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DarkCyan

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

sequoia

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.

mommyof6

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.

amother

Broom

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.

GLUE

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.

amother

Obsidian

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.

amother

Dodgerblue

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

amother

Cerise

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.

BetsyTacy

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

sequoia

Thu, Jun 08 2023, 7:21 pm

So they want no references to s-x, no references to church, AND nothing Jewish?

K…

amother

Cerise

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?

amother

Slateblue

Thu, Jun 08 2023, 9:12 pm

We did animal farm in 10th grade . I found it rather boring.

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