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PragerU video draws backlash for depicting Frederick Douglass in an animation calling slavery a compromise between the Founding Fathers and the Southern colonies for the benefit of the U.S.
My picks in the poll were “Charlotte’s Web,” “Catch-22” and Toni Morrison’s “Beloved,” books which affected me profoundly at the time I read them, and which have shaped my perception of the world since.
The #Disrupt Texts website is a pernicious advocate of displacing Shakespeare and other significant figures and works, including F. Scott Fitzgerald’s <em>The Great Gatsby</em>, Harper Lee’s <em>To Kill a Mockingbird</em> and Arthur Miller’s <em>The Crucible</em>.
In an effort to expand the literary canon for students across all grade levels, Penguin Classics has joined forces with #DisruptTexts, a crowdsourced, grassroots organization orchestrated by and aimed at teachers.
a- The reading and study of the classics used to be an important part of our educational system. There's plenty of material. English-language writers have written many famous books, and many works of literature from other languages have been translated into English. Nowadays though, much of the market share of the classics has been taken over by the Young Adult Fiction genre, targeted to adolescents. As Wikipedia describes it, "The subject matter and genres of YA correlate with the age and experience of the protagonist. The genres available in YA are expansive and include most ...