[stylist] What I've been reading

[Chris Kuell]

Bridgit,

All is not lost. Both of my kids have had challenging English classes in 
high school. My daughter is a junior and this year in her honors English 
class she's read To Kill A Mockingbird, The Help, Into the Wild, and right 
now she's reading The Things They Carried. She also had to read two books on 
her own and write analytical papers. She read The Tenderness of Wolves, 
which was an excellent book, and The Saddness of Lemoncake, which I didn't 
read but it has to do with a family of synestesiacs. I  like to read what my 
kids are reading so we can discuss it, and both of my kids are not only 
excellent readers, they are excellent writers and know how to look for the 
deeper meaning in works of literature. Which, although it's a YA novel, is 
where I'dplace the first book in the Hunger Games series. To me, the 
violence was used as a tool to show how both Catness and Peta try hard to 
hold on to their humanity. And the wealth and pagentry of the government was 
used to show how far away from the people of the nation the elite are. A 
message that we Americans should consider very carefully in our own world of 
today.

chris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bridgit Pollpeter" <bpollpeter at hotmail.com>
To: <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 5:44 PM
Subject: [stylist] What I've been reading


>I think Lord of the Flies has been a part of high school curriculums for
> a very long time. I was in high school more than ten years ago and we
> had to read it, and both my parents had to read it back in the 70s.
>
> I think it's inane what types of books are acceptable reading for
> academic curriculums these days. Teens are no longer being taught
> analytical skills or being challenged through literature. When Twilight
> is now acceptable reading for students, I truly question our education
> system. And we wonder why we come no where near to competing with other
> countries these days.
>
> Sincerely,
> Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter
> Read my blog at:
> http://blogs.livewellnebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/
>
> "History is not what happened; history is what was written down."
> The Expected One- Kathleen McGowan
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 04:48:47 -0800
> From: vejas <brlsurfer at gmail.com>
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> Wow! It seems as if the reading curriculum has changed a lot!
> I read Hunger Games last year and, being only in ninth grade, was
> required to read Lord of the Flies.  But I guess you appreciate
> them a little more later, when you're older.
> Vejas
>
>
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