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Reply to "Just got disturbing email regarding English class for my rising freshman"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter read a book last year where the plot centered on a high schooler getting sexually assaulted. [/quote] Ugh. Was it Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson?[/quote] yes[/quote] Can you share how your child handled that book? What are your thoughts as a parent?[/quote] She liked it. I don’t really care about the content, but I wish they would read actual literature and classics. [/quote] Yes same. [/quote] Why? They're not English majors. The goal is to get them to read and to think critically. In 9th and 10th grade they're 14 and 15; a books that can get them interested and relate to them is a good choice. The class is English, not the classics. There are a lot of ways to approach it. -Literature Professor. .[/quote] My kid is already hooked on reading. He doesn’t need social justice books to get him to read and think critically, because they discourage any critical thinking. All kids know how to analyze them - according to the party line. It would be good to develop his critical thinking using actually good books, not some flavor of the day books where the only thing they got going for them is some social trendy topic. [/quote]
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