Greetings!
My son is in high school (in Massachusetts, about 25 miles from Boston) and
I hope will take AP English next year. I e-mailed our high school's AP
English teacher, who responded as follows:
"My list includes Toni Morrison, James Joyce, Tolstoy, Anne Tyler, Albert
Camus, Zora Hurston, Kate Chopin, Synge, Conrad, Ibsen and that's only the
novels. The poetry is an anthology that is quite inclusive. I am always
looking for new titles if you have any suggestions."
So if list members have suggestions, I'd be happy to pass them on to her.
Regards,
Anne McAuliffe
Hamell601@aol.com; (978) 897-4566
McAuliffe@edc.org; (617) 618-2402
Responding to Julian Weissglass <weissgla@math.ucsb.edu> who wrote:
I went to Open House at my son's high school last night. I met
excellent teachers who are doing a good job. However, as usual, I
found the English curriculum to be severely lacking, even shameful.
In my son's Advanced Placement English course, there is not a single
major work by an author of color or by a women, not even by a US
author! This is shameful. The students are the future leaders of
our society and in this Advanced Placement course, they do not
receive any information about the point of view of authors of color,
or women. How can they possibly understand (if they are White) how
racism affects our society?.............................
Sincerely,
Julian Weissglass
Director, National Coalition for Equity in Education
(http://www.math.ucsb.edu/NCEE)
CECIMS/MATH
University of California, Santa Barbara, Ca 93106
Phone: 805-893-7722
Fax: 805-893-2190
email: weissgla@math.ucsb.edu
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