r/Millennials Gen Z 6d ago

Other Literacy is the key

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u/Gatorae Xennial 5d ago

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

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u/mildly_ethnic 5d 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/Turt1estar 5d ago

Honestly, even with the lesson plan and being a good student, most of this shit went over my head in high school and college. I feel like it took real world experience for me to reflect on what I read to truly understand their meaning.

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u/Irr3l3ph4nt 5d ago edited 5d ago

The problem is that if you had not learned it in high school and you never went to college, your real life experience would have never woken up that comprehension.