After writing on the Archpriest of Hita and how well it is spent my students of compulsory reading, or remembering how to enjoy the 2 º to the tournament which ends the Poema de Mio Cid , or the second chapter of Quijote (the encounter with the hookers, the time you have to give to drink through a straw), I and I find this article Rosa Montero, cursing the current curriculum English literature in secondary and high school. Please click and read.
Already? Then I comment what I believe. The Montero is partly right and partly not. In 4 of the ESO, with The Regent , after reading Chapters 27 and 28 and see the extract in the series, some kids are left wanting to know more (if "wrapped" with the priest or Messiah) . I leave with the win, but I tell them not to mind read the book, because besides being "the greatest", may die in the attempt. Also, when I put them as reading raised Baroja The search (for the roll that it is a novel of initiation, with a young player like them and because they come from Madrid streets and places they know), I rejected the idea. If not I could finish the book, imagine them. Neither seems to get me to read them Galdós, or force them to demolish The whole life is a dream.
But there are classics and classics. Clearly the whole Quixote may be a brick, but some selected chapters, placing them in history, and read aloud, I guarantee one or two classes as fun. Of course, first you have to put in a situation: imagine, kid, tomorrow appears in your partner school Pepito robes, round glasses and a wand, and I called Dumbledore and beginning to rely patronus like crazy. Well, that's the Quijote. "Look, look, how you talk to the" maids ", if they are whores!". Sure, you have to be you who read it the first time, and have tried reading before, because being a teacher of literature is also an actor, and because things are better understood when you count them that when you have to read, and cold. And then, boy, laughs are guaranteed.
And the same with almost all medieval literature. What is foreign to them? Not so much: once the Castilian is adapted medieval literature comes much better than many moderneces. If children are old ones! And just basic public that medieval people, eager to go to hear the minstrel turn. But then, again, the bard have to be you, as a teacher. The defeat of the Counts of Carrion in Cid love it because it becomes gore gore (tunic and shirt, his hauberk he came in the flesh, through the mouth much blood came out. ") The filth of the Book of Good Love , with outlets such as mountain, even more so. Or whores La Celestina Melibea putting green ("tits is whether hobiese calved three times). Or the first treaty Lazarillo, the kids of 2 and 3 of ESO eat up without problems, and do not see how they enjoy when the blind is stamped against the stone post. O's monologue Neo / Sigismund, who is pure baroque version Matrix and rhymes. O Lorca's The Shoemaker , that 1 of the ESO is a success. O Becquer's poems, which read only copy in their folders and notebooks, and passed in little notes. Damn, I was a child until she caught me in class to mourn Becquer. Bricks "classic? Man, you need to know to choose. That's why we have freedom to teach the teachers. And yes, there is a resume, but one can always ignore certain things and stop more in others. What Becquer you cry? Well you going to know, three weeks reading the Rhymes. And if need be, we all cried.
Then there are the required readings. And yes there is no mercy or respect that are worth to the classics. That for that is the great Laura Gallego and Idhún Memories (or Wings of Fire: cool), or Elvira Lindo with Manolito Gafotas and The other quarter or Getafe's trilogy of Lorenzo Silva. But watch out! also Pride and Prejudice (which I've read on the recommendation of a student!), or a good adaptation of the Odyssey or Romeo and Juliet (after having seen Shakespeare in Love , of \u200b\u200bcourse), or The Thousand and One Nights .
the end, I think the problem is not that the classics are a brick. The problem is that they have too much respect. The classics tend to be classics because they have many readings. And with no kids need to feel a blasphemer if we stay in the surface layer, where the most fun. There is no greater sin than the false transcendence, a transcendence that these classics have been given the time and literary criticism, but I think it was never intended by those writers who they wanted to entertain his readers, and little else.
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