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How many novels/plays did she read 6th - 8th grade?  One or two per year doesn't cover the breadth of what used to be and could be taught.  That's the point.

[b]Anyone's child read Hemmingway, Steinbeck, Maya Angelou (not really a classic but a great author), William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald (any work other than The Great Gadsby), Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front)?

[/b]Anyone's child read the following Shakespeare? Really, a whole semester could be devoted to comparing and contrasting works of Shakespeare, even if it was an English elective - Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Julius Ceasar, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest

Many classics could be intertwined with the Social Studies curriculum.  Heck, have students actually read Frederick Douglas when you are discussing him in US History.[/quote]

This looks like my high school English reading list from 1983 (if you add Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse, and subtract Maya Angelou). Why would you want to replicate that for middle-schoolers in Montgomery County in 2018? Probably, if there had been a DCUM in 1983, people would have lamented that the kids today, in the dumbed-down curriculum, were no longer reading multiple Walter Scott novels and an epic poem in blank verse by Matthew Arnold, as my father had to do in his high school English classes in 1950.
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