Is there a book that you wish was a required read for public schools? Or a book you think should be?
Is there a book that you wish was a required read for public schools? Or a book you think should be?
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The Hate You Give
My girlfriend taught that book in her class this year.
Agree!
We’ve been trying to get it in our curriculum but people who havent read it keep calling it controversial. It’s maddening. We can’t get them to read it either… and these are English teachers.
I haven’t read it but the movie was so good. It definitely needs to be in the curriculum!
the beckoners
I had not heard of this book before and had to look it up. I agree with you 100% from the description of the book that this book should be a required read.
The 57 Bus
@Danielle That was on our summer reading list this past year! ?
Tuesday’s with Morrie. Although I probably wouldn’t have appreciated it as much until my mid 20s anyway.
@Brittany I think The Five People You Meet In Heaven would be good to add as well!
The Hate U Give.
A lot of schools have already implemented this one.
The Giver
@Katie My friend and I read the giver while the rest of the class read Holes (because I’d read it 7 times by that point) and I feel like a lot of kids would have been better off if we had read both Holes and the Giver instead of either or!
The book thief
I’m torn because I hated being told what to read. But at the same time as a high school student I needed to be told. Lol. I do wish my school branched out of the classics and did some recent (besides the 1st HP book and A Child Call It). I think they need to offer different genres to catch everyone’s attention.
The Hate U Give and Anger Is A Gift
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. It already is a required read for many schools, but I’m a firm believer it should stay that way.
the hate u give
I’d probably say The Color Purple
The dictionary
Just echoing a lot of other people but I’d say Anne Frank and The Hate U Give.
Sapiens by yuval Noah harari. It’s a must
Teenage Liberation Handbook
We added The Hate U Give and Aristotle and Dante to our summer reading list this past year, along with The 57 Bus and March. Students loved them.
Something nonfiction that has actual historical facts other than most text books.
@Madi like Lies My Teacher Told Me or anything else by James Lowen.
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong – James W. Loewen – Google Books
https://books.google.com/books/about/Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me.html?id=L6UfsolSwm8C&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button
@Madi A People’s History or anything else by Howard Zinn.
A People’s History of the United States: Teaching Edition – Howard Zinn – Google Books
https://books.google.com/books/about/A_People_s_History_of_the_United_States.html?id=DhsiGEoATiMC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button
@Beverly yes!
@Madi lol I stopped to have mercy on y’all. I could go on. Ronald Takaki with A Different Mirror. I read these for fun. Historical Fiction and Alternative History too.
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America (Revised Edition) – Ronald Takaki – Google Books
https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Different_Mirror.html?id=0XSUH8kxFuYC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button
The Phantom Tollbooth
The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy ?
The Hate You Give, The Five People You Meet In Heaven, and The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Night by Elie Wiesel
We had to read Night in 10th grade English class, it was probably the most impactful books I read in school.
Scythe!!
Tweak by Nic Sheff or The Heroin Diaries by Nikki Sixx. While not a more conventional choice, they show the horrors of drug addiction. Kids need this, and the younger the better.
Totally agree.
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas