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I have a question that may or may not be possible to be covered by a poll, but I will try :)
When in school, in the range between 6 and 14 years of age, if you had specific books or stories assigned as parts of curriculum of literature, how big a percentage of them were from your language/country/regional culture, and how many branched out?
For example, to explain what I mean. In Poland, for "Polish language" we get A LOT of compulsory items to read. Among these are books written for the specific age group in Polish AND ALSO relevant books translated from other countries. At least when I was at school (80s-90s) we had "Alla vi barn i Bullerbyn" (Swedish), "A Pál utcai fiúk" (Hungarian), with also "Pippi Långstrump" and "Hobbit" being an option. "Anne of Green Gables" was on the list, and I think "Secret Garden", too. Some stories translated from Russian were nearly a given, since I started primary school in 1985, but I managed to successfully delete them from my brain.
So, what was it like for you?
(I'm trying to cover also the option of eg British books being read in US, AU and other EN-speaking countries, so option 4 is about that; but also if you're reading books from Spain in Latin America or books from France in countries where French is one of main languages....)
Please share for wider response pool. I'm really curious how it happens in other countries. If you add some option I did not cover, please hint at a language/country :)
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Breaking Bad characters + the books I think they read in school that haunted them forever:
#jesse would only read pg 1 but he would remember it forever ✋#i wanted to assign jesse Caleb Williams but realistically that was not on his curriculum and even if it was#he wouldnt read even 1 page#walter white#jesse pinkman#hank schrader#gale boetticher#skyler white#brba#breaking bad#lit#spaceman posts#q#walter white after reading Goethe's Faust: “I too could defeat the devil if i so wished”#“and my wife who i abuse also loves me too definitely”
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#ch.txt#idk what to tag this as for the sake of exposure#i’ll start so no one’s embarrassed: i was literally never taught about anything more recent than WW2#BUT I moved around a lot and different schools have different curriculums#so that resulted in things like. me learning about the revolutionary war like 8 separate times#I learned about WW2 about 6 separate times and the teacher who did the best job was an english teacher not history#and all he did was make us read/talk about Night by Elie Wiesel. the only reason I think I have a decent grasp#on the subject of the holocaust itself is bc that’s kind of just an unavoidable part of growing up Jewish#and bc I read Maus#if you’re curious abt which teacher covered WW2 the worst btw it was the US hist teacher that spent half the unit JUST talking about D-Day#in the most ‘yeah America! we saved the day and we’re heroes’ way possible#i actually used to hate history as a kid bc of it. now I’m majoring in it
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Was complaining about how weird it is that my LGBTQ lit professor used books from every era and facet of queer history except AIDS and one of my underclassmen classmates genuinely asked me why AIDS is a queer issue OPEN THE SCHOOLS OH MY GOD
#like. how do you not know#and the reason I brought it up is bc I'm reading a book about AIDS for lgbtq week in my OTHER (YA) lit class#so idk how it was left out of the actual lgbtq lit curriculum#i guess they just expect us to know about it already?#i mean shes mostly right its been brought up in passing before but i just feel like its a glaring hole in the syllabus#anyway. someone teach the baby gays PLEASE#ramblies
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"Bisexuals Who Kill: Hollywood's Bisexual Crimewave, 1985-1998" by Jonathan David White (Bisexual Men in Culture and Society, p. 47)
#bisexuals who kill: hollywood's bisexual crimewave 1985-1998#bisexual men in culture and society#blue velvet#upl#just uploading the evening's reading don't mind me...cool reader. fascinating to see the transference to queer women spelled out#in this piece too. makes me want to put together a little personal film curriculum
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chat im not even going to lie to you everyday I wake up and consider becoming a middle school science teacher.
#guy who read project Hail Mary and thought this particular thought would pass#but it hasn't passed and i think about it with a startling regularity.#I think id be good at it is also the thing. like I think I would actually be really good at teaching teens#also middle school specifically. I could do high school curriculum but middle schoolers are more interesting
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how I see the Poisonwood Bible girls btw. if you even care 😔
#the poisonwood bible#poisonwood bible#it’s the eng lit curriculum for me#gonna read this next year in ap lit#but I’m reading it first for funsies#and holy cow it is good#I love a good religious theme#especially when faith goes sour#it kinda relates a lot being from a Christian school#most of my classmates are missionary kids#shocked it’s even in my skl’s curriculum#rachel price#leah price#adah price#ruth may price#the price sisters#tata jesus is bängala#art#fanart#poisonwood bible fanart
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My other opinion is that anyone who says "Kids and young people shouldn't read XYZ because it contains ABC" should be chained in a dungeon and only allowed to read a curriculum of my choosing for 7 to 10 business days.
