Toggle navigation
Toggle navigation
Home
DCUM Forums
Nanny Forums
Events
About DCUM
Advertising
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
FAQs and Guidelines
Privacy Policy
Your current identity is: Anonymous
Login
Preview
Subject:
Forum Index
»
The DCUM Book Club
Reply to "Finally reading East of Eden (John Steinbeck)"
Subject:
Emoticons
More smilies
Text Color:
Default
Dark Red
Red
Orange
Brown
Yellow
Green
Olive
Cyan
Blue
Dark Blue
Violet
White
Black
Font:
Very Small
Small
Normal
Big
Giant
Close Marks
[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is interesting to read because Steinbeck was my arch nemesis in HS English classes. Perhaps I should read East of Eden as an adult. I really couldn’t stand any of his books in HS.[/quote] I’m the AP lit PP and I grew up to be an English teacher. I think the big issue is that wayyyyy too many books we assign to high schoolers are not at all age appropriate for them. How many 17-18 year olds truly have the maturity for Toni Morrison or John Steinbeck? Almost none. We assign “classics” before kids are ready for them and then ruin the books for them forever that way. Realistically, adults need to find their way to books like this on their own time when their age, wisdom, perspective and maturity allow them to extract the richness of the stories and the writing. [/quote]
Options
Disable HTML in this message
Disable BB Code in this message
Disable smilies in this message
Review message
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
