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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What district are you in that doesn't have mandatory books?  You must not teach AP or maybe even not honors if you don't have to do some standards.  I think you are focusing on the wrong thing.  You should intermingle some classics, not just YA novels that don't require any skill in reading.  The Hate U Give, for instance, is a phenomenal book, and a great topic - but in terms of difficulty or challenge it is severely lacking.  They should have to learn how to conquer a challenging text, written in a different time period.  Only being interested in today and today's specific type of dialogue / writing / vocabulary will not offer any growth.[/quote]

I’m not going point by point but: no. You don’t understand literacy and education. Please don’t tell me how to do my job... [b]just answer the question I asked. [/b][/quote]

DP.  This is an incredibly rude response.  The pp's point about kids needing to be able to handle challenging texts seems valid.  It's fine that you choose not to have any mandatory books.  As a parent of a teen who will pick easy books every time, I see validity in pp's point.  Also, if you come on a forum like this to ask questions, you're going to get opinions about how to do your job if you given details on how you plan to do your job.  I've never seen a thread that only stuck to answering the OP's question.  I'd love to know why you think pp's point isn't valid, based on your understanding of literacy and education.  [/quote]

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