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Igel

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25. Houston Chronicle published a full list of readings.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Jun 29, 2026, 06:12 PM

16 hrs ago

Some of it's gonna hurt hard: Great Expectations?

Anthony Trollope is a strange choice, I'd think. Sort of nice to have the Mayflower Compact tossed in in 5th grade--I'm guessing some of the English readings align with the Social Studies curriculum. Even during my stint teaching, science was encouraged to provide readings for the corresponding ELA courses (tried it once, the teachers just stared--don't know what they wanted for juniors, physics was the junior grade science and it dealt with physics-relevant 'stuff'; then it turned out most never had physics and *they* couldn't understand it).

Anyway, the list:

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/2026/texas-schools-required-reading-list/?noapp=true&sid=&ss=P&st_rid=null

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