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[quote=Anonymous]Jane Eyre - sorry, my mistake, misread "James Joyce and Edgar." But James Joyce is a dead white man and... somewhat harder to read than Charlotte Bronte, so not exactly watering down.

They didn't read the American canon in those grades in 2014 either, but they did + do read it in 10th:

Class X
2014: ENGLISH: American literature, novels, short stories, essays, autobiographies
and poems from the Puritans through the moderns. Authors include Wharton,
Hawthorne, Twain, Thoreau, Melville, Fitzgerald, Morrison and selected nine-
teenth- and twentieth-century poets.

2023: ENGLISH: American literature, novels, novellas, essays, autobiographies and poems
from the Puritans through the moderns. Authors include James Baldwin, Anne
Bradstreet, Willa Cather, W.E.B. DuBois, Frederick Douglass, Benjamin Franklin,
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Toni Morrison, Claudia Rankine, Phyllis
Wheatley Peters and Zitkala-Sa.

It feels to me like they're trying to do a better job of integrating this with their US history curriculum - yes they added DuBois and Douglass and Baldwin but they also added Franklin and Cather and Bradstreet, they're trying to make it less of a "great books" curriculum and more of an "understanding the times" curriculum, which is a perfectly sound approach and hardly "woke."[/quote]

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