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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 6th grader just finished Animal Farm in school and has read Lord of the Flies as well on her own. She definitely understood them just fine (they aren’t difficult books, in fact the opposite) but didn’t really enjoy them as she doesn’t like things that she seems scary. 
My 4th grader is reading The Hobbit in school which I would argue is a harder book to read (from a reader’s perspective with all of the unusual words and names). He wants to read Lord of the Flies next on his own when he finishes the other book he’s reading and I think he will be fine with it.

For contrast, I recall reading The Hobbit in 6th grade for school and Animal Farm in 8th. Our South African au pair told us that AF is a senior year in HS book in South Africa which shows just how books are considered differently in different parts of the world. [/quote]

Your 6th grader understood the plot of the story but not the main reason the book was written -as political satire and allegory for the Russian revolution. I don’t see the point of reading Animal Farm unless you understand the background. [/quote]

Why do you say that? Of course she understood the reason the book was written and has studied that era in history. She wrote a short essay on the use of propaganda, scare tactics and ignorance in the book as parallel to their use in the rise of communism. She still considered it to be a bit scary and sad, but she’s the type of kid who thinks many things are “scary” simply because they don’t have happy endings. [/quote]

No way am I buying your 6th grader studied the Russian revolution in depth including Trotsky in school. [/quote]

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