High School /lit/

[Anonymous No.13535209]

What books did they make you read in high school? Do you still love any of them?

They made us read 1 novel and 1 Shakespeare every year.
>Grade 9: Romeo and Juliet, To Kill a Mockingbird
>Grade 10: Merchant of Venice, Animal Farm
>Grade 11: MacBeth, Old Man and the Sea
>Grade 12: Hamlet, Tale of Two Cities

The only one that really stuck with me was MacBeth. Romeo and Juliet was pretty cool. I hated Old Man and the Sea the most but ended up loving all the other Hemingway I read.

[Anonymous No.13535216]

>>13535209
Why do we have to read books about nigger lovers like TKAM and Jewish sob stories like Night?

[Anonymous No.13535222]

>>13535216
Do you have your list of books or are you still in high school and unable to fill it out?

[Anonymous No.13535223]

mostly old will shaxpy
i love him in spite of it

[Anonymous No.13535224]

Only hood book they had us read was catcher in the rye

[Anonymous No.13535227]

>>13535209

I have to teach John Green. They don't get Shakespeare until Junior year.

[Anonymous No.13535256]

Freshman: bunch of greek mythology, romeo and juliet,
Sophomore: a tale of two cities, the merchant of venice, animal farm
Junior: the scarlet letter, the crucible, death of a salesman, to kill a mockingbird, the great gatsby
Senior: macbeth, hamlet, things fall apart

Think there are a bunch i cant remember, it was 10+ years ago

[Anonymous No.13535260]

All I remember is Thus Spake Zarathustra, Ulysses, and To Kill a Mockingbird

[Anonymous No.13535274]

Grade 10: either "lord of the flies", "animal farm" or "1984" (your choice)
Grade 11&12: "Steppenwolf", "Faust" and "der goldene Topf"

[Anonymous No.13535275]

I went to High School in Miami during the 90s so there wasn't much reading going on. I finished Catcher in the Rye and I remember getting laughed at by my classmates for actually doing my homework.

[Anonymous No.13535299]

>>13535260
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Why? I'm going to assume you didn't read beyond good and evil and on the Genealogy of Morality, so why did you do it?

[Anonymous No.13535371]

>>13535260

Damn wtf, where did you go to high school?

[Anonymous No.13535384]

>>13535260
Where did you go that you read Nietzsche? We read Scarlet Letter, the Awakening and some shit by ethnics.

[Anonymous No.13535421]

I went to a school in Detroit suburbs that was over 70% black. We never touched the Greeks, or Shakespeare, or any great American authors of the 20th century. We read...

Zora Neale Hurston
Maya Angelou
Edwidge Danticat
Lorraine Hansberry

[Anonymous No.13535462]

>>13535209
>>13535216
>>13535260
>>13535274
God, my high school was disgraceful. I'm reading Tale of Two Cities right now and furious that it was kept from me as a teen.

Freshman: Fahrenheit 451, Frederick Douglass Autobiography 1, Night by Elie Wiesel, R&J, Ayn Randy's Anthem
Sophomore: Scarlet Letter, Brave New World, Raisin in the Sun, Beloved
Junior: Their Eyes Were Watching God, Grapes of Wrath, Invisible Man, Freakonomics, Great Expectations
Senior: Frankenstein, Great Gatsby, Beowulf, The Handmaids Yale, Macbeth, The Wasteland

What was good: Shakespeare, Dickens, Hawthorne, almost everything from my senior year.
What was shit: slavery stuff, Night, Handmaid, everything post 1950
What I should read again: Invisible Man, Gatsby, Brave New World.

[Anonymous No.13535466]

>>13535209
y7 Beowulf, Silver Sword
y8 the Hobbit
y9 I am the Cheese
y10 Wonder
y11 the absolutely true diary of a part time Indian
and then we got to choose for the rest of my schooling. English got pretty shit when I moved to a state school, not that the schooling was much different they just picked really awful books.

[Anonymous No.13535474]

>>13535209
I remember Ray Bradbury short stories and Chris Crutcher's Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes. Also read and loved Shakespeare's MacBeth but now I really enjoy his King John more. Read a lot more unassigned literature, like Steven King and Frank Herbert.

[Anonymous No.13535476]

>>13535209
I had to read As I Lay Dying for a composition class I took in High school at grade 12. I have been a Faulkner fan ever since.

[Anonymous No.13535491]

>>13535421
And people think they're aren't many famous black intellectuals because of race. If only they could read Gatsby, if only.

