens book? That's weird. No Shakespeare at all?
And if you are and Aussie and is going to put F. Scott Flitzgerald there, put Huck Finn and Moby Dick as well.

>> No.18831974

>>18831954
Make them read Lolita and only have the female students read out loud in class.

>> No.18831977

>>18831954
I enjoyed Frankenstein. The rest I've either not heard of or found boring. Why not break the rules? How old will your students be? Do you really have no liberty with how you teach? That sounds soul crushing.

>> No.18831980

>>18831972
There's shakespeare under 'plays and drama texts' in the doc. I've only copy-pasted the novels section.

>> No.18831991

>>18831980
All right, less weird. But still, no Dickens? I thought Aussies had more of a British education, but this list seems rather American.

>> No.18832832

>>18831954
The fucking point of school is to guide kids through "entry-level" stuff, to give them the basics.
No, you can't assign Joyce and Pound. Just teach them to enjoy reading.

Also, fuck, seriously fuck the retards who call Persepolis a novel. It's a comic, and it's not even fictional, it's not a novel even if you believe in the "graphic novel" bullshit, but a memoir/autobiography.

>> No.18832844

>>18831954
Anon, they are high schoolers, the books are supposed to be entry level. That aside, I can personally vouch for
> Fahrenheit 451
> Frankenstein
> One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
> Pride and Prejudice
> The Great Gatsby
Being appropriate for high school readers.

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