Just wanted to post and share what I will be learning in grade 12! Me and my English teacher made up this outline last year, so a lot of it is stuff that I've read and enjoyed and wanted the other kids to enjoy. So anyways here it is.
a) Plays:
"Hamlet" - William Shakespeare (This is particularly fun since the division removed this from the curriculum and we're doing it anyways!)
"Rosencratz + Guildenstern are Dead" - Tom Stoppard (This was my addition and our local university is performing it in January so we get to see! even though I'm already getting tickets for my birthday, so I'll see it twice!)
b)Novels:
Watership Down - Richard Adams
A Novel of choice (Must be approved)
suggestions include:
The Road to Wigin Pier - Orwell
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Fahrenheight 451 - Ray Bradbury
Motorcycle Diaries - Che Guevara
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Brave New World - Alduous Huxley
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
c) Short Stories:
"Hills Like White Elephants" - Hemingway
"Barn Burning" - Faulkner
"The Geranium" - Flannery O'Connor
"Araby" + "The Dead" - James Joyce ( )
d)Essays:
Why I Write - Orwell
Shooting an Elephant - Orwell
-Kerouac
-H.S Thompson
-Noam Chomski
e) Poetry:
"The Wasteland" - T.S. Eliot (I wanted the Hollowmen )
"Howl" - Alan ginsberg
-Bob Dylan
"Jazz" - Jack Kerouac
-Emily Dickenson
"The Loneliness of the Military Historian" - Margaret Atwood
Questions? Comments? Post away!