What modern book do you wish was assigned to read in schools and why?
What modern book do you wish was assigned to read in schools and why?
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What modern book do you wish was assigned to read in schools and why?
I wish we had to read something that involved depression and anxiety when I was in high school
It would be hard for me to pick a book since there are so many good ones. However, I wish schools emphasized more on modern books than Shakespeare and authors similar. I loved reading To Kill a Mockingbird and The Great Gatsby but was miserable reading anything older than that since typically the language was harder. I feel like reading such old literature makes younger people feel like reading is hard and unenjoyable. Maybe reading something newer, more exciting or relatable would make students more interested in reading for fun!
Totally agree with that!❤️
I think every child in 7th grade should be forced to read 13 reasons why …. show these kids that even the smallest of negative actions can have a huge inpact in someone elses life … that you don’t really know how anyone else is interpreting things
I may be unpopular in saying this but I really disagree and here’s why….
I didn’t like 13 Reasons Why at all. I understand that Hannah had anxiety and depression but blaming certain people by name that they are the reason for her suicide is just as bad as the bullying in itself. As a teenager a 1000 years ago (lol) I also experienced a lot of awful things. Some of which were way more extreme than what Hannah went through but I never really put the blame on anyone but myself for the actions I took due to them. I’m not saying that Hannah doesn’t have the right to hurt or be pissed but I do think that at the end of the day, she and ONLY she is responsible for not reaching out and getting help before she decided to take her own life. It’s just wrong and selfish to make a cassette tape putting blame on certain people by name to be released after her death when they have no opportunity to make the situation better. Also, I’m not saying that they weren’t cruel or do something truly horrible to her cause some actually did but the reason she is dead is because of her actions and not theirs. Bullying is real and needs to be addressed however I think Jay Asher got it wrong. In a way, he made Hannah a bully as well.
Jellicoe Road. It is a fantastic coming of age story that deals with non traditional family units, grief, understanding and becoming yourself. Highly recommend it.
Speak
We were actually assigned to that in my freshmen year of high school
That’s pretty cool.
Great book did u see the movie hated it
It is not about the books we should read, it is about the ones we shouldn’t read. I get that Shakespear, Miguel de Servantes and many other authors that wrote classics are important; but if the intent is to make kids fall in love with reading, those are just going to kill that. They should make us read something that we enjoy and understand (because honestly, Don Quijote is kinda confusing).
The hate u give by Angie Thomas
YAAAS OMG I WAS GONNA SAY THE SAME THING!
Yes!
Scythe
I was made to read the book thief in school right before it became big and was made into a movie and seemed as if everyone was reading it. It was great that school made me pick up that book. I think books like that are important. It makes history more relatable to younger audiences who tune out when handed a text book. That said I loved Shakespeare and the other classics I was handed and still reach for them. I loved the Sylvia Plath poetry and to kill a mockingbird. I even reached for Shakespeare out of school hours. But I think books like the book thief that have the emotional impact with a hardship as big as ww2 might be the key. Might make students thankful and realise the world is wider. I read a thousand splendid suns recently and wished I’d read something like that in school so that I’d have known school grades and bitching about boys was literally so unimportant compared to the realities these books are based from.
Wonder
Just read this post and fled to see what required reading was for my sons high school this summer. It’s One of us is Lying. I’m pretty impressed. I just read this a few months ago. It’s good
The Hate U Give. Because instead of trying to ban it in school libraries because of its topic it needs to be talked about! And it needs to stop.
EXACTLY!
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen