Forget-Me-Not Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 (edited) Here is what I can remember; there were probably more. I took AP/GATE/college prep all the way through, and we were usually required to read some selections of our own choice (from a list) over summer too. I specifically remember reading either Sense and Sensibility or Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and something by Albert Camus for those assignments.  I then started college as an English major, and got an AA in Humanities. Even though I went on to do a Bachelor's degree in the sciences, I've got a love for classic lit, so I've read a lot of books in my day. Sometimes it's hard to remember when I read what :lol:   Senior Year Washington Square by Henry James A Passage to India by EM Forster The Invisible Man by Ralph Elliot Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce  Junior Year The Sound and the Furyby William Faulkner The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Sun Also Rises and The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Assorted poetry and short stories. I specifically remember some from Sylvia Plath and Hemingway  Sophomore Year Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne T'ess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy Les Miserables by Victor Hugo The Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad  Freshman Year A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens The Pearl, The Red Pony, Of Mice & Men by John Steinbeck  Along the way I've read several Shakespeare plays as well: Macbeth, Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado about Nothing. I'm just not sure where they fit in :D Edited September 7, 2012 by LemonPie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myfunnybunch Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 It all kind of blends together, so I can't remember what specifically we read in my senior year. I know we read Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce) and Nostromo (Conrad) as seniors because I remember my study partners for those books. I think we read The Great Gatsby that year as well, because our teacher was a little surprised we hadn't already read it. Â Others I remember from high school: Metamorphosis, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, Henry V (or IV??), some short stories including The Yellow Wallpaper and The Lottery, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Lord of the Flies (which gave me nightmares), Death of a Salesman. I know we read more, but I can't remember the rest. Â Cat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnylady303 Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 Mine was 94-95 at a public college prep school in AP/IB English.  Bleak House (the book that never ended) The Turn of the Screw Heart of Darkness The Awakening  I can't remember what else. All I remember is I was far more interested in making time with my boyfriend than reading literature. I don't think I liked any of those much except maybe the last one. I liked other years literature better - seems like my favorites from high school were:  To Kill A Mockingbird Agamemnon Great Gatsby Scarlet Letter MacBeth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BinahYeteirah Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 I can't remember specific years of high school either.  I remember reading the following sometime during high school:  Heart of Darkness Jane Eyre The Odyssey Oedipus Rex Medea Wuthering Heights Romeo and Juliet The Scarlet Letter Hamlet Our Town  I'm sure I forgetting many of the assigned books, but that's what I can remember at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiobrain Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 (edited) I graduated in 1988. If I go to my HS's coursebook now, they do not read nearly as many books as we did. We were also on a trimester system, so we had shorter actual days of classes, yet class length was longer, and fewer classes. Now they have semesters and they do 1/3 as much work, IMHO.  What I remember, over all 4 years:  Amer. Lit 11 th grade: Of Mice & Men, An American Tragedy, Great Gatsby, Scarlet Letter, The Grapes of Wrath, Walden, Etc.  World Lit: The Trial, Crime & Punishment, Moliere plays, Madame Bovary, One Day in the Life of Ivan Dynysovich, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gilgamesh, Canterbury Tales  Misc: Brave New World, Macbeth, The Tempest, The importance of Being Earnest, To the Lighthouse, multiple plays and short stories, Faulkner, Classic fairy tales & myths, parts of the Bible as myth and fiction, The Odyssey, Marcus Aurelius, Greek Plays, Herodotus, etc.  We read Twain, Shakespeare, Poe and Dickens in middle school. (Toms Sawyer & Huck Finn, R & J, Midsummer's, Oliver Twist, Tale of Two Cities, All Quiet on the Western front, The Iliad, 1984, metamorphosis, To Kill a Mockingbird, etc) Edited September 7, 2012 by radiobrain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vonfirmath Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 What is surprising about these days i: I don't remember having a reading list for over the summer! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Element Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 (edited) I graduated early so I was only there for one semester, but I read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for literature and Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead for Honors English. That was the only required reading I had all semester. Â ETA: True story: I never received my physical diploma because I forgot to turn my in Frankenstein book at the end of the semester. I don't know; I just never got around to it. I was already living in a different city by the time my class got around to graduating. I still have the book, and still don't have a physical HS diploma. :P I haven't thought about that in years! Edited September 7, 2012 by Element Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
