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Originally Posted by Carl in Tampa
High School reading included:
Dickens - Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, and others
Eliot - Silas Marner
Shakespeare - McBeth, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Various Sonnets
de Maupassant - Many short stories
Freshman College included:
Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales, and others
Anonymous - Beowulf
Orwell - 1984, Animal Farm
Shakespeare - Many Plays, some Sonnets
Huxley - Brave New World
Wolfe - Look Homeward Angel, Of Time and The River
Dante - The Inferno
Selected writings of over a dozen other authors
Orwell was a genius. In 1948 he identified social and political trends that are becoming our way of life before our eyes. Thought Police, Double Speak, and rewriting of history is going on daily.
I don't have a clue what kids read in high school today, but I'm confident that it isn't what I read.
Alas...........
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Ditto In addition The Love Song of Alfred J Prufrock ,The Jilting of Granny Weatherall , Moby Dick, Red Badge of Courage
As to what kids read today> They do not read the classics because it creates trigger warnings and micro-aggressions and because they are too busy learning about cultural diversity and gender studies. All the real important things that will guide them through life