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You are put in charge of a high school English class, what 5 books do you chose to have your students read?

>> No.17567603

uh, 5 books is a lot for a high school english class so they will have to be very short

>> No.17567611

>>17567598
You first you piece of shit.

>> No.17567620

OP is, once again, a fag

>> No.17567643
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>>17567598
Fantômas
Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Thief
And Then There Were None (or Murder on the Orient Express, they cover similar subject)
Lerouge Case
and just so no one catches on to what I am doing... The Great Gatsby

>> No.17567645

>>17567620
and also gay.

>> No.17567650

>>17567598
>othello
>tale of two cities
>heart of darkness
>beowulf
>gatsby

>> No.17567661

>>17567598
1. Beowulf
2. Cantebury Tales
3. Hamlet
4. Moby Dick
5. Gravity's Rainbow

>> No.17567665

>>17567643
>>17567650
>>17567661
Plebs

>> No.17567666

>>17567598
>5
That's gonna be tough, and I'll need to put them on a strict schedule, but:
>Moby Dick
>Hamlet
>The Iliad
>The Odyssey
>Forward the Foundation

>> No.17567689

1) Excerpts from KJV, probably Gospels or Poetic books, psalms
2) Hamlet
3) King Lear
4) Emma by Jane Austen
5) Moby Dick by Melville

>> No.17567697

>>17567666
>>17567689
Plebeian scum dogs

>> No.17567699

>>17567697
Kill yourself or post something.

>> No.17567702

>>17567665
They’re kids, for gods sake!

>> No.17567706

>>17567598
the first five harry potter books

>> No.17567716

>>17567699
Shut your fucking mouth.
>>17567702
They're not children it's high school.
>>17567598
Post your 5 books you fuck.

>> No.17567726

my diary desu vols 1 - 5

>> No.17567730

>King Lear
>Pride and Prejeudice
>To the Lighthouse
>Dubliners
>Gatsby

>> No.17567732
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Tin Drum
The Ginger man
Svejk
The third policeman
The golden bough

>> No.17567734

The Odyssey
Dracula/Frankenstein/20 000 leagues
Watchmen
The Cute Girl Network

>> No.17567738

>>17567598
If I had from September to June, I would pick:
>Hamlet by William Shakespeare
>A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
>A Portrait of The Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce
>Selections of The Canterbury Tales
>A Collection of Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist poetry

>> No.17567743

>>17567738
>>A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Am I the only one who finds this book boring?

>> No.17567759

>>17567661
This poster is in highschool

>> No.17567771

>>17567706
>>17567716
Good
>>17567730
>>17567732
>>17567734
>>17567738
Terrible

>> No.17567775
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>> No.17567784

>Guns, Germs, Steel
>Fahrenheit 451
>Night
>Heaven is for Real
>The God Delusion

>> No.17567799

>>17567598
War and Peace
Don Quixote
In Search of Lost Time
The Recognitions
Against the Day

That should cover the first week of class anyway.

>> No.17567849

The Need for Roots - Simone Weil
Philosophy of Social Ecology - Murray Bookchin
The Social Construction of Reality - Peter L. Berger & Thomas Luckmann Growth of the Soil - Knut Hamsun
Looking for Alaska - John Michael Green

>> No.17567901
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— «THE FOUNTAINHEAD», BY: AYN RAND.

— «ENOUGH ROPE», BY: DOROTHY PARKER.

— «THE PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN», BY: JAMES JOYCE.

— «THE CATCHER IN THE RYE», BY: JEROME DAVID SALINGER.

— «LOLITA», BY: VLADIMIR NABOKOV.

>> No.17567910

>>17567901
>— «[A] PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN», BY: JAMES JOYCE.

>> No.17567922

Mein Kampf five times

>> No.17568898

I will definetly add No more mr nice guy so they don't become gay.

>> No.17568902

>>17567901
>>17567910
you are obnoxious to read

>> No.17568904

>>17567598
The Oxford English Dictionary, finnegans wake, the life of Samuel Johnson, Lolita and green eggs and ham.

>> No.17568914

>>17567598
Las Tumbas
À rebours
Macтep и Mapгapитa
Meu Pé de Laranja Lima
百億の昼と千億の夜

>> No.17569043

>>17568914
>мacтep и мapгapитa
so you're raising the next reddit generation, I take it? poкoвыe яйцa or bust

>> No.17569071

>>17567598
Moby Dick, Shadow over Innsmouth, Hamlet, Dracula and anything Verne probably 20k leagues under the sea.

>> No.17569076

>>17567598
I literally teach English in a high school, and I don't know. Kids are such uninvolved and slow readers nowadays.

