sagedautumn
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Post by sagedautumn on Feb 19, 2008 13:27:48 GMT -5
Oh, I had to read A Separate Peace(9th Grade) Ninth grade, by far had the best reading... Most of the other ones weren't really fun to read!
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thenephilim
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Post by thenephilim on Feb 28, 2008 1:23:01 GMT -5
9th Grade: -Of Mice and Men -A Raisin in the Sun -To Kill a Mockingbird -Romeo and Juliet -A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (individual assignment)
10th Grade: -Huck Finn -The Greatest Generation -The Taming of the Shrew -The Importance of Being Earnest -Our Town
11th Grade: -Macbeth -Canterbury Tales -Beowulf -Lots of British poetry/short stories
12th Grade: -Jane Eyre -1984 -Grapes of Wrath -Frankenstein -The Things They Carried -The Color Purple -Slaughterhouse Five -The Great Gatsby -Hamlet -The Glass Menagerie -Death of a Salesman -A Doll's House -Lots of poetry and short stories
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Isa
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Post by Isa on Feb 28, 2008 8:14:08 GMT -5
Wow, very cool list!
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thenephilim
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Post by thenephilim on Feb 28, 2008 15:44:06 GMT -5
Yeah, I actually liked pretty much all of the books I had to read in high school. I miss reading that much though.
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Post by mockingbrid on Feb 28, 2008 17:08:36 GMT -5
well, this is so far...
Animal Farm Night Romeo and Juliet Deathwatch Cyrano de Bergerac A Tale of Two Cities Lord of the Flies Julius Caesar Antigone To Kill A Mockingbird The Great Gatsby A Separate Peace The Joy Luck Club The Catcher in the Rye O Pioneers!
I know I will have to read The Scarlet Letter, Macbeth and A Raisin in the Sun before I graduate, among others.
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Post by whitegold on Feb 29, 2008 20:12:11 GMT -5
The Giver The Outsiders To Kill a Mockingbird Lord of the Flies 1984
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lindsay
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"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us." - Franz Kafka
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Post by lindsay on Mar 4, 2008 16:48:41 GMT -5
I did read some of the books mentioned on earlier posts but in my highschool Canadian lit was really pushed so I had to read things like A Handmaids Tale by Margarete Attwood and The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje. We also did ALOT of Shakespeare.
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emu
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Post by emu on Mar 4, 2008 20:06:23 GMT -5
To Kill a Mockingbird Emma Madame Bovary Washington Square Lord of the Flies Animal Farm 1984 Brave New World (don't think this a set text but sought out after reading 1984) Clockwork Orange (actually this one on brother school's reading list not ours but we tended to swap books with them a lot) The Cay MacBeth Julius Caesar Measure for Measure (thought it so unfair that friends at other schools studying King Lear while we had to do this Shakespeare) Tirra Lirra by the River (about the only Australian novel I remember studying at high school!) The Crucible The Plague (most vivid memory of this is of someone shelling peas into a pan!) Great Gatsby (this was what friends at another school were reading instead of the Plague - I was so jealous!) The Power and the Glory (how I loathed this!) John Brown Rose and the Midnight Cat (read to us by a visiting American teacher who was obviously way ahead of his time - teaching of picture books to high schoolers only really starting to take off here now).
In terms of non-set texts, remember loving some absolute rubbish, eg, those Flowers in the Attic books were hugely popular at my (all girls) school. Think I read the whole series in year 10! Also remember devouring the Thorn Birds at one stage,
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bookishgirl
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Post by bookishgirl on Mar 11, 2009 19:56:08 GMT -5
The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton Night by Elie Wiesel Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
right now we are reading Warriors Dont Cry by Melba Beals
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Halie
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Post by Halie on Mar 11, 2009 21:10:20 GMT -5
This year I've read:
Writing for Story The Radical Write The Scarlet Letter Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
and right now we're reading East of Eden.
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charmed4evr
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Post by charmed4evr on Mar 15, 2009 15:58:54 GMT -5
Im still in high school So far I have read Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, Sherlock Holmes, The Woman in Black and we are about to start Of Mice and Men.
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Post by Pilleriin on Mar 16, 2009 4:05:39 GMT -5
I've only had my first course of literature in high school, but so far we've read: Oedipus Rex and Antigone by Sophokles Daphnis & Chloe by Longus Trimalchio's Feast by Petronius and Golden Ass by Apuleius.
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Post by Hanna on Mar 16, 2009 5:59:48 GMT -5
You all read such cool books in high school! I'm very envious:) Here's what I remember us reading: - Go Ask Alice - Of Mice and Men - The Fellowship of the Ring - Naive. Super by Erlend Loe - The Sharks by Jens Bjørneboe - Victoria by Knut Hamsun
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Post by gilmoreandbasketball on Mar 26, 2009 14:44:20 GMT -5
last year we read jane eyre, wuthering heights, black boy, animal farm and my antonia so far this year ive read The Once and Future King, Things Fall Apart, To Kill A Mockingbird, and currently reading Tale of Two Cities, also for my research paper im reading The Echo Maker
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Post by gilmoreandbasketball on Mar 26, 2009 14:44:56 GMT -5
this year i also read the taming of the shrew
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