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I hate to say it, but the only book I remember reading in high school for English class was Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. Wait, That was for history. Honestly, we didn't spend much time reading novels. We spent most of our time on poems, forms of writing, style, grammar and the like. I wrote soooooo much.
When I was a senior, I took two independent studies with my english teacher. One was as a TA(grading papers), and the other was a concentrated focus on Arthurian literature. Tennyson's Idylls of the King, La Chanson De Roland(the song of roland), A few books about chivalry. An epic poem about Charlemagne. Wasn't a focus, just something I was interested in. I did more reading that semester than I had done the previous three years. robyn |
Damned if I can remember, I graduated thirty years ago
(class of '71). I can barely remember attending high school, much less what books we read. ;) |
Originally posted by evenflowddt I am a junior in high school. We read: Freshman year Antigone Inherit the Wind To kill a Mockingbird Romeo and Juliet Soph year All Quiet on the Western Front The Good Earth The Pearl Cyrano de Bergerac Julius Caesar To Kill a Mockingbird(again!,I changed schools after my frosh year) Junior Year The Great Gatsby The Grapes of Wrath The Crucible A bunch of Edgar Allen Poe's poems including The Fall of the House of Usher and... The Raven Best books I've read in high school: Great Gatsby and All quiet on the western Front Worst: Antigone [Edited by evenflowddt on 05-01-01 at 04:09 PM] OK is it me or are the ravens named after a great poet's work, but a drug addict as well? no offense to the dead. |
Some things I remember reading (and not on my own time or for book reports -- assigned) that aren't on anyone's list:
Les Miserables Oedipus Rex Electra A Clockwork Orange Fountainhead Atlas Shrugged Treasure Island Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court The Last of The Mohicans The Deerslayer The Hobbit Lord of the Rings On the Road Canterbury Tales The complete, unabridged Iliad and Odyssey Rendezvous with Rama Ender's Game Dune Neuromancer I was in advanced classes all through high school, so we got assigned a lot of reading on top of the state recommended readings, which have all been mentioned above. We also had a couple of creative teachers that assigned odd, interesting things like "A Clockwork Orange" and other contemporary literature. ...damn, forgot Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained and Brave New World. |
Originally posted by skythemike My 9th grade honours English class had 1984 as one of the numerous books we cycled through. Each book in that class had a oral summary of a point from the book (everybody had to summarize some points out loud), an exam, and a report or project. For "1984", she had us build, construct, model, or otherwise create some sort of physical object from the book. I think she intended for everyone to just make big charts or dioramas. Most people made big charts showing interrelationships between certain subjects from the book. A few people made some really weird salt+sugar 3D relief maps (must not have been a random idea since some students ran out of ideas on what to do and just copied each others style which was okay as long as the content was different). Ron build the lighthouse tower in which one of the book's famous protagonists hanged himself... I read them both and considered 1984 far more superior. I was VERY depressed with 1984 as the "negative utopia" but thought that Huxley's new world to be somewhat better than this one. Poll: Which did you like better, 1984 or Brave New World -sky [/B][/QUOTE] I too thought he is mixing them up. ON the other hand, I found <u>Brave New World</u> to be far superior. |
Originally posted by einTier Some things I remember reading (and not on my own time or for book reports -- assigned) that aren't on anyone's list: Les Miserables Oedipus Rex Electra A Clockwork Orange Fountainhead Atlas Shrugged Treasure Island Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court The Last of The Mohicans The Deerslayer The Hobbit Lord of the Rings On the Road Canterbury Tales The complete, unabridged Iliad and Odyssey Rendezvous with Rama Ender's Game Dune Neuromancer I was in advanced classes all through high school, so we got assigned a lot of reading on top of the state recommended readings, which have all been mentioned above. We also had a couple of creative teachers that assigned odd, interesting things like "A Clockwork Orange" and other contemporary literature. ...damn, forgot Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained and Brave New World. |
Originally posted by skythemike [Poll: Which did you like better, 1984 or Brave New World -sky [/B] I'm actually in HS now (Yes, I'm young :)) and we've read: 1984 Brave New World Of Mice and Men Things Fall Apart Oliver Twist Romeo and Juliet Last year: Animal Farm To Kill A Mockingbird |
Books You Were Required to Read In School...
