Grrr.

[valancy_s]

Bother. I had been planning to use the same syllabus as I taught this fall in my spring section of Freshman English, same texts and all. And now, having looked at my roster and discovered my class is more than half boys, and almost all students in the sciences, I'm wondering if I'd be sadistic (or would it be masochistic?) to try and teach Pride

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[steve_mollmann]

Dare I say it, but The War of the Worlds?

[valancy_s]

Ha! I did think of that, actually. (How could I not?) Though it's not so much gender-neutral as a boy thing... not that that's bad, exactly. More problematically, I haven't seen or read any of the adaptations, so it would mean a lot of extra work for me!

[steve_mollmann]

There's lots for girls to like in The War of the Worlds! The narrator's wife very nearly gets a line of dialogue at the end, I think.

There's also The Wizard of Oz, if we want to mention another of my obsessions.

[tinuviellen]

Ooooh, good one, the Wizard of Oz. How about Alice in Wonderland, if we're going along that vein?

[valancy_s]

The Wizard of Oz is a good option; in fact, I had students write about both that and Alice for the "chose your own adapted classic" assignment this past semester. Let's see... there's the classic movie, Tin Man, The Wiz (not that I've seen either of those two). Too bad there's no movie of Wicked. Am I missing anything?

ETA: Have you read Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Steve? If so, is it any good?

[steve_mollmann]

Return to Oz, depending on how far out you want to go. Oh, and The Muppet Wizard of Oz. Wiki has a pretty comprehensive list.

I have indeed. I remember liking it, but it was a while back.