Re: Who wrote Holden Caulfield
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Sun, 01 Nov 1998 15:00:06 +1100
> just my humble opinion, but 1) if a high school english teacher needs to
> try and get sixteen year olds interested in catcher by using green day
> lyrics, there's something very wrong. it's not a 'difficult' book,
Yes, but that's not the point. Jane Austen is not difficult. Dickens is not
difficult. Even Shakespeare isn't that difficult. What *is* difficult is
convincing a bunch of high school kids who would really rather be somewhere
else that taking time out of playing computer games, watching TV and
playing sports that it is worthwhile. I'm not talking about kids who enjoy
reading
or enjoy English class. I'm talking about kids who'd rather do anything but
sit down and read a book. These are the people English teachers are really
teaching to.
I will respectfully ignore your comments re Wuthering Heights (:
Camille
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