What did your high school consider essential literature?
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Romeo and Juliet
To Kill a Mockingbird
Beowolf
Catcher in the Rye
The Canterbury Tales
The Outsiders
Adventures of Huck Finn
Macbeth
Pigman
Call of the wild
Death of a Salesman
The Crucible
about to start The Scarlett Letter
im in the 12th grade, our english teacher doesn't think we can read alot of books, but shes so dumb its sad, she treats us like 2 year olds. when we were reading macbeth she would sit there and read whole acts from the thing
To Kill a Mockingbird
Beowolf
Catcher in the Rye
The Canterbury Tales
The Outsiders
Adventures of Huck Finn
Macbeth
Pigman
Call of the wild
Death of a Salesman
The Crucible
about to start The Scarlett Letter
im in the 12th grade, our english teacher doesn't think we can read alot of books, but shes so dumb its sad, she treats us like 2 year olds. when we were reading macbeth she would sit there and read whole acts from the thing
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From: Toledo, Ohio
My favorites in Junior High were:
Johnny Tremain and
The Count of Monte Cristo
In High School:
To Kill A Mockingbird
In college:
Carrie (Yes, the Stephen King book. My English Comp II class was all horror books and short stories)
Some required reads I hated:
Jane Eyre and
The Scarlett Letter
Johnny Tremain and
The Count of Monte Cristo
In High School:
To Kill A Mockingbird
In college:
Carrie (Yes, the Stephen King book. My English Comp II class was all horror books and short stories)
Some required reads I hated:
Jane Eyre and
The Scarlett Letter
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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
Shakespear blows to read it, but seeing a well made movie of it is cool, after all they weren't written to be read
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Let's see Books I read from 10th to 12th grade (anything before that was pretty terrible choices anyhow):
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Beowulf
Excerpts from The Canterbury Tales
MacBeth
Julius Caesar
The Great Gatsby
The Catcher in the Rye
Huckleberry Finn
Excerpts from "Moby Dick"
The Sea Wolf (read on my own for a book analysis)
No Exit
The Plague
Native Son
The Death of Ivan Illyich
Othello
Madame Bovary
We also watched a few film versions of various works "12th Night", "Romeo and Juliet", "Man of La Mancha", "Tess of the D'urbervilles", "King Lear"
Probably some other works but I can't remember right now. Of all these my favorites would surely be Fellowship of the Ring, Macbeth, No Exit, The Sea Wolf, and The Death of Ivan Illyich
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Beowulf
Excerpts from The Canterbury Tales
MacBeth
Julius Caesar
The Great Gatsby
The Catcher in the Rye
Huckleberry Finn
Excerpts from "Moby Dick"
The Sea Wolf (read on my own for a book analysis)
No Exit
The Plague
Native Son
The Death of Ivan Illyich
Othello
Madame Bovary
We also watched a few film versions of various works "12th Night", "Romeo and Juliet", "Man of La Mancha", "Tess of the D'urbervilles", "King Lear"
Probably some other works but I can't remember right now. Of all these my favorites would surely be Fellowship of the Ring, Macbeth, No Exit, The Sea Wolf, and The Death of Ivan Illyich
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I can't really recall any of the titles that were assigned reading, but quite a few of them I had already read before they were assigned. I do remember being able to pick books for quite a few book reports, though
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I had to read two of the worst books ever written. The Return of the Native and Silas Marner.
Also read Farenheit 451 and the Great Gatsby. 451 was okay, and at least Gatsby was short.
Read Dante's Inferno on my own, as well as LOTR and a lot of sci-fi.
Also read Farenheit 451 and the Great Gatsby. 451 was okay, and at least Gatsby was short.
Read Dante's Inferno on my own, as well as LOTR and a lot of sci-fi.




