Making the Classics Interesting for the Students

I understand that a lot of students don't like the classics, and I feel that it is because of how teachers portray them and teach them. I do not feel that students will like the classics more if you bring technology into it. I feel that to get the students more into the classics, we need to sell the classics to them, and change up which classics we teach. Each year the same classics are taught in majority of the schools in the country. Those classics are generally, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Catcher and the Rye, The Scarlet Letter, Of Mice and Men, The Great Gatsby, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Lord of the Flies, and so on. I know from experience that there were two main reasons why I was not into reading those novels. One reason is because my teachers would say, we are going to read a great classic that your probably going to hate but we are going to read it anyway because it is a classic, and two was that when talking with my upper class friends they would talk about how horrible the book is and so on. I feel that for starters, teachers need to encourage their students to read the book, not tell them that they're going to hate it but either way they're reading it. Two is that I feel that we need to change up which classics we read in schools. No, I do not think books like Harry Potter and The Hunger Games should replace classics in the class room. However, there are a whole lot more then 8 phenomenal classic books in this world that can and should be taught to our students. For instance, how about instead of teaching the exact same books every year for each grade level, we have a rotating cycle that last say 5 years, and then restarts its cycle. I will use Senior English classes as an example. We can say that in 2012 the seniors will all read The Catcher and the Rye (I used this book because it was the one I read senior year), then the 2013 seniors will read Gone with the Wind, the seniors of 2014 can read Dracula, the seniors of 2015 can read Jane Eyre, and the Seniors of 2016 can read Heart of Darkness, then the cycle restarts. Each grade will have a different cycle of books so that there is no chance of students re-reading any book. I feel this would work because one, the students would not have their older friends discouraging them about a book because they did not read it, two it would introduce the students to a larger variety of classics because when talking to their friends in lower or higher classes they will hear about what they are reading and possibly become interesting, and three it would help the teachers. I see it helping the teachers because it is obvious that after five, eight, ten years, the teachers become quite exhausted from teaching the exact same books in four classes a year. If we change up which classic they are teaching then they will be much more excited and will encourage the students more. Plus, when doing projects involved with the novels the students will become more creative because they will not ask the upper class friends what their project was and then duplicate it. They will have to come up with their own project.