higginszoo Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 Umm, I'm not sure that I remember it all -- it was kind of a disjoint year, both for me in general (returning to the school I had been in freshman year, after stops at other schools) and for the teacher (he adopted a child that year, and then his wife had a health crisis so we had substitutes a lot that year. Â What I remember: The Oedipus Cycle -- all three plays Boewulf Of Mice and Men Our Town Romeo and Juliet (junior year was almost all Shakespeare in this school -- I missed out on that, and ended up doing American lit (practically the same book) both years that I was gone). Â There probably was more -- that's what I remember 20-odd years after the fact, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhonda in TX Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 I didn't take English my senior year. :leaving: Honors English all other years, but couldn't stand the teacher (had her in 11th) I'd have as a senior. I only needed 3 years, so I didn't take it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dancer67 Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 Believe it or not............The Outsiders.:blushing: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie Smith Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 What is surprising about these days i:I don't remember having a reading list for over the summer! Â I am pretty sure we never had a summer reading list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lllll Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 (edited) ... Edited December 23, 2012 by ksva Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reesegirl Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 I can't remember all the titles that I read in highschool english but do remember that the theme of my sr. honors english was tragedy theme. 1984 Death of a Salesman Brave New World MacBeth Oedipus Rex  In my jr and soph year I remember reading Canarey row Hamlet The Scarlet Letter Of Mice and Men Our Town Lord of the flies The Separate Peace Merchant of Venice The Great Gatsby Edgar Allan Poe The importance of Being Earnest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justamouse Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 (edited) I don't remember which books because of the books, I remember them because of the teachers. Â I had an English teacher in my Sophomore year who studied middle English and read The Canterbury Tales prologue to us that way. Amazing, amazing, amazing. The Pearl, Old Man and the Sea, The Great Gatsby. Â Junior English. I think this was the Shakespeare year-Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Othello. I really hated Romeo and Juliet, so I remember that. Â Senior English, One Day in the Life of Ivan, Brothers Karamazov, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Narcissus and Goldmund (which I adored). Les Mis! How could I forget! Then when we were done, we went to see the play in NYC, which was amazing. Â Of Mice was in there somewhere, and Lord of the Flies--I think that was 9th. Edited September 7, 2012 by justamouse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happypamama Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 Let's see. . . Senior year, I took English classes at a local college. One semester was a whole lot of poetry, a good survey introduction (mostly using the Norton Anthology) that prepared me well for the English class I took when I went to my main college (which was designed for English majors; I was only in it because it was the writing-intensive course for my history-related major). The other semester was Intro to Drama, and our teacher was great. Among other things, I know we read The Glass Menagerie (which I loved), Agamemnon, Lysistrata (I think), something by Moliere, Henry V, and King Lear. Â Junior year of high school, I took a basic composition course at the local college -- not a lot of reading, but a lot of writing. I also took Intro to Short Story -- another good survey course; I do remember "Heart of Darkness" and "Bartleby the Scrivener." Â I read The Scarlet Letter junior year for US history. Other things we read in 8th-10th grade (accelerated classes, designed to get us ready for college courses in 11th grade): Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Canterbury Tales, Macbeth, Ordinary People, Great Gatsby, Grapes of Wrath, Great Expectations, Romeo and Juliet, "The Necklace" (which is the only short story I remember from those years, and only because our textbook used it for a ton of examples), Oedipus Rex, the entire crazy