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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They aren’t, not really.  Public high school, in AP english lang.  They have literally read zero full books yet.  They had to pick two off a long list, not really classics.  A mix.  But they haven’t even had to red them yet- its March [/quote]

AP Lang is intended to be focused on shorter texts with the purpose to understand the authors purpose in the writing and why they used the stylistic choices they did. Reading the classics would not be very good for this. In AP Lit a lot more classics are read. So far we have read Macbeth, Song of Solomon, Frankenstein, Madea, Oedipus Rex, and our next unit is the choice of any classic book. This is a large public highschool in dc. [/quote]

They read one book in all of honors 11 English- Beowulf.  Honors 9 and 10 had a couple more, but not more than 2-3 books for the whole year and not classics, except a Shakespeare play [/quote]

Yes because it is meant to somewhat mimic what kids learn in AP lang. At least at my school so they are reading less classics and are focused more on short texts[/quote]

I don’t get it, are you defending this poor excuse for public education? [/quote]

As a public school student the education I have gotten from my english classes has been not poor at all. As a freshman we read around 2 books a term. Sophmore year we did about 1 a term but they were much longer and we learned how to write analytical essays. Junior year I took AP lang which teaches you about important things in writing such as syntax, diction, different writing styles/purposes, figuartive language, and more. This though comes at the cost of long texts because it is simply not realistic to read the classics and learn about all of the different writing components. Despite this we still managed to read four books. Now senior year in AP Lit we have read multiple classics, greek tradgedies, modern literature, and shakespeare. If you think the standard for an English class is solely reading the classics then yeah I guess it would be a poor education but the main purpose is to teach students how to read and write like a scholar. Which is what English 3 and AP Lang mainly focus on and then after you are able to do so you can then read the classics and understad and write about them in a more complex manner.[/quote]

A comment defending the quality of your English education that manages to misspell five common words is either depressing or pitch perfect satire.[/quote]

Lmao im a teenager formal diction and perfect spelling is not required when dicking around on DC Urban moms. Obvi i know how to spell when im writing an actual important paper or any assignment in general. But it does not invalidate my point about how English class works. [b]Idk why adults think the classics are the ultimate measure of a good education[/b]. [/quote]

There are a great many of us adults who are happy to see the emphasis of “the classics” lessened in favor of a more diverse selection of texts.  [/quote]

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