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3748718 No.3748718 [Reply] [Original]

Books you wish you were taught in High School

I'll start

>> No.3748725
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>> No.3748739

Depends so much on the teacher. I had one teacher who kinda made me hate literature by reducing it to 'these are the things you do to pass the exam'. What made it worse was that it actually worked, and if you looked at exam results I'm sure he'd seem the best damn teacher in the school.

>> No.3748742

>>3748718
I can't think of many novels I wish were taught... even though Shakespeare was seriously overplayed I think I appreciated studying plays and poetry more, because it felt harder to 'get' them and because there were technical things to discuss. Novels like that one are so immediate it feels kind of redundant to actually study them at a High School level.

>> No.3748749

Infinite Jest

>> No.3748836
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Any real book.

My High school was awful, all but one teacher required us to check out a single book from the school library and write a paper on it while the one teacher made us read six books, and they could only from her own collection. Nearly all of them were murder mysteries, mostly David Baldacci books. I tried to reason with her to let me read some of the typical books that were typically assigned in HS, but she was adamant about forcing the trash she likes to read on us.

>> No.3748851

>>3748836
Holy shit.

>> No.3748881

>>3748749
God is it just the same guy that keeps popping up in threads saying "infinite jest" for any question, and vanishing back into his the internet ether, waiting for a chance to parrot once more his single minded utterance?

>> No.3748905

>>3748881

he's trying to make infinite jest the brown recluse of /lit/

>> No.3748928

>>3748718
We read Flowers for Algernon in high school, I don't know what you're talking about. But then again, in that same high school we never covered Shakespeare besides one play, that play being As You Like It.

>> No.3748939

>>3748836
I'm sure if you had complained about her, she would've been forced to change the curriculum. For the one English assignment that actually required us to read a book in my junior year, the teacher let us pick our own books to do the report on from a previously provided stack. I'm not sure what all the others were, but mine was 1984. My senior year I think we read two books, and in sophomore year I only remember reading Joy Luck Club.

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>> No.3749064

>>3748881
It's like the ultimate Jest. It continues into infinity. An Infinite Jest.

>> No.3749094

I only read the flowers for algernon short story but it was one of the saddest stories I ever read

>> No.3749104

Ethan Frome, which I hated initially but upon giving it a second read it really wasn't as bad as all that.

Still not one I'd own or recommend.

>> No.3749124

>>3748881
Probably the same guy who keeps samefagging about the bible just to fuck with /lit/. And the guy who feels like it is his obligation to make sure we do our daily bible reading by posting verses.

>> No.3749173

>>3749094
This, and that was back in middle school. I later read the novel, and I was not impressed.