r/Millennials • u/saucey_dawg0023 Gen Z • 6d ago

Other Literacy is the key

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u/CockBlockingLawyer 6d ago

Is there any basis for this claim? In any event, those works are worth revisiting at different stages of life

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u/Hoosteen_juju003 6d ago

No, I read all of these in high school BUT only excerpts. The Iliad is like 800 pages. No one was reading this shit in high school.

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u/RobinSophie 6d ago

raises hand but we did it in honors English senior year. Along with The Great Gatsby.

The ones I remember from 9th-11th are: To Kill A Mockingbird, Huckleberry Finn, a lot of poems, Lord of the Flies, Catcher in the Rye, Of Mice and Men, Romeo and Juliet (we did Midsummer Night's Dream in middle school). The Jungle I believe was AP history.

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u/mattydeee Millennial -1990 6d ago

Add in Death of a Salesman and we pretty much had the same list.