(25 May 2014, 11:21 am)Andreos Constantopolous wrote No idea to be honest.
Genuinely don't know whether changing them would achieve anything or make the students/pupils achieve anything other than what they would do with books on the current syllabus.
Gove wants us to study books by English authors, Shakespeare was English and although George Orwell was English (born in India or Africa), the classic used as part of the GCSE syllabus, is based on events in Russia.
What can a pupil learn in a book by an English author, that they cant from an American one like Steinbeck?
I wonder how many of the authors in the new list approved by Gove and his Tory colleagues have leftist leanings... As both JB Preistley (An Inspector Calls) Steinbeck and Orwell are both known to have had leftist views at various stages of their lives.
Would be interesting in what books they would read for their G.C.S.E's.
Made me watch clips of mice and men now!
I did not realize that John Malkovich was Lennie in it (1992 movie)