Comments on: Required And Allowed Reading http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2006/04/required-and-allowed-reading/ Challenge The Status Quo Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:19:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: merri http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2006/04/required-and-allowed-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-248 merri Sat, 29 Apr 2006 03:05:21 +0000 http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2006/04/required-and-allowed-reading/#comment-248 I love Tony Early's "Jim, The Boy". Beautifully written in a clean, accessible prose. I saw it in a Barnes and Noble as summer reading for schools in North Carolina. Wish the North would pick up on it. I love Tony Early’s “Jim, The Boy”. Beautifully written in a clean, accessible prose. I saw it in a Barnes and Noble as summer reading for schools in North Carolina. Wish the North would pick up on it.

]]> By: Todd http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2006/04/required-and-allowed-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-214 Todd Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:06:33 +0000 http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2006/04/required-and-allowed-reading/#comment-214 Jane Eyre as required reading, first off, frightens me. For it to be required reading of freshmen, even more so. I'm not sure I would have gotten anything out of that book reading it at the ripe old age of 13 or 14. What a sad comment that the same literature we read in high school is being read today. Is that to suggest that nothing anywhere near as good and worthy has been produced in the last 15 years? Eck! I read Jane Eyre in English 4, right after we read Great Expectations. It should be noted, though, that Great Exectations is a freshman-level book for in my/our district. I don't think the reading levels of those two books are very far apart so I wonder why the feeling was so strong that Jane Eyre be at the English 4 level. Jane Eyre as required reading, first off, frightens me. For it to be required reading of freshmen, even more so. I’m not sure I would have gotten anything out of that book reading it at the ripe old age of 13 or 14.

What a sad comment that the same literature we read in high school is being read today. Is that to suggest that nothing anywhere near as good and worthy has been produced in the last 15 years? Eck!

I read Jane Eyre in English 4, right after we read Great Expectations. It should be noted, though, that Great Exectations is a freshman-level book for in my/our district. I don’t think the reading levels of those two books are very far apart so I wonder why the feeling was so strong that Jane Eyre be at the English 4 level.

]]> By: Debbie http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2006/04/required-and-allowed-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-213 Debbie Thu, 13 Apr 2006 22:16:30 +0000 http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2006/04/required-and-allowed-reading/#comment-213 Interesting - Jane Eyre for English 4. In my 2nd-tier private high school in 1991, Jane Eyre was required reading for 9th grade. Interesting - Jane Eyre for English 4. In my 2nd-tier private high school in 1991, Jane Eyre was required reading for 9th grade.

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