Literature and Males
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I got to speak to a group of esteemed old boys from a NZ school today.
My starting point was a comment made by a Head of English at a boys school I was teaching at when she stated that the comparatively poor English results, compared to Science and Math were because; ” … they were boys”.
This was a part of my counter evidence:
Top 30 Books of BBC Readers
- The LOTR, JRR Tolkien
- Pride and Predudic, J Austen
- His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
- To Kill a Mocking Bird, Harper Lee
- Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
- Catch-22, Joseph Heller
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
- Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
- Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
- The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
- The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
- Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
- Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. Louisa de Bernieres
- War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
- Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, JK Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, JK Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, JK Rowling
- The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
- Middlemarch, George Eliot
- A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
- The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
- Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Alwyn Poole
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