Tap Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Ds14 needs to pick 4 books to read, and do basic book reports on for his Eng 9 teacher....what would you choose -or not choose from this list? He was given a 4 page list. I only listed what we own from the list, eliminating books he has already read, unless he was willing to read them again. FYI He is an advanced reader so nothing intimadates him. Guterson-Snow Falling on Cedars Hawthorne-The Scarlet Letter, House of Seven Gables Hemingway-A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises James-Portrait of a Lady, Turn of the Screw, Washington Square Homer-Odyssey Flaubert-Madame Bovary Austen-Emma, Masnfield Park, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice Bronte,C-Jane Eyre Conrad-Heart of Darkness Dickens-David Copperfield, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities Eliot,G-MIddlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner Hardy-Jude the Obscure, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The Mayor of Casterbridge Melville-Billy Budd, Moby Dick, Redburn Twain-Huckleberry Finn Any Shakespeare Wilde-The Picture of Dorian Gray Tolstoy-Anna Karena Wharton-Ethan Frome, The Age Of Innocence This list was from an AP English list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Books I liked at that age. "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James. Scary but good. "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens. My favorite of Dickens and I thought one of his most accessible books. I absolutely love "Moby Dick" but it is long and some people despise it. "The Scarlett Letter". I read many of the other books on the list and don't remember them - this one I do! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tap Posted January 19, 2009 Author Share Posted January 19, 2009 Books I liked at that age. "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James. Scary but good. "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens. My favorite of Dickens and I thought one of his most accessible books. I absolutely love "Moby Dick" but it is long and some people despise it. "The Scarlett Letter". I read many of the other books on the list and don't remember them - this one I do! Funny, I handed him Scarlet Letter tonight and suggested he read a chapter to see if it interests him. I picked it because of the cultural references so commonly used with this book. Moby Dick is only one he has requested. We thumbed through Great Expectations tonight while we were compiling his 'short list' and is sitting beside me :0) You're good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamela H in Texas Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Hawthorne-The Scarlet Letter Homer-Odyssey Austen-Emma Dickens-David Copperfield, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities Silas Marner Any Shakespeare Faves would be Silas Marner and Great Expectations I think, though I'm enjoying Emma for the first time now. And there is something about the Scarlet Letter. One consideration. If he's only in 9th grade, can he look at the reading lists for 10th-12th? I'd hate to read Hamlet just to need to do so again in 12th. There is nothing wrong with reading books multiple times, but for credit, I'd want to read lots of different books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melinda in VT Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 One consideration. If he's only in 9th grade, can he look at the reading lists for 10th-12th? I'd hate to read Hamlet just to need to do so again in 12th. There is nothing wrong with reading books multiple times, but for credit, I'd want to read lots of different books. I agree with this. I once ended up being assigned Heart of Darkness three semesters in a row. By the third semester, I was sick of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandra in NC Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 For a 9th grader, these would be good choices. Twain-Huckleberry Finn Hemingway-A Farewell to Arms Hawthorne-The Scarlet Letter Any Shakespeare "The Taming of the Shrew" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ereks mom Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 At that age, though, I was mostly into short stories. I loved American short stories, especially Edgar Allen Poe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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