[Anonymous No.13535496]

>>13535209

I don't remember it was like 20 years ago

[Anonymous No.13535517]

>>13535299
It was his most book like book probably.
>>13535371
ME

[Anonymous No.13535532]

Off the top of my head in no particular order:
Catcher and the Rye: Hated it. Probably should give it a reread now that I'm older, I'm sure a lot of it went over my head.
The Great Gatsby: Good book, hate every character. Definitely went over my head as a kid.
To Kill A Mockingbird: Great.
Farenheit 451: Also good.
The Lovely Bones: This one fucked me up, but I remember it being good although somewhat miserable.
Life of Pi: Fine I guess. Don't remember too much.
Ishmael: Hippy dippy shit.
Cold Sassy Tree: Pretty good.
Call of the Wild: Good.

[Anonymous No.13535550]

9th: Selections of the Odyssey translated into prose, Romeo and Juliet
10th: 12 Angry Men, The Alchemist
11th: Night, In Cold Blood, selected poems from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, selected short stores by Poe and H.P. Lovecraft and Faulkner, A Raisin in the Sun
12th: all of Moby Dick, selected poems by Yeats and Keats and Pope, segments of Ulysses, segments of The Sound and the Fury, and surprisingly some selected sections from Gravity’s Rainbow

In 11th and 12th grade I wasn’t in normal English classes; I was taking the advanced English classes which only a few kids got into (I had like 10 people in my classes with me) by teacher recommendation only. We read all the shit that other kids thought was boring and had to write many book reports and the such. But, whereas the other normal English classes had kids doing busy work, our classes were ordered in a manner where you had a certain amount of time to read X book or X segment and make a report on it, and you could really do anything you wanted to do in class as long as it was legal. Some kids would even just listen to audiobooks of it and bring sleeping bags to lie in. You didn’t even have to read in class, you could play on your phone all day if you wanted

[Anonymous No.13535592]

>>13535474
>I remember Ray Bradbury short stories
I wish they made us read those

[Anonymous No.13535602]

>>13535550
>Some kids would even just listen to audiobooks of it and bring sleeping bags to lie in. You didn’t even have to read in class, you could play on your phone all day if you wanted
Man gifted programs were so fucking worthless. I was in mine and we just played on the computer. One class someone taught us to juggle. Fuck

[Anonymous No.13535617]

I love most of hem that weren't John Green or Jordi Sierra.

>One hundred years of solitude
>The tunel
>The stranger
>The perfume
>Don quixote
>Bad vibes
>Crime and Punishment
>Brave new world

[Anonymous No.13535654]

>>13535602
This wasn’t our school’s equal of gifted classes, but I was in our school’s gifted classes too and I know exactly what you mean. In my 6th grade gifted course our teacher gave us some kind of stupid busywork involving charting a course from our town to Disneyland and finding how many miles it is, where to stop and sleep, where to fill up on gas, and how much it would all cost overall, just to name a few facets of this “project.” Well, one of the things we had to do was pick a vehicle to drive there, and being the curious and outside-of-the-box-thinking little child I was I asked the teacher if I could drive an M1 Abrams tank. She said no and told me to pick a practical car, I told her that it was practical seeing as I could never get caught in a traffic jam for example (we had to calculate traffic jams too), becuase I would blow them up. She said no and I went back to my desk and then asked her if I could do a different vehicle. I asked her if I could do a helicopter, plane, submarine, yacht, train, and many others which she all said no to. My question is: if the gifted program is supposed to encourage smart kids to be original and think more then why would she not let me do my ideas?

I think the gifted program was made for smart kids to receive extra conditioning becuase they are the ones most likely to be unaffected by normal school conditioning. Needless to say, my parents pulled me from the program after this incident and set me up with an out of school program for smart kids which actually encouraged me to be a kid and experiment.

[Anonymous No.13535655]

I don't know. I dropped out then started with the Greeks.

[Anonymous No.13535670]

>>13535654
>I think the gifted program was made for smart kids to receive extra conditioning becuase they are the ones most likely to be unaffected by normal school conditioning.
I feel you man. I pulled myself from the program in grade 7 because it was fucking worthless and a waste of time. If they were really interested in challenging us they would have just skipped us a grade or two ahead.

[Anonymous No.13535680]

>>13535655
HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA POINT AND LAUGH CHILDREN AT THE STUPID PASS USER

[Anonymous No.13535707]

>>13535209
I remember Fahrenheit 451, The Oddysey, The Iliad, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Frankenstein, 1984, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Tale of Two Cities, Catcher in Rye, and The Great Gatsby.
Overall not too bad.

