Posted on 07/28/2018 12:20:45 PM PDT by MV=PY
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That’s an awesome list!
A little Asimov and Heinlein, and it’d be perfect.
Ok, ok. Add Jerry Pournelle, not Asimov. ;)
It is called Class Dojo. I think that is it.
These were the actual books I had to read. :)
Also:
Flowers for Algernon
Lord of the Flies
Animal Farm
The five oldest and most trusted Islamic sources don’t portray Muhammad as a great and godly man. They confirm that he was a thief, liar, assassin, mass murderer, terrorist, warmonger, and an unrestrained sexual pervert engaged in pedophilia, incest, and rape. He authorized deception, assassinations, torture, slavery, and genocide. He was a pirate, not a prophet. According to the Hadith and the Qur’an, Muhammad and his henchmen plundered their way to power and prosperity................. Doom on his cult.
Add “SADAKA and the THOUSAND PAPER CRANES”
True story of Sadaka, a young Japanese girl who was horribly burned and suffered radiation poisoning when the American military dropped the atomic bomb on a innocent Japanese city.
Usually read in class and not allowed to be brought home.
I discovered it when going over end of the week school work with my young son. Came across a quiz paper. The first question was:
“How do you feel about viewing pictures of disfigured human beings?”
He said the quiz was on a book they were reading in class.
Requested book be brought home. School refused.
Found copy at the public library. Read it. Book makes it crystal clear it was the bad, bad, American military that did this to innocent Japanese.
Scheduled meeting with Principal. He told me I was the ONLY one to complain trying to make ME the problem. It didn’t work.
This was around 25 years ago. This book is not age appropriate for young children and its use is a deliberate attempt to propagandize children and turn them against the U.S.
A little Asimov and Heinlein, and it’d be perfect.
Laz's reading list pretty much mirrors my own (Catholic high school, the Carter years). One of the teachers did sneak in a bit of sci-fi: Larry Niven's Ringworld.
Flowers for Algernon
Lord of the Flies
Animal Farm
IIRC, I read Lord of the Flies and Animal Farm in (public) middle school.
We read Poe, Shakespeare and Twain as a few in high school. Read “Brave New World” and “Johnny Tremain” on my own. Picked up more in Short Story and Novel in college. Read “The N-—— and the Narcissus” there, more Twain, forgot the rest.
Works for me.
Thank You
HELL YEAH!!! Double Doom!
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