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A Retired English Teacher Looks at High School Required Reading and Cringes - Page 2

As the new school year approaches, Our retired English teacher looks back at some of the books he has had to teach over the years… and cringes. Not because they are all bad books, mind you; there are some very fine works here. He cringes because he feels there is a stultifying sameness to these selections, as if teachers and administrators are out to impress each other more than they are out to engage young readers. Oh well…
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
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The Ox-Bow Incident (Clark, Walter Van Tilburg)
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Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
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Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare)
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A Rose for Emily (William Faulkner)
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The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne)
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A Separate Peace (John Knowles)
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Anonymous)
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The Story of an Hour (Kate Chopin)
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A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
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