long Les Miserables, Animal Farm (8th grade), Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Huck Finn (9th, I think), The Hobbit (8th grade), A Christmas Carol (8th, IIRC), John Updike's "A&P," I believe 1984 and Of Mice and Men were on the list of choices for one year's summer reading, but I opted for others instead of those. Â I know I've read Our Town but can't remember when. And Hamlet in sixth grade. To Kill a Mockingbird was somewhere in 7th or 8th, I think. I read The Light in the Forest somewhere in high school. I know I've also read some Poe, some of Beowulf, "The Gift of the Magi, "The Ransom of Red Chief," some of Sir Thomas Malory's works about Arthur, some of "Paradise Lost," and a lot of other random stuff. I feel like I've read Moby Dick, or at least part of it, and I feel like I've read something by Hemingway but can't remember what. (Clearly, these books made huge impressions on me, LOL.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeacefulChaos Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 (edited) Just curious. I will have to post mine in a while as I am headed out the door. Â :lol: :lol: What did I read my senior year? :lol: Â My class schedule had no academics in it to speak of. So I really didn't read anything for school. I read a ton in my free time but they weren't classics. :) (My schedule was band, a cappella choir, show choir, women's choir, two free periods where I was a teacher's aide - one of them was for the band director, all year, and the other was for my favorite 'social studies' teacher first semester and for freshman choir second semester, in which I ended up singing, too - and then I went and did 'contracted ed' and helped teach band and choir at the middle school. Any guess what I was planning on my life being at the time? :lol: ) Â Â ETA: OH! Wait! I did take an AP Lit & Comp class one semester of my senior year. Easiest A I ever got... of course, we didn't really do much. I remember a lot of movies, which = me sleeping with my head on the desk. Yep, senior personality 'Most likely to sleep through life' right here. :thumbup: Â Oh, and I graduated in 2000. We only had required english classes through 10th grade, and then we had to choose an elective english class in 11th. We didn't have to do one as a senior, but I needed something to fill the time slot and someone recommended AP L&C because it was so easy. I was all about working as little as possible my senior year. (I wasn't dumb - I could have done a harder class - but I just didn't want to!) Edited September 7, 2012 by PeacefulChaos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmoira Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 It's all a bit foggy as to what was which year, but this is my best guess:  English: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, "The Dead" "The Wasteland" (not a novel, but the assigned background reading made it feel like one) something by Shakespeare (Hamlet was 11th, I think, and we'd already done Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, and MacBeth... must be The Tempest) Waiting for Godot (may have been in Humanities) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Heart of Darkness I'm missing a novel  CanLit: The Stone Angel As for Me and My House something by Robertson Davies (not Fifth Business, that was earlier) something by Atwood (Surfacing, I think) terrible, terrible poetry I'm missing something... probably something landscape-y; if only they'd jazzed it up with some Farley Mowat :D  Humanities: On the Road Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance The Plague and L'Etranger The Wars (Timothy Findley) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest other poems by Eliot... "The Hollow Men," "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" I'm missing something humorous Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2jjka Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 (edited) Our school didn't have AP or Honors English - this was just their standard English course: Â Macbeth Hamlet Romeo & Juliette Julius Caesar most of Shakespeare's sonnets Canterbury Tales Beowulf Great Expectations Rebecca Tess of the D'urbervilles Catcher In the Rye One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ben Hur Of Mice and Men The Grapes of Wrath The Color Purple plus several short stories (Poe, O'Henry, etc) Edited September 7, 2012 by mom2jjka Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chepyl Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 (edited) Honors English, 15 years ago:  Heart of Darkness Crime and Punishment Three others that I cannot remember.... eta: I remember one more...As I lay dying   Hamlet MacBeth Merchant of Venice Richard III  Oedipus and one other, it runs together with college and masters work..  Death of a Salesman Crucible  Song of Solomon- just me, we each had to pick from a list for our analysis paper.  