I had a brilliant English writing composition teacher in high school (1978) and she was adamant about the students learning how to outline essays and paragraphs. I have used those writing tools my whole adult life. I wonder if that is even taught anymore.
I don’t know if any of my classmates benefited in the least from slogging through Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Moby Dick.
The high school kids of today deserve better. Things like most any of Sinclair Lewis’s work, F Scott Fitzgerald, and why not? Catch-22.