Most public schools would expel this poor kid for choosing a book that deals with those themes.
Erith Send a noteboard - 29/11/2009 04:34:02 AM
That book should be taught at least in high schools.
for my grade 12 English class? I have to do a seminar on a general theme in the said book.
Have you not seen the posts around here about the poor guy who can't even get Shakespeare approved for jr high plays? No WAY is "Stranger" going to EVER be approved for high school curriculum. There is wayyyyy too much free love and sex, rejection of traditional religion, and open support of loose ideas regarding family structure and marital fidelity. The vast majority of schools won't even teach "Catcher in the Rye" and it's not nearly as inflamatory as SiaSL - it's basically just a bratty kid who runs off for a few days and likes to use the words "goddam" and "fuck" a lot.
Not to mention the fact that as Heinlein novels go, that one pretty much sucks balls.
Yo RAFO. What "challenging reads" do you recommend ...
- 28/11/2009 01:33:19 AM
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Depends on what you can get away with...
- 28/11/2009 01:51:15 AM
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As I Lay Dying is a good call. Think it was about twelfth grade when i read it.
- 28/11/2009 04:10:03 AM
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Class representation of pre-Soviet social classes in Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
- 28/11/2009 04:20:20 AM
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This is what happens when the book board isn't named the book board
- 28/11/2009 11:08:30 AM
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Quit complaining, missy.
- 28/11/2009 02:05:34 PM
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Re: Quit complaining, missy.
- 28/11/2009 07:00:02 PM
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Stranger In A Strange Land
- 28/11/2009 05:29:07 PM
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Most public schools would expel this poor kid for choosing a book that deals with those themes.
- 29/11/2009 04:34:02 AM
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Some questions:
- 29/11/2009 04:48:29 AM
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Carrie?
- 29/11/2009 07:57:30 AM
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Why not? The underlying themes are good - especially for high school.
- 30/11/2009 07:06:05 PM
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