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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In high school in college in the late 1980s in the Midwest, the course titles included:

Western Civilization (known as Western Civ I and II)
American History 
World History 
American Literature 
British Literature 
World Literature 
English Literature

Starting freshman year, we read one Shakespeare play every year. We usually went to the Repertory theatre to see the play performed live.

We read actual novels, instead of edited and sometimes censored versions from anthologies.

I don't remember reading much African American literature except during American lit.

For American lit, we usually started with Hawthorn. We read a lot of Steinbeck and Hemingway.

As a woman, we also didn't read much written by women.

Edgar Allen Poe was my favorite author.[b] I wasn't traumatized by the fact that women authors didn't have much of a presence or voice. [/b]

I really enjoyed the writing of Maya Angelou. I thought of her as a writer of young adult fiction.

When choosing contemporary authors, I read Atwood, Bloom, Hinton. Plenty of contemporary women authors were in the young adult fiction genre. I also read huge historical bodice ripper novels by Rosemary Rogers. One of my favorite contemporary authors at the time was Sidney Sheldon. [/quote]

It isn't a matter of being traumatized, it is a matter of broadening the scope of the pantheon of experiences being offered to high school students. Not everything is a straight white male, so reading experiences from a variety of people, genders and perspectives opens eyes to the broader world we live in. Why is that a bad thing?[/quote]

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