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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Enough hand-wringing over “the classics”. Fwiw I *love* the classics and have read many on my own time since elementary school and I am now reading annotated versions of books I read a few decades ago. But my love did NOT arise from English class. If anything, English class could have killed it because it was *so boring* discussing these books with classmates who clearly did not give a F.

Let students pick from a variety of books, modern and classic, written by a diverse set of authors about diverse themes. If they don’t enjoy what they are reading, why will they put energy into analyzing it? I do put a hard stop at Harry Potter though - the prose is so poor it makes my brain hurt.[/quote]

I think most of the hand-wringing here is that they’re not being assigned any books at all, classics or otherwise. Not are they really being taught to write well. No spelling, no vocabulary, very little grammar. I honestly have no idea what middle school English is all about. [/quote]

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