Top Ten Tuesday: Modern Titles to Pair with Classics
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not a huge fan of classic literature read in high school – I think it’s difficult to teach, it’s difficult to connect to students’ lives and it’s often filled with a lot of old/dead white men. So, this Top Ten Tuesday is devoted to titles that can be paired with classic literature selected in high school for a even more enhanced learning experience.
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great by Sara Benincasa - The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Monster by Walter Dean Myers - The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Looking for Alaska by John Green - Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins - 1984 by George Orwell
Little Brother by Cory Doctrow - Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Steep and Thorny Way by Cat Winters - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Giver by Lois Lowry - The Odyssey by Homer
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin - Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by The Broke and the Book
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Satou Johns
Brave New World vs The Giver, I know this is not a “vs” but I do see the value of having the giver. I think it is not exactly for kids, as it is supposed to be, but it has a great discourse and an amazing criticism toward this society.
I think, that it deals more with the idea of the utopias as in the transcendentalism movement. So even though it is a more resent or modern book, it falls on that same ideas and ideology. Proving that they simple do not exist or unable to be sustained.
(I love classic literature hehe)
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