Excerpts or Canterbury Tales, a lot of poetry that I don't remember. Edited September 7, 2012 by chepyl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wendi Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 I don't remember which years I read them, but I read and wrote thesis papers on these, and more: Â Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison) The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald) "A Good Man is Hard to Find" (Flannery O'Connor) The Chosen (Chaim Potok) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Aleksander Solzhenitsyn) Night (Elie Weisel) Catch-22 (Joseph Heller) The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck) Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) The Iliad (Homer) "Julius Caesar" (William Shakespeare) Â (This was a class for gifted students) Â Wendi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravelingChris Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 I don't remember that well. It was over 30 years ago. Here is part of what I remember, and it was AP English. Parts of the Bible (like Genesis, Job, maybe Prverbs and Psalsm???) and Edith Hamilton's Mythology for summer reading. Odysseus, Hamlet, Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man and the Dubliners, lots of poetry, Grapes of Wrath, I think something by Flannery OConnor, and I am sure there was more but I can't remember or get mixed up what I read in college, or in 10th and 11th grade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*lifeoftheparty* Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 AP English, Senior year... all I can remember is Night by Elie Wiesel, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and a textbook with lots of stories and poems that I used AGAIN for English 101, in college. Â Oh, and we read a bunch of stories by Kate Chopin... that's all I remember... no wait, I think we read Bram Stokers Dracula too.... OK, that's really all I remember, this was 13 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommy22alyns Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 Before school, we had to read Jane Eyre, Brave New World, and The Tempest. During the year we read the Inferno, Heart of Darkness, "feminist poetry" (Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and I schooled the teacher on Sylvia Plath), and some other stuff that I forgot. It was an AP class. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amsunshine Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 I'm not sure I can remember them all, but here goes: Â Crime and Punishment Picture of Dorian Grey Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man Anna Karenina Pride and Prejudice King Lear Lots of poetry -- Shakespearean Sonnets, and others I can't precisely recall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 I was taking AP literature and composition, so we picked a novel each grading period off of the AP list to write about, plus read/discussed a lot of shorter literature. I'd been on the Academic competition team in high school as an literature specialist, so I'd read the entire list before starting the class.  11th grade had been British Literature-basically, a semester of Shakespeare and a semester of everything else.  10th grade was American Literature  9th grade was World Literature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostSurprise Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 AP English @ 20 years ago. Â A lot of short stories including Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" and Oates' "Where are You Going, Where Have You Been?" Â A bunch of poetry like Eliot's "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock." Â The plays Death of Salesman and The Doll House. Â Heart of Darkness Pride and Prejudice Lord of the Flies And 2 others of our choice from the College Bound Reading List. We also did a lot of writing. Â Because they cancelled anatomy (semester) and nucleonics (semester) for lack of interest, I filled in with English and World Lit. I read a lot in those classes but since they were specialty classes I'll hold off unless someone is really curious. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyofsixreboot Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 As best I can remember Siddhartha Grapes of Wrath Crime and Punishment Hamlet The Great Gatsby The Old Man and the Sea Wuthering Heights Brave New World  That's all I can remember but it was 30 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeindeed Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 I can't remember which books I read during which year of high school. I do know that at some point in high school I read Silas Marner, the book of Job from The Bible, Julius Caesar, Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, poetry by Edgar Allan Poe, Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and several others that I've forgotten. Our reading material was quite challenging. All of the Shakespeare that I read was in its original form...I do remember that!:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandra Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 I can't remember what we read in English, only that it would have bee pretty classic. I do remember the novels we read in French though -- Pere Goriot, Madame Bovary and Le Rouge et Le Noir. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delighted3 Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 Ok, I probably spent way too much time trying to remember this:  10th grade Death of a Salesman The Odyssey Of Mice and Men Great Gatsby Scarlett Letter Huckleberry Finn Flowers for Algernon  11th grade A Tale of Two Cities Macbeth Julius Caesar Pride and Prejudice Romeo and Juliet Canterbury Tales  12th grade Brave New World Heart of Darkness  I know there were more, especially in 12th grade, but this is all I can remember. On the flip side, my husband graduated form high school having only read 1 book: 1984. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohdanigirl Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 (edited) Dante's Inferno Beowulf The Scarlet Letter Genesis Julius Caesar Macbeth Wuthering Heights Matamorphosis The Invisible Man A bunch of short Stories that I do not remember. Â Â I know there was a lot more, but I just don't recall. This was at a Public school, so technically Genesis was "optional". You couldn't get a very good grade on quiz's and tests without reading everything, though. Â Danielle Edited September 7, 2012 by USDGAL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 Hmmm, that was a loooong time ago! ;) Our lit. class was called "Modern Literature and the Condition of Man."  We read: The Grapes of Wrath Siddhartha Darkness at Noon Perelandra Heart of Darkness  It was an intense class! Small with a fabulous teacher and lots of worldview challenge from all angles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garga Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 I don't remember. Â Wait. We read The Old Man and the Sea sometime in high school--11th grade? It was the only book ever assigned that I did not read because I hated it so much. Â My mother wouldn't let me read twaddle, however, so I read tons of classics on my own for fun. But for school? Don't remember. Â How do you guys remember what you read in school? I graduated in 1990, so that was 22 years ago. Maybe it's just been too long... :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hen Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 A couple of plays, I am pretty sure the only book we read was Metamorphosis by Kafka. I was in AP English, mostly our teacher just lectured us through the books- summed them up and then told us why they were important..and then we wrote and wrote. We read some pieces of great books, but really short excerpts. I was really excited to get to college and actually read the works we only discussed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 It was AP Lit and I can't remember. Â I remember a few things from American Lit the year before: The Scarlet Letter, The Grapes of Wrath, a big project on TS Eliot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acablue Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 I took British Lit my senior year. I can't remember everything we did, but we definitely studied Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, The Picture of Dorian Gray, A Christmas Carol and Hamlet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 1984 (read it in 1984) Fahrenheit 451 Cry, the Beloved Country Madame Bovary A Passage to India Julius Caesar Canterbury Tales The Return of the Native Wuthering Heights The Scarlet Letter The Importance of Being Earnest The Picture of Dorian Gray The Great Gatsby A Tale of Two Cities Macbeth Death of a Salesman The Glass Menagerie Oedipus Rex Cyrano de Bergerac  and others I can't think of right now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibraryLover Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 (edited) Homschooling a high school student brings it all back. Also, I remember certain teachers very well. I was lucky to have some dynamic ones. You don't forget learning "To be or not to be", for instance, or Night, Walden, Manderley burning to the ground, Sandburg's ' on little cat feet' or Frost's "I took the road less traveled, and that has made all the difference". You dont forget you read "The House of Seven Gables", and then went on a field to the home. Or the time you were in the middle of The Great Gatsby, and your class too a bus trip to Newport, RI to see where the movie was filmed. Â It is somewhat difficult for me to remember what I read for pleasure, v. what I read for school, and what my mom read to us. Â I do remember classes, and teachers, and certain assignments, and that I thought I would die before I finished reading Billy Bud. (I just got a flash of pain, and I didn't even mention that in my original post.) I also remember weeping in class over Our Town in 9th grade. Â Some words stay with you. Â We did have a summer reading list. Edited September 8, 2012 by LibraryLover Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefragile7393 Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 The Scarlet Letter. GAHHHHHHHHHHHh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happyhomemaker Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 12th grade was Briish lit for me. We read: Beowulf Canterbury Tales Macbeth Jane Eyre Cry, the Beloved Country Lord of the Flies Dracula A Tale of Two Cities Assorted short stories and poetry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Florida. Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 I am pretty sure we never had a summer reading list. Â Â We never had summer reading lists either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ondreeuh Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 Honors English from grades 9-11: Freshman: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Great Expectations, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Scarlet Letter, The Crucible Sophomore: Mists of Avalon, Les Miserables, The Bible as Literature (not sure what else) Junior: 12th Night, Ethan Frome, Great Gatsby, Grapes of Wrath  Senior: alternative school with no curriculum. I read The Good Earth on my own.  