s/o Link to my excellent high school's course list (middle and elem too)

[Halcyon]

ETA: Sorry, this doesn't include the Elementary or Middle School courses. I thought it did. I will dig for that, and see if I can come up with it if anyone is interested.

 

ETA 2: Here's their elective course catalog for 6-8th.

 

Thought others might find this link to my school's course catalog interesting. I loved my education, and the reading list for Juniors and Seniors (these are elective courses of which there are many to choose from, but students get to choose) include:

 

Selections from Genesis and Exodus and Joshua;

The Bacchae;

Selections from The Canterbury

Tales: The Wife of Bath and The Prioress;

The Merchant of Venice;

Persuasion;

Heart of Darkness;

Mrs. Plum;

Waiting for Godot;

Giovanni’s Room;

Sula;

Angels in America.

Homer, Iliad (parts)

Shakespeare, King Lear

Melville, Moby-Dick

Camus, The Plague or Joyce

Ulysses (parts)

Gogol’s Dead Souls,

Turgenev’s Home of the Gentry and several of his Sketches from a Hunter’s Album,

Joyce

Stendhal

Gordimer

Frederick Douglass

the Brontës

M. Robinson

R. Doyle

W.G. Sebald.

Shakespeare

Nabokov

Conrad

Ishiguro

Poe

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Morrison

Kincaid

Chekhov

Virginia Woolf

Philip K. Dick

Aldous Huxley

Wallace Stevens

Milan Kundera

Haruki Murakami,

Emily Dickinson

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre

Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations

Wilkie Collins’ Woman in White.

James’ The Turn of the Screw

Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway

Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day.

A Winter's Tale,

Shakespeare The Tempest

Swift Gulliver’s Travels or shorter works

Balzac Père Goriot

Dostoevsky The Eternal Husband or shorter works

Unamuno's Mist

Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises

Beckett's Waiting for Godot

Nabokov's Pnin

Short stories by Gogol, Kafka, Borges.

 

 

 

Sigh. :001_wub::001_wub:

Edited September 7, 2012 by Halcyon