This is a pointlessly punitive stance, but it is mine.
#at minimum such people should be voted off the school boards#the curriculum is a compromise of me screaming into their face#'OH! So my own childhood isn't suitable for kids to read about huh??'#my childhood wasn't even bad! it's like one and a half ACEs
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I just read a twitter thread that hurt my brain. Is illiteracy common in the US??? Why did I just find out that you can pass school without learning how to read?? Please help me cause this literally cannot be true I am actually going to lose it
#like I get being illiterate when you have not been to school#but what do you mean people are just graduating school without learning how to read??#say sike rn#wtf#oh I am actually going to be sick we are so doomed#us school system#us politics#illiteracy#literacy#school curriculum#reading comprehension
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the unofficial ultimate bungo stray dogs reading list
this is mainly for myself bc i rly do want to read most if not all of these and i'm sure it's already been done by someone somewhere. but, i thought why not post it lmao; most if not all of these can be found on anna's archive, z-library, or project gutenberg! (also, consider buying from your local bookstore!) for those that are a bit harder to find, i've included links, though some are from j-stor and would require login to access.
detective agency:
osamu dazai:
no longer human (novel)
the setting sun (novel)
nakajima atsushi:
the moon over the mountain: stories (short story collection)
light, wind and dreams (short story)
fukuzawa yukichi:
an encouragement of learning (17 volume collections of writings)
all the countries of the world, for children written in verse (textbook)
yosano akiko:
kimi shinitamou koto nakare (poem)
midaregami (poetry collection)
edogawa ranpo:
the boy detectives club (book series)
japanese tales of mystery and imagination (short story collection)
the early cases of akechi kogoro (novel)
kunikida doppo:
river mist and other stories (short story collection)
izumi kyouka:
demon lake (play)
spirits of another sort: the plays of izumi kyoka (play collection)
tanizaki junichirou:
the makioka sisters (novel)
the red roof and other stories (short story collection)
miyazawa kenji:
ame ni mo makezu; be not defeated by the rain (poem)
night on the galactic railroad (novel)
strong in the rain (poetry collection)
port mafia:
mori ougai:
vita sexualis (novel)
the dancing girl (novel)
nakahara chuuya:
poems of nakahara chuya (poetry collection)
akutagawa ryuunosuke:
rashoumon (short story)
the spider's thread (short story)
rashoumon and other stories (short story collection)
ozaki kyouyou:
the gold demon (novel)
higuchi ichiyou:
in the shade of spring leaves (biography and short stories)
hirotsu ryuurou:
falling camellia (novel)
tachihara michizou:
in mourning for the summer (poem)
midwinter momento (poem)
from the country of eight islands: an anthology of japanese poetry (poetry collection)
kajii motojirou:
lemon (short story)
yumeno kyuusaku:
dogra magra (novel)
oda sakunosuke:
flawless/immaculate (short story)
sakaguchi ango:
darakuron (essay)
the guild:
f. scott fitzgerald:
the great gatsby (novel)
the beautiful and the damned (novel)
edgar allen poe:
the raven (poem)
the black cat (short story)
the murders in the rue morgue (short story)
herman melville:
moby dick (novel)
h.p. lovecraft:
the call of cthulhu (short story)
the shadow out of time (novella)
john steinbeck:
the grapes of wrath (novel)
of mice and men (novel)
lucy maud montgomery:
anne of green gables (novel)
the blue castle (novel)
chronicles of avonlea (short story collection)
louisa may alcott:
little women (novel)
the brownie and the princess (short story collection)
margaret mitchell:
gone with the wind (novel)
mark twain:
the adventures of tom sawyer (novel)
adventures of huckleberry finn (novel)
nathaniel hawthorn:
the scarlet letter (novel)
rats in the house of the dead:
fyodor dostoevsky:
crime and punishment (novel)
the brothers karamozov (novel)
notes from the underground (short story collection)
alexander pushkin:
eugene onegin (novel)
a feast in time of plague (play)
ivan goncharov:
the precipice (novel)
oguri mushitarou:
the perfect crime (novel)
decay of the angel:
fukuchi ouchi:
the mirror lion, a spring diversion (kabuki play)
bram stoker:
dracula (novel)
dracula's guest and other weird stories (short story collection)
nikolai gogol:
the overcoat (short story)
dead souls (novel)
hunting dogs: (i must caveat here that the hunting dogs are named after much more comparatively obscure jpn writers/playwrights so i was unable to find a lot of the specific pieces actually mentioned; but i still wanted to include them on the list because well -- it wouldn't be a bsd list without them)
