Was that to just tell us what they were going to do, and there was nothing we could do about it?
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As a kid in SoCal they made us read 1984 and "Animal Farm"
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Benny106
I dont know but that shit was not an instruction manual.
We had the same books. Along with Kon Tiki and The Good Earth. I loved reading in high school.
I can not even BEGIN to imagine what the required reading is in high school today. OMG!! Do they even teach them to read, any more? LOL
Any high school teachers here?
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I can not even BEGIN to imagine what the required reading is in high school today. OMG!! Do they even teach them to read, any more? LOL
Any high school teachers here?
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AgentPothead
Just this guy, ya know?
Humanity isn't the good guys. Compared to the rest of the universe, ya'll are fucking savages. There isn't a single story where humanity rescues another species out of the goodness of it's heart. There are a few about humanity eating another species to extinction. But that's not really the same is it.
Tynehead Tom
Well-known member
it's funny this thread popped up as just the other day I was discussing this very topic with friends. I'm from Canada and also grew up with these books as mandatory reading in high school. I remember them well .
The dems in the states and the libs in Canada along with their UN overlords are using these books as a social engineering manual. I'd laugh but it is really not funny.
In Canada , Justin Trudeau (liberal party) is exactly the kind of government that those books warn us about. Disgustingly void of moral fortitude and hell bent on reducing a fine free nation into communist like tyranny. It's happening as we speak across north America, people totally brainwashed by the left and the media.
I sure hope America has seen the dems for what they are after this whole charade against trump. What a bunch of power hungry, financially corrupt, morally devoid lying nutjobs those people are.
I ain't American but …….. Trump 2020.... America's future as a free nation depends on it. If you disagree..... go read the books this thread is about.
As a kid in Alabama I also had to read 1984, Animal Farm, Kon Tiki and Schindler's List in Jr High. My High School Lit teacher turned me on to Tolkien and I read The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings on my own. Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn were recommended summer reading in grade school.
I was an avid reader and I read my 7th grade science book cover to cover in the first week. One day the teacher (a major asshole) told us to read chapter 3. I had already read the whole book so I took out my sketch pad and started drawing. When dickhead saw me drawing he asked why I wasn't reading. I told him I had already read the chapter. So he says "OK smart guy, pop quiz. Everybody listen while I give Welder a test." So he pulls out his Teachers edition, goes to the back of the chapter and asked all the questions that would be on the test the following day. I ace the first five answers, and he is getting red faced. I ace the next 5 too, and he says, "well, you obviously read it, so go back to drawing." Being the smart ass I am, I said "You wanna test me on the next chapter? I already read that too." "NO! Now everybody read chapter 3!" I didn't have to take the test the next day either.
I still read a lot, but instead of horror and fiction, I'm reading history, and instead of books I'm on the computer. I'm into a lotta different shit, and I spend a lot of time on Youtube too.
Now to address the OP's question:
No, I don't think it was a warning of what was going to happen and we couldn't do anything about it. I do think it was a way of making you think outside the box and about what "could" happen if we weren't careful.
And it sure a fuck wasn't supposed to be an instruction manual, though it almost feels prescient.
I don't know what they are teaching kids nowadays, but it isn't Civics (hell, most adults don't understand how government is supposed to work, or know jack shit about the Constitution), or History.
I was an avid reader and I read my 7th grade science book cover to cover in the first week. One day the teacher (a major asshole) told us to read chapter 3. I had already read the whole book so I took out my sketch pad and started drawing. When dickhead saw me drawing he asked why I wasn't reading. I told him I had already read the chapter. So he says "OK smart guy, pop quiz. Everybody listen while I give Welder a test." So he pulls out his Teachers edition, goes to the back of the chapter and asked all the questions that would be on the test the following day. I ace the first five answers, and he is getting red faced. I ace the next 5 too, and he says, "well, you obviously read it, so go back to drawing." Being the smart ass I am, I said "You wanna test me on the next chapter? I already read that too." "NO! Now everybody read chapter 3!" I didn't have to take the test the next day either.
I still read a lot, but instead of horror and fiction, I'm reading history, and instead of books I'm on the computer. I'm into a lotta different shit, and I spend a lot of time on Youtube too.
