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Anonymous Wed Jun 1 23:42:40 2022 No.20459161 [Reply] [Original]

What book would you teach in a high school English class? One that isn't already widely taught

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 23:46:30 2022 No.20459177 >>20459161 maybe some Plato? It's hard because you have to keep in mind they are highschoolers who for the most part do not like to read

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 23:47:53 2022 No.20459179 >>20459177 Do americunts really not study philosophy in highschool?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 23:48:16 2022 No.20459182 >>20459161 Ashtavakra Gita

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 23:49:12 2022 No.20459185 >>20459179 Sad and true

Anonymous Wed Jun 1 23:58:27 2022 No.20459224

Whatever is popular.
If you're a good enough teacher you should should be able to show how themes and structure work with pretty much anything.
I'm pretty sure the only reason kids still have to read Catcher in the Rye is because most teachers are dead inside and they can just read a lesson plan that somebody else wrote in 1972 ensuring that they don't have to think of things themselves.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 23:59:10 2022 No.20459229 >>20459177 It would have to be as easy to read and entertaining as YA but as substantial and thought-provoking as philosophy

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 00:00:26 2022 No.20459232 >>20459229 The problem is that it's an "English" class.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 00:04:21 2022 No.20459250 >>20459161 dubliners

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 00:11:42 2022 No.20459275 >>20459161 Beowulf

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 00:12:41 2022 No.20459280 anything by Milan Kundera would work

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 00:16:30 2022 No.20459295 Diary of a Drug Friend. It's fast paced, fun, but also fantastically well written and insightful. Although given its subject matter and Crowley's (deservedly) poor reputation, you'd probably get complains from parents if they found out

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 00:24:28 2022 No.20459326 The Metamorphosis

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 00:24:44 2022 No.20459328 >>20459179 I was a English major and didn't study a single piece of philosophy through all of high school and college In USA

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 00:25:23 2022 No.20459331 >>20459326 We read The Metamorphosis in HS, as well as The Stranger. The theme of the semester was "Alienation"

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 00:38:34 2022 No.20459384 File: 653 KB, 896x573, 1636817078133.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Lolita

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 01:28:10 2022 No.20459631 >>20459280 Seconding this. The book of laughter and forgetting specifically because its segmented nature would work well with assigned reading structure.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 02:18:06 2022 No.20459868 >>20459384 I dont think OP wants to get fired

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 03:36:29 2022 No.20460189 >>20459179 I did a little back in the day but its mostly Epics we study. anyways, Concept Of The Political would be my answer.

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