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[quote=Anonymous]I would have picked books I already read to have one fewer class that I had to do work for. (I read — and still read — a ton for fun. Mysteries are my jam, but I like a wider range of contemporary fiction too and always read the Booker and Pulitzer finalists each year, just as a way to get a survey of recent “great” books.) I went to a magnet with a lot of work and making one class much less work would have outweighed all other considerations, just being honest.

Also, I would have hated discussions in a class like this: what if my classmates basically “spoiled” a ton of good books I was otherwise interested in reading? I admittedly read for plot and would likely never read a single book discussed in the class as a result of it.

Also, it sounds like maybe you teach at a school with few students headed to elite colleges, but if that’s wrong... I think depriving your students of real, in depth literary analysis before they head to college is a mistake. No way you get that experience when everyone is reading different texts and you, the teacher, may not have read every book and certainly won’t have read critiques of all of them or even thought about them in depth. [/quote]

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