Now to address the OP's question:
No, I don't think it was a warning of what was going to happen and we couldn't do anything about it. I do think it was a way of making you think outside the box and about what "could" happen if we weren't careful.
And it sure a fuck wasn't supposed to be an instruction manual, though it almost feels prescient.
I don't know what they are teaching kids nowadays, but it isn't Civics (hell, most adults don't understand how government is supposed to work, or know jack shit about the Constitution), or History.
Amazing that all schools had the subject two books. I somehow dodged the others mentioned except JRR Tolkien, which I discovered on my own cause everybody was reading them in 1973 - I found them to be inspirational. Windowpane and Lord of the Rings. whew.
A lot of stuff that was fiction back in the day is reality now. Dick Tracy watch now is way way more capable than the cartoon. They want to put lasers on military planes, already have them on ships and trucks.
All new modern good stuff ends up being used against us. Like communications and the internet.
Since the gold (or whatever) standard was abandoned, greed (Animal Farm) and control (1984) have sure been able to take over. Debt (living it up now, cause surely you will be a baller later and can afford it) is no substitute for productivity - and there is a lot of debt.
Somehow the HS books that conditioned us missed the debt is bad lesson.
A lot of stuff that was fiction back in the day is reality now. Dick Tracy watch now is way way more capable than the cartoon. They want to put lasers on military planes, already have them on ships and trucks.
All new modern good stuff ends up being used against us. Like communications and the internet.
Since the gold (or whatever) standard was abandoned, greed (Animal Farm) and control (1984) have sure been able to take over. Debt (living it up now, cause surely you will be a baller later and can afford it) is no substitute for productivity - and there is a lot of debt.
Somehow the HS books that conditioned us missed the debt is bad lesson.
Brother Nature
Well-known member
I had to read a Brave New World in high school (though I feel I'm a bit younger than most posting here). I was in Nor Cal though... Definitely preferred that to Orwell's novels, which kind of just came across as anti-communist scare propaganda to me, though I was never asked to read them in school. Good books, but I think Huxley's novel comes a little closer to our current reality, plus learning about Huxley lead me to discover psychedelics so that opened my mind up way more than any written word has.
The scary thing to me is that if most Americans have read these books, why are they letting whats going on continue?
The scary thing to me is that if most Americans have read these books, why are they letting whats going on continue?
Douglas.Curtis
Autistic Diplomat in Training
School is about propaganda, not a real education. You want to know why everything is socialist this and democratic that nowdays? It's a specific agenda.
Look up "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America."
This is why you have (not very bright) people championing socialism, and complaining about how America is not democratic. They've been programmed to believe untruths and half-lies.
Look up "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America."
The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America said:
This is why you have (not very bright) people championing socialism, and complaining about how America is not democratic. They've been programmed to believe untruths and half-lies.
Tynehead Tom
Well-known member
I read Tolkien long before high school. My brother gave me the paper back one book trilogy in 1979 when I was just 10 years old. Read the entire thing in 3 weeks. Still have that very book to this day.
I absolutely hated English class in high school.. My 12th grade teacher's name was Mrs. Payne...
And her first name was Constance...I kid you not!!
In late 1971 I had to do a book report essay, and she told us it could be on any book we chose...
I chose "A Child's Garden of Grass" which I had bought as a paperback...
When I got my essay back, I got an A on my report.
Mrs Payne called me aside and told me she did not approve of my subject matter, but my report was excellent...
It was the only A that I got in her class that entire year...
PS, yeah, I read 1984 and Animal Farm.. back then I thought there's no way our country will ever get that bad...
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And her first name was Constance...I kid you not!!
In late 1971 I had to do a book report essay, and she told us it could be on any book we chose...
I chose "A Child's Garden of Grass" which I had bought as a paperback...
When I got my essay back, I got an A on my report.
Mrs Payne called me aside and told me she did not approve of my subject matter, but my report was excellent...
It was the only A that I got in her class that entire year...
PS, yeah, I read 1984 and Animal Farm.. back then I thought there's no way our country will ever get that bad...
