I took my daughter to enroll for college today

[Horse with no Name]

and I have a feeling she is going to love her English class.
It's the first time I have seen the required reading she was assigned.
"1984". Sounds like she has a liberal professor.
She should enjoy this.

[FreedomAngel82]

1. Awesome

I haven't read "1984" (want to though) and it looks like a great and scary book.

[PowerToThePeople]

10. here ya go

http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/

[rocktivity]

2. College is as much a rite of passage for the parents as the children.

My oldest sister didn't leave home for college, but I did. And I remember as if it were yesterday that awkward moment when my parents realized it was time to leave me alone to my young adulthood, and the parents of my future classmates knew it as well. We were all saying goodbye to the end of a phase in our lives.


rocknation

[FairGame]

17. A year from now and we are empty nestors, just hitting 50 too.

[jojo54]

3. Oh yeah, sounds like a great class to me.

I haven't read the book in a long time. Hub and I were just telling our 23 yr old daughter about it last night and it made me want to read it again.

...and Lord of the Flies.

[FreedomAngel82]

6. That's a good book

We read that in twelfth grade English (Lord of the Flies).

[karlrschneider]

4. I read it in 11th grade Honors English...and Ulysses as well. And Catcher

in the Rye! Plus Plato's Republic (wish I could locate my lost copy of that...)
:eyes:

[Tux]

5. Recommend her

To read Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.

[Horse with no Name]

7. She actually enrolled for this English class last semester

and that was the required reading for that class.
She overloaded herself and dropped it--that's why she is picking it up in the summer.
Is it something I would enjoy?

[Tux]

8. Oh yes

Basicly, imagine a world so anti-intellectual that books were banned. If found, the books were burned along with the house they were foud in and the owner arrested for "re-education" as it were.

[Horse with no Name]

9. I guess I will go raid her bookshelf

lol. Thanks for the suggestion.

[Tux]

18. Also

There is a 50th anniversary version of it. It won a national Book award too.

[Swamp Rat]

12. It is a "must read."

We are close to actually living "1984" right now. You will see...

[BeHereNow]

11. Animal Farm- Must read companion to 1984

My kid read both of them and I am marveling at
how she has commented on and connected the
analogies to our current political atmosphere.
Books are our friends...too bad freepers can't read.
Maybe if they could, they would better comprehend
what is happening.
BHN

[tenshi816]

25. My 13-year old read Animal Farm for his English class

this year and loved it, talking about it for weeks. He's now reading 1984 on his own because of it. You're right, I think it's good to read both books and then compare them to the current political situation. We're in the UK and don't face the ongoing erosion of civil liberties that is happening in the States, but my children have dual British-American citizenship and reading these two novels has really made my son start looking far more closely at what's happening in the US.

[kineneb]

13. I hated H.S. English classes

and refused to do the writing assignments, but I read most of those novels in HS for fun, along with Silent Spring, A Sand County Almanac, and The Limits to Growth. And for sheer masochism, several years ago I read Also Sprach Zarathustra in German for background on the Richard Strauss piece of the same name.

[pstans]

14. Garrison Keillor said

in his book, Homegrown Democrat, when talking about Liberals not having think tanks like Conservative do. "We have think tanks, they are called Universities."

I hope she enjoys it!

[American in Asia]

15. My 10th grader's assigned reading this past school year

included:

1984
Animal Farm
The Ugly American


Not bad, huh? I guess there are some benefits to going to an overseas American school!

[FairGame]

16. My Sr. son read that a year ago and loved it. Good news for you congrats.

[fujiyama]

19. Cool

I actually read "1984" on my own. My friends had been assigned the reading and I heard them talking about it. They had a great liberal HS teacher (a class I wish I had taken) that assigned Chomsky and other such authers.

That book would actually be very useful if taught in a political science class. The parallels to modern day are creepy.

[Carla in Ca]

20. Brave New World is a great book, as well

Oh, and if you like science fiction, The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury is also a wonderful book.

[fujiyama]

21. I was meaning to read Brave New world

Gotta pick that one up sometime.

[Carla in Ca]

22. You won't be sorry, I promise

happy reading!:-)

[fujiyama]

23. Love the sign

Especially after today's incident.

[Carla in Ca]

24. Yes, it is honor of his fall

Now, if only we can get him to take the 'big' fall, right?