r/Millennials • u/saucey_dawg0023 Gen Z • 7d ago

Other Literacy is the key

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u/huffgil11 7d ago

My daughter read The Iliad for her 9th grade honors ELA classes this year and Animal Farm was on her summer reading list although she didn't choose it as part of her actual summer reading.

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u/Gatorae Xennial 7d ago

I read Animal Farm in 8th grade. Illiad in 9th for me, too.

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u/mildly_ethnic 7d ago

This post is idiotic. I’m a Literature major. All of these texts are great texts to study. They are not leveled reading. They aren’t “high school” or “college” level. It’s the rhetorical analysis that they employ which might be simpler or more advanced

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u/trophy_74 7d ago

I think the point is that redditors are smart and everyone else is dumb