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This is tragic. Here is the 2019 Required Reading List for the local high school...
http://library.booksite.com/7631/nl/?list=CNL3
Some examples...
[SIZE=+1]Solo[/SIZE]
By Alexander, Kwame
Author Hess, Mary Rand
2017-08 - Blink
9780310761839 Check Our Catalog
New York Times bestseller
Blade never asked for a life of the rich and famous. In fact, he'd give anything not to be the son of Rutherford Morrison, a washed-up rock star and drug addict with delusions of a comeback. Or to no longer be part of a family known most for lost potential, failure, and tragedy, including the loss of his mother. The one …More
[SIZE=+1]The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: Volume 1, the Pox Party[/SIZE]
By Anderson, M. T.
2006-09 - Candlewick Press (MA)
0763624020 Check Our Catalog
Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age 16, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War. …More
[SIZE=+1]Head Case[/SIZE]
By Aronson, Sarah
2007-09 - Roaring Brook Press
1596432144 Check Our Catalog
Aronson pens a debut novel about a teenager who has it all--until he drinks five beers and gets into his car. Soon afterward, he has an accident that paralyzes him from the neck down and also kills his girlfriend. …More
[SIZE=+1]Hanging on to Max[/SIZE]
By Bechard, Margaret
2002-05 - Roaring Brook Press
0761315799 Check Our Catalog
CCBC Choices - 2003
Sam's girlfriend is pregnant -- but Sam is keeping the baby. Sam should be planning for college and trying out for the football team with his best friend, Andy. Instead he's up to his ears in diapers and formula, caring for his baby son, Max. Will Sam now have to make a gut-wrenching decision about Max's future -- and his own? A poignant and humorous look at …More
I weep for the future.
.
http://library.booksite.com/7631/nl/?list=CNL3
Some examples...
[SIZE=+1]Solo[/SIZE]
By Alexander, Kwame
Author Hess, Mary Rand
2017-08 - Blink
9780310761839 Check Our Catalog
New York Times bestseller
Blade never asked for a life of the rich and famous. In fact, he'd give anything not to be the son of Rutherford Morrison, a washed-up rock star and drug addict with delusions of a comeback. Or to no longer be part of a family known most for lost potential, failure, and tragedy, including the loss of his mother. The one …More
[SIZE=+1]The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: Volume 1, the Pox Party[/SIZE]
By Anderson, M. T.
2006-09 - Candlewick Press (MA)
0763624020 Check Our Catalog
Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age 16, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War. …More
[SIZE=+1]Head Case[/SIZE]
By Aronson, Sarah
2007-09 - Roaring Brook Press
1596432144 Check Our Catalog
Aronson pens a debut novel about a teenager who has it all--until he drinks five beers and gets into his car. Soon afterward, he has an accident that paralyzes him from the neck down and also kills his girlfriend. …More
[SIZE=+1]Hanging on to Max[/SIZE]
By Bechard, Margaret
2002-05 - Roaring Brook Press
0761315799 Check Our Catalog
CCBC Choices - 2003
Sam's girlfriend is pregnant -- but Sam is keeping the baby. Sam should be planning for college and trying out for the football team with his best friend, Andy. Instead he's up to his ears in diapers and formula, caring for his baby son, Max. Will Sam now have to make a gut-wrenching decision about Max's future -- and his own? A poignant and humorous look at …More
I weep for the future.
.
That is a sad list there. Indoctrination several levels higher than when I was in HS. I am truely glad I have no children because of how F'ed up America has become. Plus I was skaird to make another in case they were like me.
LOL Mr. Bud Green. As a HS senior (Junior?) I also had to write a research paper, and writing isn't exactly my forte, incase it wasn't showing. I put the damn thing off for as long as I could, so of course did it in the last week or so, and the topic was "Marijuana". True story. Might as well research something I liked.
LOL Mr. Bud Green. As a HS senior (Junior?) I also had to write a research paper, and writing isn't exactly my forte, incase it wasn't showing. I put the damn thing off for as long as I could, so of course did it in the last week or so, and the topic was "Marijuana". True story. Might as well research something I liked.
