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PurpleyPumpkin

Moby Dick: b�l� velryba | Melville Herman

Day 11 #ClassicYouRead #AboutABook
#FolioSociety

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

mrp27 Beautiful edition! 3mo

PurpleyPumpkin @mrp27 Folios do not disappoint!💜 3mo

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Gorgeous 🩵 3mo

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kspenmoll

Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir | Kat Chow

-day 9: #biography-A Life of MW
-day 10: #ABigFamily-The Forty Elephants- found family
-day 11: #ClassicYouRead- P & P
-day 12: #YouFinishedIn1Day - Yellow Dog
-day 13: #FairyTaleRetell-Cinder -Cinderella
-day 14: #WithDualTimeline-Surviving Savannah
-day 15: #OneWordTitle- Middlemarch
-day 16: #Memoir- Seeing Ghosts
#AboutABook

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Well Done 👍🏼👌🏼👏🏻🙏🏻 3mo

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ChelseaM6010

Untitled | Unknown

#AboutABook
Day 11. Classic you read
#ClassicYouRead

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Excellent 🙌🏻 3mo

Eggs Fantastic 👏🏻👏🏻 3mo

ChelseaM6010 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs 🙂🙌 3mo

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JessClark78

The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne

#AboutABook #ClassicYouRead

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 3mo

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Teresereading

To Kill a Mockingbird (Anniversary) | Harper Lee

I couldn't decide if the challenge was classic 'you' (reed) or classic you (red), but I think this fits both options.
#AboutaBook #classicyouread #homophones
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Gorgeous cover! 3mo

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Pretty 😍 3mo

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dabbe

The Odyssey | Homer

#AboutABook
#ClassicYouRead ... #AndTaught
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

IMHO, one of the best hero's quest stories (epic poetry) ever written.

kspenmoll Just adored teaching this to 9th graders! Sadly we now teach The Alchemist instead. To me there is no comparison. 💔 3mo

CindyMyLifeIsLit @kspenmoll The trend toward replacing the classics with more modern fare is troubling, imho. There needs to be balance. Incorporate new works and choice independent reading, but don‘t discard the iconic literary works! That‘s like teaching art and only introducing the artists of the 20th century! What about the Rembrandts, the Michelangelo‘s, etc.? Their work inspired those later artists! 3mo

TheBookHippie Yes! Agreed!! 3mo

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dabbe @kspenmoll Loved THE ALCHEMIST, but you're right, there is no comparison. The 2nd oldest complete piece of Western Civilization literature; c'mon, people! You've got The Lotus Eaters, Circe, and Polyphemus! I feel your pain. 🩵💙🩵 3mo

dabbe @CindyMyLifeIsLit Agree 💯. The kids LOVED it, which is the best complement ever. 🤩🤗😊 3mo

dabbe @TheBookHippie 🤩🤗😊 3mo

Eggs I agrée ☝️. Incorporate some new but don‘t forsake the inimitable classics. 3mo

dabbe @Eggs #wellsaid 🩵💙🩵 3mo

AnnCrystal 😍🤩💝. 3mo

rwmg The Alchemist instead of The Odyssey 😱 Words fail me. There has to be something better than that if you want to incorporate more modern literature into your syllabus. 3mo

kspenmoll @rwmg Yes! Alchemist Not the book for 9th graders. (edited) 3mo

kspenmoll @CindyMyLifeIsLit Wonderful comparison with art. It is troubling, this trend. I heard a HS student on a TV show about banned books that he got nothing from Romeo & Juliet ( that is also gone from our 9th grade curriculum, no Shakespeare) but he did front a current read. R & J is accessible depending on how it is taught. Warring households? Star crossed lovers? How about the tragedy of Israel & Gaza ? 3mo

kspenmoll @dabbe The student‘ loved all the creatures & sea nymphs, etc. we also used Dorothy Parker‘s Penelope poem to add in her perspective. 😞 3mo

dabbe @AnnCrystal 🩵💙🩵 3mo

dabbe @rwmg Agree 💯. 3mo

dabbe @kspenmoll I did, too! Plus the poem “Ithaca“ by Constantine Cavafy. So sad. 😞 3mo

CindyMyLifeIsLit @kspenmoll Teachers in my Facebook English teachers‘ groups say the kids can‘t relate to books like Gatsby. 🤦‍♀️ 1. That‘s why YOU‘RE there, to show them how!! 2. Right! How could any teenager relate to a book about a guy who hates who he is and wants to be someone else? Who desperately wants to belong to the “cool kids” clique and can‘t get in? Who is trying to win that unattainable girl? How could any teen understand those feelings? 🙄 3mo

CindyMyLifeIsLit @kspenmoll It‘s scary that the TEACHERS think that way!! Kids don‘t need us to help them relate to books like We Were Liars or The Hate U Give. They need us to show them that beneath the different clothes and the archaic language, Romeo and Juliet are just like them. So is Gatsby, and George and Lennie, etc. Okay, I‘m climbing off my soapbox now! 😁 3mo

dabbe @CindyMyLifeIsLit @kspenmoll Exactly! I mean, what kid wouldn't want to stick a hot poker through someone's eye? I'd love to be Odysseus! 🤩🤩🤩 3mo

CindyMyLifeIsLit @dabbe 😂😂 Yes, kids LOVE that stuff! 😂 3mo

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Leftcoastzen

Leaves of Grass and Other Writings: Authoritative Texts, Other Poetry and Prose, Criticism | Walt Whitman, Michael Moon, Sculley Bradley, Harold William Blodgett

#AboutABook #ClassicYouRead I think I also have a Library of America edition of this as well

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 3mo

lil1inblue I love Whitman so much. 💖 3mo

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TheBookgeekFrau

Lord of the Flies: New Educational Edition | William Golding

#AboutABook #ClassicYouRead

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 📚🙌🏻 3mo

Eggs Dramatic cover👏🏻👏🏻 3mo

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DebinHawaii

The Annotated Persuasion | Jane Austen, David M. Shapard

#AboutABook

My number one choice for a #ClassicYouRead is Pride and Prejudice but Persuasion is a very close second. 💜

I don‘t own as many copies as I do P&P but here are some of the editions I own

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks So pretty 😍 3mo

Leftcoastzen Nice post! 3mo

Eggs Beautiful editions 👍🏼 3mo

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