I really get interested. I wonder which authors, correctly which works of them are required reading by school programs?Originally Posted by electric_kool_aid
I am personally happy Orwell has his own spot on this site. He's an amazing author and definitely should be required reading in schools. Then again I think Alice in Wonderland should be required, so there ya go
I'll think back to the past four years.. and let's see.
Scarlet Letter, Of Mice and Men, Death of a Salesman, Night, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Frankenstein, Othello..
That's all I remember having to read in English, there were parts of Beowulf and a few other stories, but I can't recall them. I'm pretty sure I barely read any of those or just Sparknoted them at some point. Ah, youthful rebellion and slacking off.
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Hmm, despite my difficult memory, the ones that I remember:
The Scarlet Letter
The Catcher in the Rye
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Turn of the Screw
Of Mice and Men
Grapes of Wrath
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Stranger in a Strange Land
Not 100% sure I understood the question, but this semester we were working with:
Gulliver's Travels
Mrs Dalloway
Brand New World
Walden
The Importance Of Being Earnest
Heart Of Darkness
Waiting For Godot
The Bell Jar
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
Absolom, Absolom
Bartleby The Scrivener
The Horse-Dealer's Daughter
Modest Proposal
some of T.S. Elliott's essays
Canterburry Tales
Humphrey Clinker
Tristam Shandy
Macbeth
several sonnets and poems
Aside of a few works we were only required to read parts of the novels.
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Ill tell you what we have to read In Grade 10:
Romeo and Juliet
The Alchemist
To Kill a Mockingbird
*Frankenstein
*Girl with the Pearl Earing
*=You have a choice between the books one which one to read
There definatley going to be more, I forgot which other ones we have to read.
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Well, in the 10th grade it's the following:
- Of Mice and Men
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Animal Farm
- Their Eyes Were Watching God
- A Midsummer's Night's Dream
- Lord of the Flies
There are more, but I can't remembe them right now.
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All your book lists are really long compared to mine! Maybe this is because you're all at American schools or something? I go to school in the UK and you only get set a maximum of 4 or 5 books a year for the A levels exams that we sit in June. I personally don't think this is enough, but then again it's incredibly hard to revise for more at once
Anyway, for GCSEs (which lasted two years) I did
Of Mice and Men
The Merchant of Venice
Jane Eyre
Poems by Christina Rosetti, Emily Dickinson, RS Thomas and Robert Frost
For AS Levels this year, I'm
Death of a Salesman
A Passage to India
Antony and Cleopatra
The Franklin's Tale from Chaucer
my IGcse books were
Animal Farm
An Ideal husband
A view from a bridge
(An anthology by Seamus heaney cant remember what )
and somthing else but cantthink what
AS was
The handmaids tale
Hamlet
Faustus
The whitsum weddings By philip Larkin
A2
a long list but I chose The color Purple and Pamela or Virtue rewarded
Othello
John Keats
sasson
wilfred Owen
Jessie Pope
and then lots of ww1 poems
Pat Barker regeneration trilogy
Birdsong
and anything with ww1 as a theme more or less
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Yeah im in england at school at the moment and ive just finished english (YAWN). We have studied so far (and i'm almost at the end of the two year course):
Far From the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy
Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare
Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw
Short Stories from different cultures
Opening Worlds Poetry
War Poetry, by Wilfred Owen and Alfred Lord Tennyson
But my friend next to me here in french has a completely different syllabus
I think that the following novels should be read in the 10th Grade:
Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre
A Tale Of Two Cities
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
Pride And Prejudice
The Hobbit
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High school reading I can recall:
Of Mice and Men
Romeo and Juliet
1984
a book by Isacc Asimov, can't remember which
Huckleberry Finn
Lord of the Flies
Alice in Wonderland (we chose this in an honors class to read, not normal syllabi material)
and more...
Pensy - What did you think of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn? I grew up in Brooklyn, so it was one of our required reading.
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I liked it a lot. I think that it is good for 10th Grade students, specially for American students.As far as I can recall, itwas published in 1943, probably a few years before you were born. I am very glad to find that you have read it in the school.
Can you remember in which grade did you read it?
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Yes it was before my time. I'm old, but not ancient.I liked it a lot. I think that it is good for 10th Grade students, specially for American students.As far as I can recall, itwas published in 1943, probably a few years before you were born. I am very glad to find that you have read it in the school.
Can you remember in which grade did you read it?
I think I read it around the same grade, which would correspond to about 14 or 15 years old.
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so far i've had to read:
Brave New World
A Tale of Two Cities
Gulliver's Travels
MacBeth
Hamlet
The Canterbury Tales
Beowulf
Frankenstein
The Catcher And The Rye
The Great Gatsby
The Crucible
...maybe some others.
and more to come seeing as how i'm not finished yet.
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