Reply to Classic Literature Recommendations

Forum Index » Schools and Education General Discussion

Reply to "Classic Literature Recommendations"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love Moby Dick, but I didn't read it when I was 10.

And, really -- Of Mice and Men and Cannery Row for 10-year-olds?! My personal opinion is that there is no right age for reading Steinbeck, but if you must read Steinbeck, at least wait until high school.[/quote]

I read these when I was  just 11 and I loved them. And I was in public school (!)[/quote]

Well, that gets us back to the unanswerable question, which comes up every single time on these threads -- is it a good thing if a kid reads a book and loves it, even though the kid really doesn't understand the first thing about the book? [/quote]

Our whole class read Cannary Row and Of Mice and Men. We understood these books, we studied them. Maybe you didn't experience good teachers and a rigorous education, but I am one of the lucky ones, who did.[/quote]

Your whole class read Cannery Row and Of Mice and Men in fifth grade? And that whole class of fifth-graders understood all about the multiple adult themes in both books? I wasn't there, so I'm not saying it didn't happen, but I don't think that you were a very typical group of twenty-five or so 11-year-olds.[/quote]

+1  how did she explain that Curley’s wife essentially comes across as a prostitute?  Or hoe about when the ranch hands visit a bordello?  There are also numerous curse words in the book that I don't think many parents would be okay with their 5th graders reading in school.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics