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re: Are Animal Farm and 1984 still required reading in High School?
Posted on 7/20/20 at 4:58 pm to LSUDAN1
Posted on 7/20/20 at 4:58 pm to LSUDAN1
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We read the Hobbit instead.
We read that too. I remember the Hobbit, Animal Farm, Of Mice and Men, East of Eden, and Wuthering Heights. There were more but I graduated 20 years ago and don’t remember.
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Posted on 7/20/20 at 5:08 pm to Gatorbait2008
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Animal Farm was about Nazism so they may still allow that. Just make them skip the chapters where it is exactly like socialism and the kids will learn the lesson.
It was about the Russian revolution and the ussr. Most of the main characters correspond to figures in the Soviet revolution. Napoleon is Stalin and Snowball is Leon Trotsky. The alliance between the animals and the humans is meant to mirror Stalin’s non aggression pact with Hitler.
This post was edited on 7/20/20 at 5:11 pm
Posted on 7/20/20 at 5:10 pm to Red Stick Rambler
Took a freshman English lit class one semester in junior college on Dystopian novels. 5 books on the reading list:
1984
Animal Farm
Brave New World
Lord of the Flies
Clockwork Orange.
I took the class because 1 had already had to read 3 of the 5 in HS Sr. English, so I figured it was an easy A. It was a fun class. But I graduated HS in the 80s, when books were still chiseled into stone tablets.
1984
Animal Farm
Brave New World
Lord of the Flies
Clockwork Orange.
I took the class because 1 had already had to read 3 of the 5 in HS Sr. English, so I figured it was an easy A. It was a fun class. But I graduated HS in the 80s, when books were still chiseled into stone tablets.
Posted on 7/20/20 at 5:18 pm to RogerTheShrubber
I'm reading it now, anyone that doesn't see what is happening today in this story doesn't want to see. It has it all, today's educational system(indoctrination), re-write history, the catchy chants. I'm starting to believe HG Wells time machine might actually exist.
Posted on 7/20/20 at 5:18 pm to Red Stick Rambler
Regardless if it’s required reading both sides will say the other side is the bad side in those books
Posted on 7/20/20 at 5:19 pm to VermilionTiger
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Neither were required reading
Graduated in 2008
Same year. We read animal farm in middle school and high school but never 1984.
Posted on 7/20/20 at 5:21 pm to Red Stick Rambler
1984 was but not AF, this was a few years ago.
Posted on 7/20/20 at 5:26 pm to tigercross
Orwell was a socialist but his views were altered after fighting in the Spanish Civil War. He saw the carnage caused by the infighting amongst the various communist factions.
He also wrote about the hypocrisy of many of the well off British socialist.
Unlike the typical socialist wing nut of today he had quite a bit of life experience and tempered his views based on that experience.
He also wrote about the hypocrisy of many of the well off British socialist.
Unlike the typical socialist wing nut of today he had quite a bit of life experience and tempered his views based on that experience.
Posted on 7/20/20 at 5:30 pm to Red Stick Rambler
Anti-reading list
Posted on 7/20/20 at 5:34 pm to Red Stick Rambler
I had to read some stupid shite called Star Girl and The Outsiders. Also had to do Shakespeare.
Total waste of time.
Total waste of time.
Posted on 7/20/20 at 5:40 pm to lsu1919
Public school in Louisiana 1981-1984 we read:
1984
Animal Farm
Brave New World
Lord of the Flies
Of Mice and Men
The Good Earth
Old Man and the Sea
The Sun Also Rises
The Great Gatsby
Romeo and Juliet
Julius Caesar
Tom Sawyer
1984
Animal Farm
Brave New World
Lord of the Flies
Of Mice and Men
The Good Earth
Old Man and the Sea
The Sun Also Rises
The Great Gatsby
Romeo and Juliet
Julius Caesar
Tom Sawyer
Posted on 7/20/20 at 5:47 pm to NorthEndZone
Did you read 1984 in 1984?
Posted on 7/20/20 at 5:48 pm to NorthEndZone
quote:
1984
Animal Farm
Brave New World
Lord of the Flies
Of Mice and Men
The Good Earth
Old Man and the Sea
The Sun Also Rises
The Great Gatsby
Romeo and Juliet
Julius Caesar
Tom Sawyer
We read most of these in the early 90s too but not 1984. I was an adult before I read that book.
Posted on 7/20/20 at 5:49 pm to jlovel7
quote:Eighth graders are not going to really understand it today. The USSR is gone so the impact is lost.
Animal Farm in 8th grade
Posted on 7/20/20 at 5:50 pm to MimosaRouge
I’d have to ask my English teacher but I think it was in 82 or 83- lol
Posted on 7/20/20 at 5:50 pm to Red Stick Rambler
Used to be but it’s been supplanted by Mao’s Little Red Book and Rules For Radicals
Posted on 7/20/20 at 5:53 pm to Red Stick Rambler
Read them both in 8th grade...but only because my white privilege saw me in a private school in mid-city NOLA...
Posted on 7/20/20 at 5:54 pm to StanSmith
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He also wrote about the hypocrisy of many of the well off British socialist.
Unlike the typical socialist wing nut of today he had quite a bit of life experience and tempered his views based on that experience.
That’s what road to Wigan pier was about. About how the people it would benefit the most are LARGELY against it.
Posted on 7/20/20 at 5:54 pm to JetsetNuggs
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Why read about it when we're living in it
Same can be said about Idiocracy.
Posted on 7/20/20 at 5:56 pm to Red Stick Rambler
1984 should be required reading to be a citizen
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