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Originally Posted by ekbell
My teenage daughter recommends the Manga Classics adaptation of Dracula as a good lead-in to the original.
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I resisted Manga for many years until my wife introduced me to some very good ones. I was quite surprised and a little ashamed that I had not seen them as a valuable genre of reading before then. They can be a very good gateway to more traditional reading, especially for those who have some degree of aphantasia and experience trouble visualizing.
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Originally Posted by ekbell
My feeling on the matter is that forcing high school children to read Classic classics is much better then forcing them to read 'relevant' young adult novels (judging by the amount of complaining from my kids)
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There are certainly some very bad YA novels out there.
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Originally Posted by ekbell
Ideally children would be able to choose from a list of well-written books with a number of fiction and non-fiction genres for independent reading assignments to increase their chances of discovering the type of books that they like to read.
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Completely agree.
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Originally Posted by ekbell
BTW if the reason for assigning the books is to give the children common background knowledge then the books (or good adaptations) should be assigned as part of their history or other social studies courses where they will learn the context of the works.
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I think that would probably make more sense than the current practice. Especially if there were an
optional Classics class, for those who wanted to delve into such works more deeply.