okura teruko:
gasp of the soul (short story; i wasn't able to find an english translation)
devil woman (short story)
jouno saigiku:
priceless tears (kabuki play; no translation but at least we have a summary)
suehiro tetchou:
setchuubai/a political novel: plum blossoms in snow (novel)
division for unusual powers:
taneda santouka:
the santoka: versions by scott watson (poetry collection)
tsujimura mizuki:
lonely castle in the mirror (novel)
yesterday's shadow tag (short story collection; i was unable to find a translation)
order of the clock tower:
agatha christie:
and then there were none (novel)
murder on the orient express (novel)
she is the best selling fiction writer of all time there's too much to list here
mimic:
andre gide:
strait is the gate (novel)
trascendents:
arthur rimbaud:
illuminations (poetry collection)
the drunken boat (poem)
a season in hell (prose poem)
johann von goethe:
faust
the sorrows of young werther
paul verlaine:
clair de lune (poem, yes it did inspire the debussy piece, yes)
poems under saturn (poetry collection)
victor hugo:
the hunchback of notre-dame (novel)
les miserables (novel)
william shakespeare:
romeo and juliet (play)
a midsummer nights' dream (play)
sonnets (poetry collection)
the seven traitors:
jules verne:
around the world in 80 days (novel)
journey to the center of the earth (novel)
twenty thousand leagues under the seas (novel)
other:
natsume souseki:
i am a cat (novel)
kokoro (novel)
botchan (novel)
h.g. wells:
the time machine (novella)
the invisible man (novel)
the war of the worlds (novel)
shibusawa tatsuhiko:
the travels of prince takaoka (novel; unable to find translation)
dr. mary wollstonecraft godwin shelley
frankenstein (novel)
#bungo stray dogs#bsd#literature#dark academia#reading list#academia#i'm sure there's people i've missed but i did my best LOL#this also really throws into a stark contrast how relatively un-worldly american literary curriculums really are#obviously; it makes vague sense to focus american literary schooling on the western 'canon' bc so much of the english language#is influenced by it and the 'culture' is more touched by it but HOLY SHIT does it just... astound me#how uneducated i am on even east asian literature (from wheremst i technically hail!!!)#i know like.... maybe 3?? 4??? chinese writers off cuff???#like the only reason i even know anything about jpn literature is i got my minor in jpn so i read some stuff but WOWWWWW there's a wORLD.#the fact that i knew not a SINGLE work by most of these jpn writers but as soon as we got to the guild members#i didn't even have to fucking google/wiki -- i just KNEW off the top of my head#kinda fucked up tbh;;;;#anyway this list is massive but i think at least dipping my foot into some of the poems/short stories will be fun
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It’s absolutely ridiculous how Norwegian parent networks will just uncritically adopt the claims and talking points of American parent networks completely neglecting the specific national educational and political context. How utterly embarrassing to go out on national television and say “pride has no place in schools because ideology and politics have no place in schools they should be apolitical” when you have a child in an education system with a curriculum that is explicitly political. 

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the true most untalked about scene in the outsiders ever
#the outsiders#dallas winston#the fact this is the middle school curriculum too#why were we allowed to read this
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everything sucks so bad i'm afraid
#i feel like everyone is leaving me but i can't do anything about it because finals are around the corner😭#like. a master's degree ended up being WAY more demanding than i thought i feel so stupid#i got through all my readings just fine but the linguistics portion of the curriculum is so intense and technical#and honestly it's SO interesting. i really do enjoy it. but the fact that i have to take a final for it is stressing me out#because the material is so rigorous and i'm afraid i won't be able to give it the time it deserves#meanwhile all my friends are drifting apart and my fuckarse sister has decided to go no contact with me/us so i'm lichrally just.#by myself all the time. working and studying#please god bring decemeber quickly and give me the strength to pass everything with flying colors so i dont feel bad about all the people#i lost on the way💀#don't even get me started on my work-related anxieties#how does anyone get by in this world i'm so tired i'm SO. TIRED. AND NERVOUS😭
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