In my state college honors program (English, Philosophy, and History), freshman year I read read Dante's Inferno, Greek Myths, The Song of Roland, Shadows Beneath the Pomegranate Tree, The Heart of Darkness, Metamorphosis, King Lear, Brothers Karamazov, and probably several others. I had 5-6 literary analysis papers each quarter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeritasMama Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 What I remember reading in High School:  Plays: Romeo and Juliet Julius Caesar Our Town The Glass Menagerie Death of a Saleman   Novels: Great Expectations A Seperate Peace The Grapes of Wrath Lord of the Flies The Summer of My German Soldier Of Mice and Men The Call of the Wild Les Miserables  Short Fiction: The Yellow Wallpaper Bernice Bobs Her Hair To Build a Fire An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge The Gift of the Magi The Cask of Amontillado The Tell Tale Heart The Jilting of Granny Weatherall The Atheist's Mass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MelAR05 Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 I don't remember. :tongue_smilie:And it was even an Honors English class. I remember the books from 9th, 10th and 11th but not my Senior year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freesia Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 My AP class included: Metamorphosis, Day in the Life of Ivan Illych, Emma, Hamlet  I know there were others but that is what I remember. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nukeswife Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 My senior year I took AP English Lit and Comp. Â I remember we had to memorize some part of the Caterbury Tales. Â We also read MacBeth Hamlet A Winter's Tale (we also saw a play of this one which was pretty good although freakin cold since it was at an outdoor theatre in late Oct in WI) Â I also remember having to read The Great Gatsby, The Awakening, Jude the Obscure, some poetry although I can't remember what and by whom. I'm sure there was more but I'm not sure what. Â I know we had to do a research paper that was 10 pages long on and author and my teacher actually had a raffle type of thing so not everyone picked Poe. Basically we all had to stay after school and pull a number out of a hat and then in order of said numbers we got to pick from a list he gave us. There were only 3 classes worth with a total of 53 kids and I got number 47. I ended up with Thomas Hardy. Part of our paper had to be about one of their famous works and my teacher said I couldn't do Jude the Obscure since we'd read that shortly before the papers were assigned. I ended up reading Tess of the D'Urbervilles which seemed like the same stinking storyline of Jude, so I never finished reading it but managed and A on the paper and oral presentation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted September 8, 2012 Author Share Posted September 8, 2012 My high school did not have honors or AP when I went there (they do now) but in Senior English I remember reading:  Beowulf The Odyssey The Jungle Jane Eyre Hamlet  I know there were a few more, but those are the ones I remember. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsabelC Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 (edited) I honestly can't remember enough to give you an accurate list. I think it was a few Shakespeare plays (and maybe one or two other plays which I recall doing but not sure which year), selected works of a few poets and maybe six or eight novels. Â This was in grade 11 (junior year) - under our old system you didn't have to do the same subjects in both the two final years, so I did biology, chemistry, math, English lit, French, German, history, legal studies and computing spread over the two years - but it was the highest level of English offered in school. The state education department had quite a long list of works to study, and it was up to individual schools/teachers to select what each class would do. Edited September 8, 2012 by Hotdrink Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amyco Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 (edited) Moby Dick, Jude the Obscure, Othello, King Lear, Anna Karenina, Crime and Punishment, and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Edited September 8, 2012 by amyco71 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiegirl Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 High school was a long, long, long tme ago. My brother and I were just talking about this a few days ago. I did not read good books in highschool but my brother, who is 8 years younger than I am and went to the same school, read many classics like Heart of Darkness. Obviously we had different teachers. Â All I remember reading in Gr. 12 was Silas Marner and King Lear. I do remember reading lots of poetry and short stories as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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