I've owned Grapes of Wrath since I was in college, but didn't get around to reading it until a few years ago. What an amazing work of literature. Though it described another era, its relevance to what we're living through today is undeniable. I'd read a bunch of other Steinbeck, which was great, but this was surely his masterpiece. What a moron David Coleman is for discounting great literature in favor of train schedules.
I read Grapes of Wrath in sophomore year. It had a major impact on my way of seeing the world. An amazing book.
I am told that students will still be reading some literature in their yearly "seeds" but that the complexity and difficulty will be ratcheted up for them.
Thus, Grapes of Wrath will now be read in fourth grade, Of Mice and Men in second grade.
The words in the text were "analyzed" by a text complexity specialist and found to be at those grade levels.
I'm only sort of kidding at that.
Have you seen the "pods" and "seeds" the NYSED has provided for ELA for the 9th grade next year?
I've owned Grapes of Wrath since I was in college, but didn't get around to reading it until a few years ago. What an amazing work of literature. Though it described another era, its relevance to what we're living through today is undeniable. I'd read a bunch of other Steinbeck, which was great, but this was surely his masterpiece. What a moron David Coleman is for discounting great literature in favor of train schedules.
ReplyDeleteI read Grapes of Wrath in sophomore year. It had a major impact on my way of seeing the world. An amazing book.
DeleteI am told that students will still be reading some literature in their yearly "seeds" but that the complexity and difficulty will be ratcheted up for them.
Thus, Grapes of Wrath will now be read in fourth grade, Of Mice and Men in second grade.
The words in the text were "analyzed" by a text complexity specialist and found to be at those grade levels.
I'm only sort of kidding at that.
Have you seen the "pods" and "seeds" the NYSED has provided for ELA for the 9th grade next year?