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In reply to the discussion: Catcher in the Rye dropped from US school curriculum [View all]sadbear
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I'm sure the English Classes will at least read a couple of novels and at least one Shakespeare.
WCGreen
Dec 2012
#1
I read that piece on Friday about the automated burger making machine...
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2012
#116
I, too, didn't understand Catcher in the Rye when I read it at 16. And I was a pretty
SharonAnn
Dec 2012
#99
That is one hallmark of a great work of literature, i.e., that one can "re-read
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#148
It's not just the notion of reading a couple of pieces of fiction here or there.
Skidmore
Dec 2012
#14
How many history classes did you take? How many "history" books did you read?
AnotherMcIntosh
Dec 2012
#22
We were taught History by looking at the great themes that ran through certain ages...
WCGreen
Dec 2012
#51
I have no problem with analyzing these texts. But that used to be done in history/social studies,
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#44
Regardless, reading historical documents in english class takes class time away from reading
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#53
I agree the Constitution et al is crucial – but what are they studying in the Poli Sci class?
snot
Dec 2012
#58
Those things are specifically legal and political documents, they are not literature.
Spider Jerusalem
Dec 2012
#192
They are, indeed, legal in nature, but the choice of words make them, to me, at
WCGreen
Dec 2012
#193
Are you sure it won't still be? Just because it's called "reading" doesn't mean
pnwmom
Dec 2012
#115
Maybe this is more of a "reading across the curriculum" thing. The items here would all fit into
pnwmom
Dec 2012
#111
I just read the English Curriculum for English and it is spelled out very well.
WCGreen
Dec 2012
#43
you 'just' read all 66 pages of the standards (not a curriculum, btw)? why do i doubt that?
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#49
You forgot the 2nd Commandment: Thou shalt diddle thy smartphone incessantly. - n/t
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#83
Definitely, and that could get one life for disobedience of the 2nd Commandment! n/t
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#91
When will they start recommending that we burn books as in the book "Fahrenheit 451"....
OldDem2012
Dec 2012
#18
It's ironic that book is one of the books studied under this English Language Curriculum.
WCGreen
Dec 2012
#48
Couldn't students just pick up a copy of any Gannett paper from today and
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#84
The objective should be to analyse the rhetorical techniques of yellow journalism in a class setting
FarCenter
Dec 2012
#90
To be fair, "Invasive Plant Inventory" is a lot more interesting than you might think
jberryhill
Dec 2012
#28
Yup, but every spring and fall they should be voting the fuckers out that support this horseshit
TheKentuckian
Dec 2012
#38
To Kill a Mockingbird is standard reading in middle schools around the country, but
duffyduff
Dec 2012
#59
MD is a wonderful novel and bears repeated readings. Unfortunately, its length and complexity
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#165
I just went through the list of the Fiction for the high school aged kids and there was a lot of
WCGreen
Dec 2012
#36
The book is titled 'The Catcher in the Rye' and the article gets that wrong...
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2012
#39
"Catcher in the Rye" is an acceptable short-form title in popular parlance, methinks. Not
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#92
It seems like they want to kill all beauty, art, and the human imagination.
sinkingfeeling
Dec 2012
#40
What percent of public HS students have the experience to relate to Holden Caulfield?
FarCenter
Dec 2012
#65
Yeah, but that goes for pretty much every piece of literature they make kids read.
sadbear
Dec 2012
#77
Oh, I'd guess about 99%. But I'm assuming that the prevalence of phonies is
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#95
I imagine many people believe the reading lists should indeed be dumbed down
LanternWaste
Dec 2012
#166
Ha-ha. I get to tell my Faulkner joke. Turns out William sent the galleys of
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#186
Ever since Charles Manson, the Beatles' "Helter Skelter" has been on my
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#98
I'm busy with "Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence"
FarCenter
Dec 2012
#169
OK, you're excused this week. But I will expect it re-read over the holidays and
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#176
i didn't have to read it for school ... chose to read it on my own ... wanted to slap that spoiled
Scout
Dec 2012
#96
OK. I live my life vicariously through the protagonists of novels and histories, I confess. But
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#144
Joyce more overrated than, say, Horatio Alger? More overrated than, oh,
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#175
Technical note: JC and RandJ are 'plays,' not 'novels'. If I were going
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#185
"Midsummer Night's Dream" is an eminently watchable play. I vastly prefer seeing it to
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#191
Long before there was DU, there was 'Catcher in the Rye Underground.' I went
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#104
I didn't read it at school either. And I can just imagine the complaints that classmates would have
JVS
Dec 2012
#136
Ridiculous, uninformed hysteria. There's no such thing as a "US school curriculum"
Bucky
Dec 2012
#72
you're a teacher and you've never heard of common core? no, it's not a curriculum -- but
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#139
Heretical notion here. "Catcher in the Rye" should not be 'taught' in
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#81
Maybe we could find a way to sneak Smedley Butler's "War is a Racket" in to the curriculum...
cascadiance
Dec 2012
#102
Other than saying that Catcher in the Rye has been banned in many schools, can anyone explain why
AnotherMcIntosh
Dec 2012
#117
It's just a lousy whinefest about some overpivileged white kid . . . who suffers
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#127
Both Huck and Holden are willing to throw themselves away to rescue
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#170
Hmm, not sure I can answer why the book is "important." I can tell you that I have read it
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#140
I did bother to go to the site and print out and read these new curriculum standards. Not as bad as
kelliekat44
Dec 2012
#130
I don't give the 42 'fucks' that are in it; I'd teach it anyway. Point of view, irony are crucial to
ancianita
Dec 2012
#147
Everyone should be able to read and understand IRS Publication 17 before they can graduate
FarCenter
Dec 2012
#162
"Facts. What I want are facts. Nothing but facts." Um, that was from
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#183
Teach kids to be slaves to the machine instead of enriching their creative senses.
Roland99
Dec 2012
#182