If you could choose one book as a mandatory read for all high school students, which book would you choose?
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Posted by spooky8 Oct 26th, 2012 at 2:44AM
Atlas Shrugged
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Posted by Classicality7 Oct 26th, 2012 at 2:43AM
Elements of Style
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Posted by MissComet Oct 26th, 2012 at 3:41AM
'Living In Truth' (a collection of letters and essays) by Vaclav Havel. Every kid needs to learn about communism and this book explains it really well.
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Posted by Kahakai Oct 26th, 2012 at 3:25AM
Animal Farm.
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Posted by Taldaris Oct 26th, 2012 at 2:52AM
The Art of War.
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Posted by plungesponge Oct 26th, 2012 at 2:49AM
All the Terry Pratchett books
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Posted by Emmanuel04 Oct 26th, 2012 at 2:45AM
the bible
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Reply by PrincessMaine Oct 26th, 2012 at 2:50AM
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Posted by GwydionFrost Oct 26th, 2012 at 2:43AM
"Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn.
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Posted by winstonwelles Nov 1st, 2012 at 8:02PM
I don't actually think they should be forced to READ Shakespeare, I think that's what puts so many kids off it. Watching and/or performing it is much more immersive, and afterwards you can use the texts to go back over it and analyse it.
There's a wonderful book called Flat Earth News, I forget the author, which gives you a whole new perspective on what motivates media sources and how to second guess what you see on the news. Stuff which is also applicable to politics, education, history, pretty much anything involving the analysis of information sources.
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Posted by stankadiddlehopper Oct 26th, 2012 at 7:53AM
"The Rape of the A*P*E" I forget who wrote it but the initials are for the American Puritan Ethic and is a history of the sexual revolution. If enough teens read it, they might not drift into sex as easily. [:{)
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Posted by holloway64 Oct 26th, 2012 at 4:27AM
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
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Posted by englishsteve Oct 26th, 2012 at 3:52AM
For older high school students and to be dipped into here and there: 1960s communications guru Marshall McLuhan's 'The Gutenberg Galaxy' which explores how tools and media can shape our societies, personal lives and most intimate thought. His speculations on the - then - coming electronic media's tribalising impact on society seemed to me to be very far-sighted.
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Posted by TimelessEyes Oct 26th, 2012 at 3:42AM
"Mockingbird", by Kathryn Erskine.
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