NCMom Posted May 30, 2011 Share Posted May 30, 2011 My dd has done all of these except 9 or so. If she finishes this list do you think we can safely stop American Lit?? We are just not Amer Lit fans and she is a math and science person anyway. She just wants to do Brit Lit (she did World Lit this year) and then genre lit for her remaining school years. Short Stories of O’Henry Short Stories of Twain Short Stories/Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe Poetry of Robert Frost Poetry of Langston Hughes Poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poetry of Emily Dickinson My Antonia– Willa Cather Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee Death Comes for the Archbishop – Willa Cather The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams - 1 play The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway Billy Budd - Herman Melville The Chosen - Chaim Potok Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry Call of the Wild - Jack London Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane 1984 – George Orwell Slaughter House Five – Kurt Vonnegut Jr. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter Miller Life of Douglass - Frederick Douglass Up From Slavery - Booker T. Washington Walden – Thoreau Various - Emerson Thanks! Georgia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted May 30, 2011 Share Posted May 30, 2011 I guess I would say that it depends on what you mean by "done". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
In The Great White North Posted May 30, 2011 Share Posted May 30, 2011 I think you can stop Am Lit now. The only book out of the last nine I read in high school was 1984 (and a few poems/essays, maybe one each from Thoreau and Emerson.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCMom Posted May 30, 2011 Author Share Posted May 30, 2011 I guess I would say that it depends on what you mean by "done". Well, her English credits look like English I, II, III etc., rather than American Lit, Brit Lit, and so on; the lit is rolled in there. Although she would read some American authors in genre studies (sci fi, short stories, poetry, whatever) she does not want to have to concentrate on US writers ever again. (I blame this mostly on Billy Budd, lol) But if she has missed some super important work then it can be squeezed in somewhere. The ones she still has to do are The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald Slaughter House Five – Kurt Vonnegut Jr. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter Miller Death Comes for the Archbishop – Willa Cather My Antonia– Willa Cather Poetry of Emily Dickinson (wants to do this more indepth) Poetry of Langston Hughes Actually only 7 left, all fairly light, not counting the poems, and fairly easy to fold into genre stuff! Thanks, Georgia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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