[Anonymous No.13536032]

>>13535462
>Freakonomics

[Anonymous No.13536589]

>>13536032
Yeah I have no idea either. That teacher did some bullshit where he argued that it combines with Grapes of Wrath to create a perfect argument for socialism.

[Anonymous No.13536622]

>>13535654
>I think the gifted program was made for smart kids to receive extra conditioning becuase they are the ones most likely to be unaffected by normal school conditioning.

How are you, a smart kid, able to believe this? You think curriculum panning sessions are run by the elders of Zion or something? Do you not see that the teacher was obliged to teach you Maths and was trying to do it in a flexible way, while you were trying to turn it into a "when will I get caught" Grand Theft Auto simulator? That if she had let you do that she would have neglected part of her duty? That accredited schools are literally not allowed to let you skip Maths in the name of freedom. Your parents supporting you in your delusion only makes it worse. Jesus fuck. America.

[Anonymous No.13536624]

>>13535209

I read awful New Zealand YA fiction and plays that had no literary value whatsoever. No classics; not even Shakespeare. I'm sure we watched more films than read any actual books and my school wasn't even low-decile

[Anonymous No.13536639]

The Outsiders
Edith Hamilton’s Mythology
Scarlet Letter
To Kill a Mockingbird
Romeo & Juliet
There Will Come Soft Rains
Jane Eyre
That’s all I really remember

[Anonymous No.13536758]

Much Ado About Nothing
Animal Farm
Various 18th century British poetry, Tennyson, Poe, the Highwayman
Various NZ poems and short stories, Home Tuwhare, Frank Sargeson, Owen Marshall, Janet Frame, Katherine Mansfield
Merchant of Venice
Of Mice and Men
Death of a Salesman
Great Expectations
The Reader by Schlink
T. A. Eliot
Hamlet
Macbeth
Harold Bloom's literary criticism of Macbeth (I kid you not)
Othello
Feed by M. T. Andersen
In My Father's Den by Maurice Gee
In my last year I did a project on non linear narratives comparing Sound and the Fury, Naked Lunch, and some other stuff

Probably missing a couple but that was most of it. We also studied a bunch of films, the best of which was The Lives of Others and Little Miss Sunshine. I had a wonderful teacher who always pulled strings to get me in his English classes. He loaned me a lot of books as well, like Sunset Express, Blood Meridian, Allen Curnow's poetry, Beatrice and Virgil, Sound and the Fury, Genesis by Bernard Beckett, etc. that I read in my spare time. There was also a thing where you had to read and write about 8-10 books each year.

>>13536624
That's pretty shit, where/when was that?

[Anonymous No.13537028]

>>13535260
>Falling for obvious bait

[Anonymous No.13537041]

>>13536622
He could still have done the assignment if he assumed driving the tank. Of course he would have to figure out how fast such a vehicle goes and how much fuel it spends, but he will still be doing the assigned task, and the teacher refusing this shows that he's not too occupied with his pupils learning.

[Anonymous No.13537094]

>>13535209
Year 10:
To Kill a Mockingbird & Lord of the Flies
Year 11:
Yeats, The Bloody Chamber, Aesop's fairy tales, The Glass Menagerie, Streetcar named desire, As you like it, Handmaid's Tale
Year 12:
The Tempest, Hag-seed, T.S Eliot, The Crucible, Frankenstein, Waiting for Godot

Most of the stuff that we did that was mandated by the government board was god awful. One of the better teachers had to wrangle around with our syllabus to allow us to read better stuff like Frankenstein and T.S Eliot. I don't get why Margret Atwood is so popular among teachers but it was an absolute bludgeoning to have to read.

Good reads: Beckett, Eliot, Yeats, Frankenstein, Tennessee Williams, Shakespeare, Bloody Chamber
Shit: all the rest

[Anonymous No.13537116]

The only books we were forced to read were Aleksis Kivi's Seven Brothers and Väinö Linna's The Unknown Soldier. The rest we could pick and choose from various lists. I ended up with Golding's Lord of the Flies, Page's How I Became Stupid, Orwell's Animal Farm and Vonnegut's Galapagos. I like and liked them all even if none of them is exactly amongst my favourites. The exception is Page, whose book was too much babby's first social critique even for the teenage me.

