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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Should Huckleberry Finn Be Taught In CHS?
Should Huckleberry Finn be taught in CHS? No I think that Huckleberry Finn should not be taught in CHS for many reasons. First because it is inappropriate for school. Second it has bad grammar for it to be a book for english class. My last reason is that this book is really boring.
My first reason why this book should not be taught in CHS is because it is inappropriate for school. My main points why Huck Finn is inappropriate for school is that it has cursing, racial slurs, and bad influences. This book has a lot of racial slurs and cursing such as "niggers is always talking about witches in the dark by the kitchen fire..." Although the students have no issue with this, it makes no sense that if we can't use these words that we're aloud to read them. Also most adults are always complaining about how the music we listen to and shows we watch are influencial but you make us read a book with negative influences such as gangs and robbery.
My second reason was that that this book has bad grammar. This is not an appropriate book to be reading in an english class when your suppose to be teaching us correct grammar.
My final reason why Huckleberry Finn should not be taught in school is that this novel is extremely boring. Majority of my classmates agree with me on this statement stating that they "didn't read the book" and those that did read the book "never finished it and only read the first few chapters". During class the students would be reading other books instead of doing the assignment. I think that if a book is going to be the main focus of our english course than it should be something that we are interested in, something that catches our focus, one of those books that once you pick it up u can't stop reading it. Some great suggestions are: "Romiette and Julio" by Sharon M. Draper, "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer, "Naughts & Crosses" by Malorie Blackman, "Emako Blue" by Brenda Woods, "Fake ID" by Walter Sorrells, all of these books are amazing and can be found in the teen section of the library so they are all appropriate for school.
My first reason why this book should not be taught in CHS is because it is inappropriate for school. My main points why Huck Finn is inappropriate for school is that it has cursing, racial slurs, and bad influences. This book has a lot of racial slurs and cursing such as "niggers is always talking about witches in the dark by the kitchen fire..." Although the students have no issue with this, it makes no sense that if we can't use these words that we're aloud to read them. Also most adults are always complaining about how the music we listen to and shows we watch are influencial but you make us read a book with negative influences such as gangs and robbery.
My second reason was that that this book has bad grammar. This is not an appropriate book to be reading in an english class when your suppose to be teaching us correct grammar.
My final reason why Huckleberry Finn should not be taught in school is that this novel is extremely boring. Majority of my classmates agree with me on this statement stating that they "didn't read the book" and those that did read the book "never finished it and only read the first few chapters". During class the students would be reading other books instead of doing the assignment. I think that if a book is going to be the main focus of our english course than it should be something that we are interested in, something that catches our focus, one of those books that once you pick it up u can't stop reading it. Some great suggestions are: "Romiette and Julio" by Sharon M. Draper, "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer, "Naughts & Crosses" by Malorie Blackman, "Emako Blue" by Brenda Woods, "Fake ID" by Walter Sorrells, all of these books are amazing and can be found in the teen section of the library so they are all appropriate for school.
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