/lit/ - Literature

>be 12 grade english teacher, teaching 17 and 18 year olds
>week 1 of the school year
>mfw a third of my students are probably functionally illiterate
>mfw another third can't read anything more complicated than holes or harry potter
>mfw i learn i'm no longer allowed to give essay exams in the computer lab because most of the student body is unable to type over 40 words per minute and can't use microsoft office
>mfw administration is trying to convince us to let our students orate their essays as if they were fucking roman senators so text to speech software on the computers can transcribe everything
>mfw i heard one of the social studies teachers had to explain the concept of object permanence to his students
>mfw i've heard multiple stories this year already from elementary school teachers complaining about kindergartners and first graders that shit and piss themselves because they aren't toilet trained

>>17633902

books about why the world went mad?

>>15423895
You don't need a book for that.

People like to read stuff they can relate to, and the real world is more dystopian than utopian

Are there any good /lit/ online courses? I'm looking for something like a series of lectures where you'll read x pages of whatever assigned book and then there'll be a lecture discussing those pages, cultural impact of the book, influences, references, whatever, until the book / writer is done.

Preferably with books from or similar to some of the following writers
>Joyce
>DFW
>Mary Shelley
>Herman Melville
>Pynchon
>Poe
>You get the idea