In addition we had to read some short stories/novellas and a little poetry, but the only one I remember is Mika Waltari's Stranger Came to the Farm, because it's the only one of Waltari's I've read that I actually liked. Some of the poetry was actually lyrics from then hip pop/rock songs, but they were picked with taste and actually provided some food for thought instead of being just chosen to get the kids' attention. I also received a spark to read Eino Leino as the textbook had his poem Ylermi, but my vague recollection says that I actually read through the poems instead of listening to the teacher drone on about whatever and we never actually dealth with Leino in class.

I think we went to the theatre instead of reading any plays. They were all local productions that weren't all that good in my opinion.

[Anonymous No.13537581]

>>13535209
11/22/63
Moneyball
Schindler's Ark/List
Beowulf
Grendel
The Odyssey
Catcher in the Rye
Lolita
Brave New World
Macbeth
Much Ado About Nothing
Crime & Punishment
A Clockwork Orange
The Stranger
Light in August
Antigone

There's probably more that I'm forgetting. Some of these were books we got to choose for specific assignments.

[Anonymous No.13537817]

>>13535216
It's only getting worse. Every year they shoehorn even more garbage books into the curriculum. One of my old high school teachers who I still keep in touch with told me that regular English classes don't even read Gatsby anymore, but they read John Green. Public schools should be nuked.

[Anonymous No.13537821]

>>13537817
>Public schools should be nuked
t. Walton family foundation

[Anonymous No.13537820]

>>13535655
>Buying a pass
LMAO you deserve ridicule.

[Anonymous No.13537840]

>>13535209
>They made us read 1 novel and 1 Shakespeare every year
What the fuck kind of retard school makes you only read two books a year?
We read at least one per month.

I don't remember all of the books we read, but I do remember we read:
Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, Julius Caesar, and Henry V. I'm glad we read so much Shakespeare, I know other people who only read one a year or fewer.

[Anonymous No.13537911]

I don't remember all of them but
The Great Gatsby
Invisible Man
Hamlet
King Lear
The Scarlet Letter
The Crucible
Death of A Salesman
Julius Caesar
Outliers
Frankenstein
The Good Earth
Great Expectations
Catcher in the Rye

[Anonymous No.13538142]

>>13535209
>The House On Mango Street

[Anonymous No.13538150]

>>13537821
t. Goldberg

[Anonymous No.13538163]

i remember reading lots of shakespeare
a midsummer night's dream, macbeth, twelve night, king lear
lots of random poems and short stories. fucking anthologies
lord of the flies
i loved it all. i loved reading and english was my favourite class because i got to read books and discuss them
at sixth form when i did english a level i read the tempest, othello, taming of the shrew, paradise lost, the spire, alan bennett stuff
i loved all that too

i hate the miserable plebs who hated books just because they read them in school
>oh boo hoo a teacher made me read a book now i hate it so much that bastard

[Anonymous No.13538174]

>7 brothers
Absolutely horrible.
>cat and mouse
Quite horrible.
>clockwork orange
Nice.
>slaughterhouse 5
Liked.
>gulliver's travels
Liked.
>waiting for godot
I don't remember, but I guess it was ok.

That's all the books I remember now. It's been almost a decade.

[Anonymous No.13538227]

>>13537116
It was very much like this for me too.
I remember picking and reading Old Man and the Sea, The Trial and Fahrenheit 451.
We also read and discussed Bocaccio's Decamerone and lots of short stories by Chekhov.
We did some poetry but I don't think I learned much about poetry in class.
It's pretty difficult to teach since there isn't really a solid corpus of poetry in Finnish.
>I think we went to the theatre instead of reading any plays.
We went to see Molière's Le Malade imaginaire at the theatre, which was based.

[Anonymous No.13538247]

>>13536622
I still would have done the program and learned the math by driving the tank. It’s not like I would have just shirked all the responsibility of the project by driving a tank, dumbass. I still would have done it, I would have done it in a way that I enjoyed and that gave me more creative freedom though. Nice reading comprehension

[Anonymous No.13538256]

I completely forget. I never read a single book in highschool that had any sort of impact on me. It was all trash. I do remember being somewhat interested in Tim O'Brian's The Things They Carried. And I found The Scarlet Letter's setting to be comfy. But other than that it was all trash, trash , trash.

[Anonymous No.13538954]

>>13535227
>teaching John Green to kids
How did this bullshit become a thing?

