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Why not? The underlying themes are good - especially for high school. Erith Send a noteboard - 30/11/2009 07:06:05 PM
for my grade 12 English class? I have to do a seminar on a general theme in the said book.
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What do you consider "challenging?" What have you already covered in your class? Are you looking for a classic novel or soemething contemporary? Are they going to get their knickers in a wad if you choose something controversial? What do YOU like? Is there a particular theme you'd like to address and you need a novel to help support your presentation?

Sorry if it's too many questions. You just asked for kind of broad advice on the topic.

Here's just a few ideas that I'm bouncing off the top of my brain:

"A Tale of Two Cities" - personal sacrifice for a loved one to earn redemption, plight of low classes under aristocracy
"Lord of the Flies" - mob rule, failings of human nature and self-government
"Carrie" - cruelty of human nature, teen angst, personal breaking points, consequences, religious zealotry
"1984" - the danger of intrusive gonvernment, importance of personal privacy, malleablility of the human psyche

That's all I've got at 11:00 at night. It's been a long day.

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Yo RAFO. What "challenging reads" do you recommend ... Velveti - 28/11/2009 01:33:19 AM 649 Views
Depends on what you can get away with... Brian - 28/11/2009 01:51:15 AM 583 Views
As I Lay Dying is a good call. Think it was about twelfth grade when i read it. Panorphaeon - 28/11/2009 04:10:03 AM 390 Views
"My mother is a fish." Craig - 28/11/2009 09:20:45 PM 352 Views
Class representation of pre-Soviet social classes in Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov Mad Cow Bomber - 28/11/2009 04:20:20 AM 589 Views
This is what happens when the book board isn't named the book board Camilla - 28/11/2009 11:08:30 AM 586 Views
Quit complaining, missy. Nebhead - 28/11/2009 02:05:34 PM 399 Views
Re: Quit complaining, missy. Camilla - 28/11/2009 07:00:02 PM 375 Views
One bucket a day for each post they hold? *NM* Floffe - 28/11/2009 10:55:40 PM 170 Views
Something like that. *NM* Camilla - 28/11/2009 10:56:31 PM 164 Views
Stranger In A Strange Land imlad - 28/11/2009 05:29:07 PM 382 Views
Most public schools would expel this poor kid for choosing a book that deals with those themes. Erith - 29/11/2009 04:34:02 AM 385 Views
Some questions: Erith - 29/11/2009 04:48:29 AM 376 Views
Carrie? Ghavrel - 29/11/2009 07:57:30 AM 373 Views
Why not? The underlying themes are good - especially for high school. Erith - 30/11/2009 07:06:05 PM 529 Views
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