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Django Wexler

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But making Gatsby the example shows, again, the problem with making the focus of English education be on *learning the canon* instead of interpretation and argument. I'm begging teachers to do their "Intro to Critical Analysis" with Goosebumps and James Patterson.

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Ranamar's avatar Ranamar @ranamar.bsky.social
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In college required freshman English (which you might well have also had to take, since we went to the same school) used War of the Worlds. I don't remember the curriculum at all, but I thought it was neat that we had a textbook comparing the radio and printed versions.

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