[Anonymous No.13539115]

I live in the UK... lets see:

To Kill A Mockingbird in "junior school"
Of Mice and Men for GCSE*
Macbeth for GCSE*
The Great Gatsby for either A Level or GCSE, cant remember*
Mansfield Park for A Level
TS Eliot for A Level*
The Winters Tale for A Level

Those are all I remember. The ones with a * I would still consider "good" , though I haven't reread any except Eliot

[Anonymous No.13539126]

>>13539115
Oh yes and also Chaucer's "The Pardoners Tale" for A Level

[Anonymous No.13539127]

>>13535227
>I have to teach John Green. They don't get Shakespeare until Junior year.
OHNONONONONO THE ABSOLUTE STATE OF AMERICA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA WOW OH WOW

[Anonymous No.13539143]

>>13535462
>Frederick Douglass Autobiography 1, Beloved, Invisible Man
LMAO they really shove that nigger shite down your Burger throats, don't they? You could be reading the Greeks, instead. Absolute state.

[Anonymous No.13539149]

>>13535476
holy mother of BASED

[Anonymous No.13539235]

Public middle and high schools in Toronto, Canada. Public schools in the American sense - not in the bong sense. Most of these titles were forced upon us, some we got to select (from a list of classic literature - I'll indicate those with an *)

7th grade: As You Like It, some Sherlock Holmes

8th grade: Macbeth, some Canadian book

9th grade: Twelfth Night, The Chrysalids, A Tale of Two Cities

10th grade: Julius Caesar, The Great Gatsby, Brave New World, Lolita*

11th grade: Macbeth (again), Romeo and Juliet, 1984, some independent Canadian book from a festival. My teacher was sick 1/3 of the year so we didn't cover as much here

12th grade: Hamlet, The Stranger*, The Trial*, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

At the time I thought A Tale of Two Cities was the best thing I ever read, and it remains the only time I've ever cried from reading a book. I probably wouldn't think the same thing if I read it today but I still have fond memories of it

[Anonymous No.13539265]

>>13539235
>11th grade: Macbeth (again)
based

[Anonymous No.13539294]

We read nothing but victim-lit

>muh trail of tears
>muh slavery
>muh holocaust

Repeat until sick

[Anonymous No.13539300]

>>13535260
>mfw all the public school brainlets seething at this well educated chad

[Anonymous No.13539308]

>>13539265

Yeah. I think it's because grade 8 was middle school and grade 11 was high school so they didn't really communicate on the curriculum. Or maybe it changed as I was going through it. Either way, covering it in grade 8 was more fun because they actually took us to go see a production of the play

[Comrade buttpluck No.13539318]

>>13535227
I had to read John Green too back when I was in high school. It is suffering here in yurop too.

[Anonymous No.13539360]

>>13535209
To Kill a Mockingbird
Midsummer Night's Dream
Romeo and Juliet
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Antigone
Julius Caesar
Heart of Darkness
The Pearl
All the King's Men
Slaughterhouse Five
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Scarlet Letter
A Tale of Two Cities
The Road
Dante's Inferno
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Thank You for Arguing
Jane Eyre
A Doll's House
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Native Guard

I think there were others but these are the ones I remember. I only read a few in their entirety. I could always get high scores on the essays just by reading maybe half of the book and then listening in class to what the teacher's interpretation was. Irony and satire were always top-tier devices to use as evidence for any essay. I took gifted/AP for all of my English courses so we read more books.

[Anonymous No.13539415]

>>13535209
Btw why do americans play big deal about catcher in the rye? Writing was horrible, plot was shit. No real message either.
Not to sound contrarian or smth just curious

[Anonymous No.13539416]

>>13535209
What the fuck, we had to read like one classic every single week and do a detailed report or you get failed. American education really is easy mode

[Anonymous No.13539421]

Cry, My Beloved Country and Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon were the only decent “diversity” books I found to be interesting reads in High School The rest just seemed really forced and mediocre at best

[Anonymous No.13539432]

>>13539415
The writing was supposed to mimick how a teenager in the 50s would do it. Also, reading for the plot proves you're a pleb.

