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Texas Public School Students Will Be Required to Read the Bible
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" or example, 10th graders would read “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar” by William Shakespeare, and “The Inferno” by Dante Alighieri. Among other texts, they would also read the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I’ve Been to the Mountain Top” speech; Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem “The Raven”; Margaret Thatcher’s eulogy for Mr. Reagan; and an excerpt from the Book of Job."Texas Public School Students Will Be Required to Read the Bible
Texas passed what may be the first state-mandated book list for public school students. It focuses on classic literature and includes Bible excerpts.
For example, 10th graders would read “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar” by William Shakespeare, and “The Inferno” by Dante Alighieri. Among other texts, they would also read the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I’ve Been to the Mountain Top” speech; Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem “The Raven”; Margaret Thatcher’s eulogy for Mr. Reagan; and an excerpt from the Book of Job.
Students would be required to read a Bible excerpt at most grade levels, starting in elementary school.
Excerpts included “The Necessity of Humility” by the Gospel of Luke and “To Everything There is a Season” from the Book of Ecclesiastes. In middle and high school, Bible selections were included in thematic units along with a book. For example, the “Definition of Love,” from First Corinthians, would be taught alongside “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen in 12th grade.
Texas Public School Students Will Be Required to Read the Bible
Texas passed what may be the first state-mandated book list for public school students. It focuses on classic literature and includes Bible excerpts.www.nytimes.com
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Yakuda
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Good.Texas Public School Students Will Be Required to Read the Bible
Texas passed what may be the first state-mandated book list for public school students. It focuses on classic literature and includes Bible excerpts.
For example, 10th graders would read “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar” by William Shakespeare, and “The Inferno” by Dante Alighieri. Among other texts, they would also read the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I’ve Been to the Mountain Top” speech; Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem “The Raven”; Margaret Thatcher’s eulogy for Mr. Reagan; and an excerpt from the Book of Job.
Students would be required to read a Bible excerpt at most grade levels, starting in elementary school.
Excerpts included “The Necessity of Humility” by the Gospel of Luke and “To Everything There is a Season” from the Book of Ecclesiastes. In middle and high school, Bible selections were included in thematic units along with a book. For example, the “Definition of Love,” from First Corinthians, would be taught alongside “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen in 12th grade.
Texas Public School Students Will Be Required to Read the Bible
Texas passed what may be the first state-mandated book list for public school students. It focuses on classic literature and includes Bible excerpts.
I read the "Inferno" in school. I think it was a poor translation, because the prose was really bad. From Italian to English didn't serve a poem well.
Leftists like Cypress are book burners. They want to suppress, using force. any ideas that are contrary to their Marxist religion. The "Trials of Job" run contrary to the goals of the party.
Then what is the issue for you book burners?
Book burners?
Post #62.
Yep, it's what you are - the suppressors of knowledge that you fear. You Marxists are book burners.
I'll bite. What books am I burning? What books did I burn?
Sometimes you Marxists symbolically burn books by banning them - as you demand the Bible and the Torah be banned. You DO grasp that is what this thread is about, right? Your fellow Stalinists melting down because Texas allows high school students to read the "Trials of Job" - which is in the Bible.
Is teaching Quran to public school students acceptable in your view?
We already do that. Only the Bible is prohibited.
Where?