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

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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1984 (Orwell)
1984 (Orwell)
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #1) (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #1) (Mark Twain)
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Aeneid (Virgil)
Aeneid (Virgil)
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The Allegory of the Cave (Plato)
The Allegory of the Cave (Plato)
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Animal Farm
Animal Farm
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Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
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Beowulf (Tr. Seamus Heaney)
Beowulf (Tr. Seamus Heaney)
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Canterbury Tales (Coghill Trans.)
Canterbury Tales (Coghill Trans.)
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The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
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A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
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The Crucible (Arthur Miller)
The Crucible (Arthur Miller)
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Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)
Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)
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A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen)
A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen)
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Dubliners (Joyce)
Dubliners (Joyce)
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Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton)
Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton)
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Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
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The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe)
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Farewell to Manzanar (Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston)
Farewell to Manzanar (Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston)
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Flowers for Algernon
Flowers for Algernon
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Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
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Gilgamesh (Tr. Stephen Mitchell)
Gilgamesh (Tr. Stephen Mitchell)
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The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
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Heart of Darkness (Signet)
Heart of Darkness (Signet)
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The House of the Seven Gables (Hawthorne)
The House of the Seven Gables (Hawthorne)
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The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros)
The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros)
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The Iliad
The Iliad
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Inferno (Dante Alighieri)
Inferno (Dante Alighieri)
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Julius Caesar (Shakespeare - Signet)
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare - Signet)
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Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
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MacBeth (Shakespeare)
MacBeth (Shakespeare)
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The Major Sherlock Holmes Stories (Doyle)
The Major Sherlock Holmes Stories (Doyle)
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The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare - Signet)
The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare - Signet)
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare-Signet)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare-Signet)
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Mythology (Hamilton)
Mythology (Hamilton)
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Night (Elie Weisel)
Night (Elie Weisel)
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The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey (Homer)
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Oedipus the King and Antigone (Sophocles)
Oedipus the King and Antigone (Sophocles)
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Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
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