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Tracing My Formative Literary Experience: An Examination of the High School Canon through To Kill a Mockingbird and Catcher in the Rye
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Schlesinger, Lee A.
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Spring 2020
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2020
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An investigation the origins of the contemporary high school canon using personal experiences and anecdotes, historical data, and literary analysis. Using To Kill a Mockingbird and Catcher in the Rye as prime examples, this paper examines the literary elements that make these and other novels effective classroom material. Additionally, this paper looks at the peripheral effects of teaching the two novels across such wide and impressionable audience, including their history with censorship and their role in a diversifying curriculum.
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