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+100 It's important to read these works for the exposure to the language, depth, as well as history.  The problem also with the "reading choices" is that the teacher chooses the few books the students read.  Students should be reading at least one novel a month if not two, not two per year.  My parents and the other parents never objected to the Odyssey or the Tempest.  What about any Dickens?  Or Mark Twain?  How many MCPS students graduate without ever reading these?[/quote]

Nobody is arguing against reading "classic literature". [/quote]

The point is MCPS has stopped teaching them and dumbed down the curriculum vs. what used to be the standard.[/quote]
DD just read Midsummer Night's Dream in 7th grade last year. She did a different Shakespeare play the year before, but I can't recall which one. They have done Call of the Wild. They do Animal Farm in 8th grade. She is not in a magnet middle school. It is -gasp- a DCC middle school. Where are your kids going to school that they are not reading classic literature?[/quote]

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

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)?

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]
She hasn't done 8th grade yet. On average, she reads two novels a week for pleasure. So, I am not keeping a tally of how many she rads for school. I think there were 4 big ones per year. When her literature circle didn't end up with the one she wanted on certain topics, like WWII, she read both the assigned book, and the one she wanted to read.[/quote]

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