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amother
DarkCyan
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Thu, Jun 08 2023, 4:43 pm
alwaysaprincess wrote: | I’ve taken a job as literature teacher in chassidish high school. I’m looking for a squeaky clean book that would interest 9th grade girls. Book should be very educational and high caliber writing. Can’t be related to anything Jewish as per school rules. I really appreciate your help! |
Shouldn’t the principal tell you
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sequoia
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Thu, Jun 08 2023, 4:56 pm
So just to clarify, Emma would not be appropriate for a chassidish high school because Harriet is described as “the natural daughter of somebody.”
That’s it.
That’s the extent of it.
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mommyof6
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Thu, Jun 08 2023, 5:30 pm
To Kill A Mockingbird is a beautiful book, but not squeaky clean. It centers around a rape accusation.
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amother
Broom
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Thu, Jun 08 2023, 5:36 pm
amother Nasturtium wrote: | Chiming in:(hs principal in Bais Yaakov) Certainly not To Kill a Mocking Bird at all. And not Sep Peace in grade 9. Try Prince and the Pauper, Miracle Worker, Light in the Forest. |
I read A Separate Peace in 9th grade (in BYA). We did Light in the Forest in 8th grade and Miracle Worker in 7th.
Other books we read freshman year: Huck Finn, Prince and the Pauper. I also taught in a BY for a few years; I didn’t teach 9th but we did Thunder on Sycamore Street, Lord of the Flies, Macbeth, and Our Town in 10th.
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GLUE
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Thu, Jun 08 2023, 5:39 pm
I kill the mocking Bird- Paul Acampora is a cute book but I can't see a chaddish school letting it, I don't know if it has any literary value but it is funny.
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amother
Obsidian
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Thu, Jun 08 2023, 5:47 pm
ladYdI wrote: | Number the stars
Boy in the striped pajamas
The wave |
Please don't teach Boy in the Stripped Pyjamas. It's such a gross misrepresentation of the Holocaust that the author actually gave a formal apology, after many groups questioned and attacked it.
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amother
Dodgerblue
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Thu, Jun 08 2023, 6:26 pm
I remember doing these in school. Probably some were in younger grades.
The Endless Steppe
Johnny Tremaine
Across Five Aprils
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amother
Cerise
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Thu, Jun 08 2023, 7:08 pm
Maybe Anne of Green Gables? Might have to cross out references to church if that bothers the school.
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BetsyTacy
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Thu, Jun 08 2023, 7:10 pm
No way to Anne of Green Gables. Too much church for sure. And Sunday School picnics, and x-mas
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sequoia
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Thu, Jun 08 2023, 7:21 pm
So they want no references to s-x, no references to church, AND nothing Jewish?
K…
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amother
Cerise
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Thu, Jun 08 2023, 7:34 pm
One of my favorite books we read in high school was The Cellist of Sarajevo. I think it’s pretty short though.
Julius Caesar?
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amother
Slateblue
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Thu, Jun 08 2023, 9:12 pm
We did animal farm in 10th grade . I found it rather boring.
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