'War Stories'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Ooh, meara. You guys pissed off Dante, clearly.
Thank you, Pix! Yeah, I'm seeing that World Lit would have been better as a senior class, but since Cold Kiss is done and I have them as juniors taking it, I'm stuck.
I like The Metamorphosis as a follow-up to The Stranger, so that's a good thing. For theme reasons, maybe I could work in Frankenstein later, too, because both of them work as things I could use symbolically. Thank you again!
Any time!
Just on a side note--that level of reading (Camus/Kafka) is really tough for most 10th/11th graders. Is the character in an Honors or AP class?
Heh. I never read The Stranger, because the kids in higher level French had to read it in French, so they didn't put it in the English classes.
And as Pix said, we had British Lit sophomore year, American junior, and "World" (which included some British) senior year.
Ooh, meara. You guys pissed off Dante, clearly.
Well, it was the second time in four years (my freshman year and senior year) that someone tried to burn down the gym during the school day--I suspect I went to school with Buffy.
We did Kafka in 10th (Honors), and never Camus, although I taught Camus to 12th grade IB students. FWIW. I think a flow from Camus to Kafka would be plausible tho.
We did both in junior year AP but I think it went over most of the students' heads, actually.
I read The Plague by Camus for a world lit class in 11th. Definitely went over my head.
It's on my mind because both are currently on my school's 10th grade syllabus, and even at a college-prep private school there are plenty of kids who aren't ready for that combo at that age. It's one of the things I'm looking at working with my department on this summer.
We did The Stranger and The Trial as part of an existentialism section of my senior year AP English class. Good stuff. Or maybe it was The Metamorphisis and I read The Trial on my own. Satre and No Exit had to wait until college.
Which reminds me of one of my favorite headlines - "Camus, dead? Absurd!"
I think senior year is fine--again, depending on your audience's interest and willingness to do the reading and thinking. I just think 10th is a bit early.
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