https://hechingerreport.org/teacher-voice-big-mistake-schools-are-swapping-out-shakespeare-chaucer-and-dickens-for-kendrick-lamar-and-taylor-swift/ Covering Innovation & Inequality in Education Mon, 16 Sep 2024 17:25:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://hechingerreport.org/teacher-voice-big-mistake-schools-are-swapping-out-shakespeare-chaucer-and-dickens-for-kendrick-lamar-and-taylor-swift/comment-page-1/#comment-78682 Thu, 12 Sep 2024 11:36:02 +0000 https://hechingerreport.org/?p=103181#comment-78682 One assignment of analyzing artists you don’t like, isn’t taking away from famous authors. My former English teacher had us dissect Dead or Alive by Bon Jovi and some other songs. That was really hard for me as I’m literal and not good at symbolism. We learned how to try to use context clues and read between the lines to see what the artist was saying. This is good practice and is easier to do on songs as they are modern, compared to Shakespeare. That didn’t mean we didn’t look at novels either. If the whole year is spent looking at song lyrics, then there’s a problem. One unit or assignment isn’t an issue. We didn’t leave class thinking our teacher was praising artists as “literary greats.”

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