Recently I have been giving a few middle and high school students advice for their English language arts classes. Students are reading more difficult texts to beef up their comprehension and writing skills. By this I mean seventh graders are being forced to endure Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron,” which reads like it was written by someone on LSD.
Just say no to drugs and alcohol, kids, unless you want to become a famous writer taught in schools like Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Tennessee Williams, Dylan Thomas, William S. Burroughs…
Anyway.