[etni] Re: Fw: my ideas for lit
- From: Bari Nirenberg <bnirenberg@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ask@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:49:15 +0200
I don't want to comment on the literature program, but I do want to comment
on what Sharon said (below). I was rather surprised to learn that Eveline
and A Summer's Reading and Richard Cory were still among the most commonly
taught literary works in Israel. As far as I know, those pieces appear
together only in EMT, a book which my school hasn't used for a decade or
so. We've been using A Cool Collection 2 since it came out, I think (and I
believe we tried another book between EMT and A Cool Collection).
Personally, I would be a lot happier if the core literature were to be taken
from a newer anthology (like A Cool Collection) and if ALL of the pieces,
including the play, were to appear in a single book.
Regarding photocopying stories, I think that in many schools (mine
included), that would be very impractical. Teachers are often limited in
the amount of photocopying they are allowed to do and having the students do
it could be a logistical nightmare.
Bari
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Ask_Etni <ask@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Someone mentioned that the core texts were chosen partly to save students
> and schools from buying new books. My response: There has been no set
> curriculum for literature for the last 15 years (more or less), which means
> that schools are using a wide variety of anthologies. Some of the more
> recently published anthologies do not have the older pieces....
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> A far greater cost to the students will be the need to buy new textbooks.
> The new D and F module will make almost all of our current high schools
> textbooks irrelevant.
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