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Dec 15, 2015 10:07AM
I am looking for good books to read in class with my students (14-17 year-olds). They are not native speakers.
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There are endless options, even if you're focusing on classics only, it all depends on what you would like to discuss in class. For example, "The Catcher in the Rye" is a great book to discuss the bildungsroman genre and the post-war disaster there was in the United States during that time, whereas some novels by George Orwell are perfect choices when one wants to discuss politics and how politicians can manipulate data and control people's minds. What would you like to discuss in class?
Hi Yasmin,mine is not a proper literature course. What I am looking for are books with an accessible language first of all. In class we mainly discuss the plot and the characters. At the moment we are reading The Giver by Lois Lowry, last year I tries with Frankenstain, which was a success in terms of the issues it raised, but the language was sometimes too challenging.
At the beginning of the yeat we worked on some short stories by Poe and that was good too.
I'd recommend "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck and/or short stories by Shirley Jackson. "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding may be a little bit more challenging, but its vocabulary is fairly simple and the novel is great to discuss plot and character development. Also, "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" by John Boyne is both accessible and interesting for students. I'd stay away from writers like Ray Bradbury, whose novels tend to deal with a rather complex vocabulary and plot. Hope I was useful.
When I was in an English as a second language class, we read Animal Farm and Death of a Salesman. I'd also recommend Sad Monsters, which could be interesting as it is a series of very short humourous stories with different types of narration. The Ocean at the End of the Lane could be interesting too, and a great introduction to Neil Gaiman. I'd be interested to learn which books you pick and how the class liked them.
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