>> No.17569078

>>17567643
>>17567666
>>17567732
>>17567734
>>17567799
>>17567849
>>17568914


THE HYPOTHETICAL POSES THE SETTING OF AN ENGLISH CLASS —WHY DO YOU POST WORKS NOT CREATED IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE?

>> No.17569086

Story of the eye
120 days of Sodom
The Consumer
Fanged Noumena
Hesiod's Theogony

>> No.17569101

>>17569043
Originally I was going to say "The Diary of Satan", but I have no fucking clue how to write it in russian, M&M was the second book that came to mind.

>> No.17569109

Divine Comedy
Faust
The Count of Monte Cristo
War & Peace
Don Quixote

English literature is trash anyway, they may as well get a decent education instead.

>> No.17569116

>>17569076
They have too many distractions, but also the issue is that kids prefer either books that make them imagine a wild adventure and/or feature characters around their age and in situations that are close to their own experience, something most books in school don't have.
My generation is from before social networking, yet even they were mostly uninterested when it came to reading, the only book I can remember they were genuinely enthusiastic about was Wir kinder wom Banhof Zoo, biography about young people stuck in hell of drug addiction.

>> No.17569123

>>17567598
Catcher in the Rye
The Once and Future King
The Three Musketeers
Pale Fire
Shogun

>> No.17569132

>>17569078
Because no one in their right mind would ask me to choose books for a class, so I just imagined one where I finally get people to discuss my favorites.

>> No.17569147

>>17567598
>a tramp abroad
>the old man and the sea
>the histories
>king lear

>> No.17569151

>>17567598
East of Eden
The Pale King
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Valis
Mein Kampf

>> No.17569153

>>17567598
For modern high schoolers?
>The Lord of the Files (which I actually read for a high school class)
>The Grapes of Wrath
>The Sirens of Titan
>A Moveable Feast
>Moby Dick
Imo you should try to use writers that high schools already assign, but use their more complex works. Minus Melville, who I think everyone should read.

>> No.17569156

Hamlet, Catcher in the Rye, something by Jane Austen (I haven't read anything by her, but young women love that shit), For Whom the Bell Tolls, and a wide selection of poetry to be covered over a few weeks.

>> No.17569172

>>17567598
What's the grade level OP?

>> No.17569174

>>17567598
Genesis
Job
Matthew
Luke
John

>> No.17569175

>>17567598
Game of Thrones
Some Star Wars EU books
Twin Peaks books
Strange Death of Europe
Harry Potter

>> No.17569176

>>17569078
We have a Serbian class. The reading list is far wider than just work that are natively Serbian. You're fucking retarded.

>> No.17569177

Beowulf
Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
The Bible KJV
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
Paradise Lost by John Milton

>> No.17569187

>>17567598
MAD
Guns N Ammo
Hustler
The Farmer's Almanac
The Scholastic book fair order catalogue

>> No.17569200
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>>17569176


?

IT WOULD BE AN ENGLISH CLASS; IT WOULD BE ONLY LOGICAL TO READ ANGLO LITERATURE AS IT WOULD BE TO READ HISPANICAL LITERATURE FOR A SPANISH CLASS; GERMANIC LITERATURE FOR A GERMAN CLASS; JAPANESE LITERATURE FOR A JAPANESE CLASS, ET CETERA; YOUR CASE CAN BE RATIONALIZED BY THE FACT THAT SERBIAN IS AN INSIGNIFICANT LANGUAGE WITH NEGLIGIBLE LITERATURE.

>> No.17569232

>>17569078
I did a book report on "L'etranger" for my English class and got an A+ faggot

>> No.17569238

>>17569076
Most are lost cause, but you can easily get the edgy ones. Use psychology. Pick "appropriate" books, then give them ample warnings about how SEXIST, RACIST and ABHORRENT, DECADENT and REPULSIVE some of the views presented are. Then watch as
these little fucks will start spending recess reading.

>> No.17569242

>>17569200
>THE FACT THAT SERBIAN IS AN INSIGNIFICANT LANGUAGE WITH NEGLIGIBLE LITERATURE
You genuinely are retarded. Take your trip and your own life.

>> No.17569253

The bible.

>> No.17569472

>>17569200
lol, i remember seeing you on some board when i was pretty new to 4chan and wondering who is this annoying retard. you really haven’t changed

>> No.17569478

>>17567598
White Fragility
So You Want to Talk About Race
How the Irish Became White
Race Traitor
Antiracist Baby

>> No.17569490

>>17569472
>new to for 4chan
Yikes
Hahahahahahabahahahahahahahahahahhaha

>> No.17569494

>>17569200
based

>> No.17569503

>>17569472
Let me guess: a year ago?

