Re:Unlike most millennials, Norway's are rich
by dragonwriter on Sunday July 15, 2018 @01:51AM
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> Lots of us remember reading e.g. Shakespeare and Faulkner in high school.
Yes, and my mom just last month retired from teachig English in a nothing-special (in ratings terms) high school in a relatively poor area, and was teaching Shakespeare, Donne, and the rest of the traditional canon of classic literature, as well as a small number of more current bits of non-juvenile literature that isn't part of the Eurocentric canon, works from Amy Tan and others (many of which I also remember reading—in college.)
But in any case what makes it challenging or not isn't what books they read, but what the expectations are of what they'll be able to do having read them.
Yes, and my mom just last month retired from teachig English in a nothing-special (in ratings terms) high school in a relatively poor area, and was teaching Shakespeare, Donne, and the rest of the traditional canon of classic literature, as well as a small number of more current bits of non-juvenile literature that isn't part of the Eurocentric canon, works from Amy Tan and others (many of which I also remember reading—in college.)
But in any case what makes it challenging or not isn't what books they read, but what the expectations are of what they'll be able to do having read them.