re: In 10 years, what will grades 9-12 have to read?

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12th was Brit Lit. We worked chronologically, starting with Beowulf, and keeping on with Canterbury Tales, etc.

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Yeah, that was our text. I still remember the final exam. Our little old mean-as-hell woman teacher told us to study the table of contents...Periods, Authors, Works. It was huge. Our exam was to take 20 pages of paper and rewrite it from memory. Every friggin' piece of lit.

When I went to college at Centenary and took my first lit class the prof kept asking 'and who said ...' And I would chime in 'That was Coleridge.'
After 5 right answers he said 'Zach, how do you know so much about British lit?'
Me: 'My teacher was a sadomasochist.'
Him: 'Well, now you know why she did it.'