...beit it junior high, high school, college, whatever that you really enjoyed. What comes to mind looking back now?
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Watership Down
Crime and Punishment Tom Sawyer |
A Separate Peace
Of Mice and Men Grapes of Wraith To Kill A Mockingbird The Outsiders Unfortunately not enough books I liked. Half the books were Shakespeare and I never read any of them. Thank god for Cliff's Notes. |
Grapes of Wrath
The Great Gatsby Short stories by Flannery O'Conner Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Wise Blood The Heart of the Matter |
I rarely enjoyed the required readings
Shakespear blows to read it, but seeing a well made movie of it is cool, after all they weren't written to be read but I did enjoy <u>Lord of the Flies</u>, required senior year, and <u>One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest</u> was also decent that year |
A couple that I was required to read in college that I was pleasantly surprised to have enjoyed:
Awakening by Kate Chopin Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston |
Return of the Native
Silas Marner A Tale of Two Cities Several Shakespeare plays Horton Hears a Who |
Richard Brautigan's In Watermelon Sugar
Salinger's Franny and Zooey Vonnegut's Welcome to the Moneky House all in high school. |
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Catcher In the Rye
April Morning Pigman If I had to take a quiz on any of these books, I'd get a 0. I don't remember a thing about them, only that I enjoyed them. |
The Jungle
The Grapes of Wrath To Kill a Mocking Bird |
In Jr. High we had to read To Kill A Mockingbird.
In High School it was: A Seperate Peace Farenheit 451 To Kill A Mockingbird Julius Caesar Great Gatsby |
A bunch. I can't come close to remembering them all. These are in no order at all, and I read them in all different grades (like 7th to 12th):
Beloved Their Eyes Were Watching God Heart of Darkness The Iliad The Odyssey A Light in August Lincoln Fahrenheit 451 The Great Gatsby Huck Finn The Killer Angels The Red Badge of Courage Great Expectations Genesis (as in, "The book of...") Mythology (Hamilton) Madame Bovary A Separate Peace Several Shakespearean plays (5-6) To Kill a Mockingbird A Tale of Two Cities Catcher in the Rye Crime and Punishment The Scarlett Letter Beowulf The Canterbury Tales and on and on and on... Also, this was in a public school, for the record. |
The Chrysalids
Lord of the Flies |
Originally posted by mikehunt Shakespear blows to read it, but seeing a well made movie of it is cool, after all they weren't written to be read What I Liked of course, 1984 Animal Farm Brave New World The Count of Monte Cristo Heart of Darkness Invisible Man The Return of the Native Wuthering Heights |
Originally posted by Charlie Goose Horton Hears a Who Let's see if I can remember some of the ones I had to read: Of Mice and Men Romeo and Juliet To Kill a Mockingbird Beowolf The Moon is Down The Postman (yes, the one Kevin Costner made into a movie) The Great Gatsby (the single most boring book I've ever read) Tom Sawyer Catcher in the Rye The Canterbury Tales The Chocolate War And in Elementary school we were subjected to a multi-week course on Tall Tales, so I've read almost all the tall tales out there: Pecos Bill Paul Bunyan Johnny Appleseed John Henry etc. etc. |
We had a lot of required reading, but the ones that stick out in my mind the most is Of Mice and Men and Grapes of Wrath.
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Books I really enjoyed:
Pride and Prejudice (heaven on earth :) ), Crime and Punishment, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Great Expectations, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Handmaid's Tale, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies and To Kill a Mockingbird. Oh, also really liked Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and other epic poems. Books that were tough to get through but I enjoyed anyway: Illiad, Odyssey Books I read on my own and loved that most people had assigned: 1984 and Catcher in the Rye Books I was forced to read that I hated: Moby Dick (most boring-a$$ book I've ever read - I mean really, who needs to read 2 chapters on whale blubber and 4 on types of sails?!?), A Red Badge of Courage (boring, completely boring), Canturbury Tales (hated the old english, but the story was fine) For the most part I enjoyed almost everything I read - my teachers had pretty good taste except one, who made me read all three of the books listed above. These books are classics for a reason (for the most part). :) |
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