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[quote=Anonymous]My guess is that they themselves worried about the same thing, but they had developed the course over a long period of time, made some mistakes, some corrections honed the craft. It probably kept them up at night what wasn’t in the course, and they probably argued about it until one of them retired. In the end, they 
gave you a class that you remembered still to this day, taught you how much more there was to know and how much deeper you could dive if you wanted to. I also went to a school with those kinds of teachers who deeply loved both the material and the students and I am grateful to them to this day. It opened my eyes to how big and deep the world was and also made me a kinder, more generous and happier person. If you teach a book like Roll of Thunder for 40 years, it becomes a part of you, gets into your cells, and when you give it to others, it (and you) lives on long after you are gone. What a lovely gift to the world. I am glad you have it.

quote=Anonymous]I will say it was actually a fantastic class, the best English teacher in the school and the best history teacher in the school (who had sort of a bromance thing going, they'd both been there forever) taught it as a double-period.

But the books often seemed disconnected from the history - if you read both Huck Finn and Moby-Dick in their entirety in a yearlong course (and read them closely enough to appreciate the masterpieces they both are) you're going to have to go by some other eras awfully quickly. So in retrospect I wish they'd picked books/readings that lined up better and filled in more detail, then offered a separate semester English course with Great American Literature We Didn't Get To In The Combined One.[/quote][/quote]

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