>> No.17569611

>>17567598
A handful of plays by Shakespeare
The Coquette
Of Mice and Men
Watchmen and/or Maus
Less Than Zero

>> No.17569641

>>17569200
>YOUR CASE CAN BE RATIONALIZED BY THE FACT THAT SERBIAN IS AN INSIGNIFICANT LANGUAGE WITH NEGLIGIBLE LITERATURE
never thought you'd say anything of value
nice

>> No.17569645

>>17567598
1984
Catcher in the Rye
Pale Fire
Lord of the Flies
Watchmen

>> No.17569670

>>17569503
last week actually

>> No.17569693
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>>17569200
Best /lit/ trip

>> No.17569704

>>17567598
>Macbeth
>Spoon River Anthology
>The Master and Margarita
>The Crying of Lot 49
>some selected Sherlock Holmes stories

>> No.17569713

>>17569200
Are you a c-bro?

>> No.17569725

Dragon ball super

>> No.17569751

Fag.

>> No.17569768

>>17569478
SO CLAP MUCH CLAP THIS CLAP

>> No.17569805
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This entire thread has such basic taste.

>>17567598
I make them read Lolita 5 times until one of them gets the hint

>> No.17569851

>>17567598
I'd forget about teaching them English and I'd teach them Latin instead. People started becoming brainlets when we replaced Latin with English.

>> No.17570461

>>17569078
It's not just about being in English, it's about the literary content.

>> No.17570550

>>17567598
I pick whatever, I'm just here to flirt with sexy highschool girls

>> No.17570580

>>17569805
Based. Get them nymphets wet

>> No.17570623

>>17567598
it would depend on if it was a language or literature class in general

beowulf
the twelfth night (any shakespeare really i just like this one for some reason)
paradise lost
middlemarch
a christmas carol (any dickens that influenced society/culture)

>> No.17570711

>>17567598
>a river runs through it by maclean
>a month in the country by carr
>lost horizon by hilton
>the great gatsby
>the sun also rises
it should be a crime to be an american and never have read a river runs through it

>> No.17570722

>>17569153
Best answer


>Storm of Steel
>This side of Paradise
>The Old man and the sea
>Things Fall Apart
>the Kite Runner

>> No.17571020

The first five pages of Finnegan's Wake

>> No.17571059

>the entire thread is people listing books that are already on curriculums

>> No.17571066

>>17569645
lol'd

>> No.17571142

>>17571059
What's wrong with teaching kids the classics, like shakespeare or fitzgerald? They're taught for a reason desu.

>> No.17571193

>>17571059
There is a school that has kids read Fantômas? Damn, that's cool.

>> No.17571240

>>17567775
Based.

>> No.17571311

Odyssey
Portrait of the Artist
Macbeth
On the Road
Crime and Punishment

>> No.17571360

Gulag Archipelago
Ulysses
Good Morning Midnight
Infinite Jest (two times)
Crime and Punishment

>> No.17571385

All five volumes of my diary desu.

>> No.17572211

In the following order:
>Mythology
>The Odyssey
>Antigone
>Hamlet (or any Shakespeare)
>A Tale of Two Cities

>> No.17572443

Gulag Archipelago vol 1-3 like Russian HS kids have to read
Moby Dick
Brave New World

>> No.17572626

Dubliners
Portrait of the artist
Ulysses
Finnegans wake
Joyce's letters about farts

>> No.17573969

>>17567598
Illiad
Beowulf
Julius Caesar
Lord of the flies
Sections from Alfred the Greats biography written by Asser
(For UK school)

>> No.17573977

>>17571059
Show me where in the OP it states they have to be original ideas

>> No.17574054

>>17567598
Realizing now how based my 9th English teacher was. Made us read Tolkien, Shakespeare, and mythology, btfod me when I wrote some proto critical theory shit on an essay. rest of highschool was blatantly feminist jew shit

>> No.17575176

>>17573969
Why Alfred the Great?

>> No.17575897

Flowers for Algernon
Frankenstein
Animal Farm
Lord of the Flies
(Approved Classical Literature of your choice totaling at least 250 pages)

>> No.17575934

Complete works of Milton
Complete works of Shakespeare
Complete works of Edmund Spenser
Complete works of Thomas Browne
Complete works of Chaucer

>> No.17575994

>>17567901
>>17567910
>>17569078
>>17569200
Super Basado

>> No.17576022

Please source, sir she is beautiful lanyard

>> No.17576068

>>17567598
The Illiad
Don Quixote
Crime and Punishment
Les Miserables
Faust
>All in their original languages