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Is there something wrong with that? The vocabulary/general diction of those books is pretty good for something that’s theoretically for children.
Though I think that nowadays we should be teaching more verbal expression than written. It matters more nowadays than a hundred years ago, when a lot more depended on the written word. But schools haven’t caught up.
exactly. executives are like “give me the top 3 points in 5 sentences.”
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The technology teacher noticed my HAL 9000 shirt on Halloween and we got into a conversation about his list of movies that his children are required to watch. His goal is to make sure they are culturally literate (i.e. are able to catch references to them).
He also has a list of books they have to read (seemed like it was mostly sci-fi stuff).
FTR, most of my students thought my shirt was either a Ring doorbell or a stoplight. They really could use the cultural literacy…
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I feel you cs! My kid’s class has been reading the Wizard of Oz, out loud, SO SLOWLY, which might be fine except she read that shit like a dozen times in the last few years and is now donesor.
No thanks. I keep getting meetings that should have been emails.
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CS, your “thinking” only works if you separate out the high achievers. Then you have a smaller class of ingelligent kids who you can teach individually.
If you are educating a group of kids (low, mid, high achieving) it is just too complicated. Having one book makes things easier.
We used to have streaming back in Canada for this sort of issue (Normal, Gifted, Enriched) but I have no idea if this still exists.
CS, have you never been in a book club? Discussed a movie with friends? Talked about a book everyone just read on any other context?
There’s a lot of value in having a group of students all read the same book (on their own, at home, but at their leisure) and then discuss it together.
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Reading an entire book out loud together seems like a bit much. Practicing reading out loud is important, but short stories would probably be better.
We did read Pygmalion out loud in AP English, but that’s a play so it worked out all right.
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I love reading books out loud as an adult. And it was fine in high school too-- we did Shakespeare. But I can’t imagine what hell it must be to sit through little kids trying to muscle through a book.
No I’m saying if kids like Harry Potter over some 200 year old paid-by-the-word book, that’s what they should read, since they should read things they find engaging.
I think the English language has changed so much that it might suffice to just show people a copy of Shakespeare to show what it looked like then and if they want to learn it later on in some elective course, they can.
Not really, I almost always want to read some other book. My interests are somewhat obscure so I can only find a handful of people from far away places to discuss, such as this forum since the last book I read was this one:
And they can most certainly read them. Having to do one thing doesn’t prevent them from doing another. And most kids when given the choice of what to read, will choose the easiest, least intellectual, most illustrated option they can find. Even the bright ones. Ask me how I know.
When kids start having control over how they are educated, they will no longer get any education. Because kids are pretty stupid and short-sighted.
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Me just yesterday: CAT CAT IS NOT LITERATURE.
There are only so many hours a day, no time to waste on Great Expectations. :shudder:
There is nothing wrong with illustrated books. There is nothing wrong with easy books. That is your own personal bias on what proper literature should be.
If comics are what they want to read at their age…let them.
Do you know who the best employees are? Probably the ones who find the easiest ways to get things done.