[Anonymous No.13539666]

>>13535209
Freshman: To Kill a Mockingbird, Ethan Frome, Pride and Prejudice, A long way gone, Macbeth

Sophomore: Scarlett Letter, The Crucible, Invisible Man, Heart of Darkness, a bunch of O’Connor short stories, poetry unit

Junior: Their eyes were watching god, gatsby, in cold blood, othello, poetry unit

Senior: a bunch Vonnegut short stories, DADOES, 1984, Play unit (doll house, cyrano, the visit)

I have a few favorites but we did a whole lot of boring lit (ESPECIALLY Frome)

[Anonymous No.13539699]

>>13539666
>The Crucible
>those digits

[Anonymous No.13539722]

>>13539432
Sorry im not native english kek, i just try to justify bad books with atleast they have good plot
Yes i know it was trying to mimick teenager, yet i cant relate to it as he protraits him like 70iq retard.
I just dont see whats so special about the book. Wow life of teenager is full of struggle nothing new

[Anonymous No.13539730]

>>13539722
it was published in 1951. it was new for the times. sorry you had to sit through many teenage soap operas that fried your brains.

[Anonymous No.13539743]

>>13538163
What was English A level like? I didn't do it, instead I did Maths, Further Maths, German and Physics. German had elements of literature (reading Kafka) and history as well so I was quite happy with my choices, but I had considered English for a long time.

[Anonymous No.13539746]

>>13539115
I'll also ask you this >>13539743

[Anonymous No.13539783]

>Junior School: don't remember all of them but I do remember Holes and I Know What You Did Last Wednesday by Anthony Horowitz
>Year 7: Kindertransport, Jake's Tower, A Midsummer Night's Dream and some poetry I think
>Year 8: The Importance of Being Earnest, Private Peaceful, Animal Farm, some poetry, Romeo and Juliet
>Year 9: Of Mice And Men, some poetry, some Sherlock Holmes stories, Othello
>GCSE: The Sign of the Four, An Inspector Calls, some poetry including Ozymandias, Charge of the Light Brigade, Exposure and some other pretty based ones plus your obligatory ethnic Brit shite, Macbeth
Looking back that wasn't great. I liked Animal Farm and Of Mice And Men when we were reading them but I didn't like Shakespeare until Year 11

[Anonymous No.13539793]

>>13539746
Pretty shitty. I got an A* in my English Lit GCSE but only a C at A Level. I just remember it being difficult and boring. Only 6 people in my whole school did English at A Level and I was the only boy. I wanted to do Psychology at Uni but my C in English meant I didn't get the grades for it. So I had to do my reserve choice at Uni instead which was... drum roll... English. Ended up getting a high 2:1 then an MA in it. The A-Level was by far the toughest English exam I've ever done.

[Anonymous No.13540603]

>>13539415
>plot

[Anonymous No.13540998]

>>13537840
we didn't even read one book per year
i read like three books in total in school

[Anonymous No.13541003]

>>13535209
Where did you go to school where you only had to read one book a year? Not even America is so bad.

[Anonymous No.13541020]

>>13541003
Ottawa. We read more than that, but as far as "books" it was 2 a year. 1 novel, 1 Shakespeare play. They would also show us movie adaptations. English class was a bit of a joke honestly.

[Anonymous No.13541026]

>>13541003
i'm >>13540998
went to school in germany

[Anonymous No.13541045]

>>13541026
How the fuck is that even possible

[Anonymous No.13541167]

We read lots of different stuff at my school, but my favourites were Faust, Irrungen, Wirrungen, The Royal Game, Draußen vor der Tür, Macbeth and Men in the Sun

[Anonymous No.13541204]

Noticing a lot of people liked MacBeth

[Anonymous No.13541216]

>>13535209
i didn't read a single book in hs

[Anonymous No.13541577]

Like a poster before me I'm going to use an asterisk to denote books that I chose from a given list.

9th: To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men, snippets from the Odyssey, Romeo and Juliet, Animal Farm

10th: Oedipus and Antigone, Lord of the Flies, parts of Dante's Inferno, Macbeth, The Power and the Glory*, Alice in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass*

11th: East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath*, The Great Gatsby, The Crucible, and we all got to choose some forgettable nonfiction book to write a report on. Early in the year we covered a bunch of smaller works by Emerson, Thoreau, Whittier, etc.

12th: King Lear*, Watership Down*, Their Eyes Were Watching God*, The Glass Menagerie, Death of a Salesman, A Raisin in the Sun, Fahrenheit 451,Brave New World, Hamlet, Frankenstein, A Doll's House, Pygmalion, a bunch of poems from the Romantics / Victorians, Heart of Darkness

Memory might be causing me to list more for 12th grade but that was an actual literature class. If the Steinbeck seems excessive that's probably because I'm from California.

[Anonymous No.13541584]

>>13541216
based CliffsnotesChad