danana
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Post by danana on Feb 4, 2008 20:06:12 GMT -5
I'm a junior in high school so I will probably encounter some more memorable books, but so far here are the books that I have enjoyed:
-All Quiet on the Western Front- Erich Maria Remarque -Macbeth- William Shakespeare -Siddhartha- Herman Hesse -Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury -Brave New World- Aldous Huxley -Animal Farm- George Orwell -The Scarlet Pimpernel- The Baroness Orczy -Mother Night- Kurt Vonnegut -Slaughter-house-five- Kurt Vonnegut -Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close- Jonathan Safran Foer -Night- Elie Wiesel -The Glass Castle- Jeannette Walls -The Importance of Being Earnest- Oscar Wilde -Cyrano de Bergerac- Edmond Rostand -The Red Tent- Anita Diamant
These are the books I read in middle school that I still love:
-The Outsiders- S.E. Hinton -Inherit the Wind- Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee -The Giver- Lois Lowry
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danana
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Post by danana on Feb 4, 2008 20:13:50 GMT -5
There are two other books I would like to mention that weren't so much fun as they were interesting to read.
-The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness by Simon Wiesenthal
This was a REALLY interesting book. The first third is Simon Wiesenthal's description of his life in a Nazi concentration camp. During his imprisonment he is asked forgiveness by a dying SS officer. Wiesenthal says nothing, but wonders if he does the right thing. Then he asks 53 other people what they would have done in his place, and their answers make up 2/3 of the rest of the book. Some of these people are genocide victims from Bosnia and China, Holocaust survivors, the Dalai Lama, Cardinal Konig, Primo Levi, writers, human rights activists, and many more. Not all of them completely answer the question, and I liked Wiesenthal's part of the book the most. Either way I would really recommend this- I think it is a very important book. I'm still not sure what I would have done in his place though.
-Prisons We Choose to Live Inside by Doris Lessing
This book was also very interesting. I liked it less than The Sunflower, but it had some good essays. She recently won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Post by bookaddict on Feb 4, 2008 20:20:09 GMT -5
I also read Night in high school, that was a great read.
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danana
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Post by danana on Feb 4, 2008 23:01:40 GMT -5
I also read Night in high school, that was a great read. Yeah it was a great book! I love Elie Wiesel.
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Isa
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Post by Isa on Feb 5, 2008 8:38:56 GMT -5
Have you guys read "Dawn" or "Day" by Elie Wiesel?
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Kristie
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Post by Kristie on Feb 5, 2008 11:58:18 GMT -5
O I forgot to put Night on my list of books. I read it in 7th grade and then again in 10th. I really love it.
Isa, I haven't read either of those, but one of my younger sisters read Dawn and I don't think she liked it as much as Night.
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Michelle
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Post by Michelle on Feb 6, 2008 13:09:48 GMT -5
O I forgot to put Night on my list of books. I read it in 7th grade and then again in 10th. I really love it. I forgot it on my list, too. I read it in 9th grade.
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sarah23
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Post by sarah23 on Feb 10, 2008 16:08:01 GMT -5
1984, In the Time of the Butterflies, The Crucible, The Outsiders, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, The Bean Trees, The Odyssey, and we currently started with The Great Gatsby..
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mv
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Post by mv on Feb 16, 2008 21:44:10 GMT -5
Definitely Anna Karenina and Diary of Anne Frank.
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Kristie
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Post by Kristie on Feb 17, 2008 16:39:29 GMT -5
I think a lot of people in my school read Catch 22 and I've been wanting to read it lately. I don't know why I never had to read it, but o well.
I just remembered that I read a couple books that I picked out of a list for school: Count of Monte Cristo which I skipped part of (the middle 1/3 of it) and then reread it in its entirety since I liked the ending so much; and a book called Star of Peace. I don't remember what it was really about aside from a passenger ship that was trying to let people (I think Jews) off in America during WWII when America had shut it's doors to refugees (I didn't like the book much).
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Post by bookaddict on Feb 17, 2008 17:18:08 GMT -5
I know my high school it took us forever to read a book, because we read them in class together. I wish we would of had a better education system. We should have read them at home, been quizzed and had more discussions in class. I know in grade 10 we read "To Kill A Mocking Bird", and "The Pearl" and that was it. 2 books for the year...Now, that I think of it, I think that's horrible.
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Paige
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Post by Paige on Feb 17, 2008 17:36:19 GMT -5
We never read many books in high school either bookaddict, but I do believe we read more than 2. Usually we read 4 books a year (sometimes on our own and sometimes as a class) and did some sort of report over them. Then we'd occasionally read other shorter works in class. Compared to some of the lists on here, I feel like I didn't have to read anything in high school!
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Michelle
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Post by Michelle on Feb 17, 2008 17:39:14 GMT -5
I always thought that as well. The only class that I read a decent amount of books in was AP English. But then I saw Ben try to teach books to high school kids. Admittedly, Florida does not have the best school system, but he couldn't get the kids to read hardly anything at home and ended up reading it in class just to make sure people read. He did have his honors kids read an extra book at home, but for the most part he had to go slowly to make sure that everyone was doing it. After seeing him struggle, I understand a little more why we read so slowly. It's just a problem you have when classes are not equal.
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Post by bookaddict on Feb 17, 2008 19:28:26 GMT -5
I understand that it has to be so frustrating as a teacher. Parents need to show interest in their child's school. Teachers can only do so much. Many kids don't have any books at home, or their parents never read to them. I always had tons of books at home, and I loved reading. Parents rely on the TV to occupy their child.
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cauthoncrazy
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Post by cauthoncrazy on Feb 19, 2008 13:19:59 GMT -5
Ooh for some reason I seem to remember most of these. I read a LOT once I went into private school...
East of Eden (read for a project) Mountains Beyond Mountains (required summer reading) The Unbearable Lightness of Being (if only because I didn't like it or the film) A Portrait of the artist as a young man (best book I read in high school, loved it, love Joyce can't wait to read more) Wuthering Heights (12th grade)
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