<p>Yeah, I think the teacher put that on the list simply because The Color Purple and The Awakening are more female-oriented. Personally, I'm still trying to decide the lesser of the two evils.</p>
<p>Even though we're a public school, we have to read the Bible. From a "purely literary perspective."</p>
<p>I have to read and annotate The Road by Cormac McCarthy, A Man For All Seasons by Robert Bolt, and pick between The Fountainhead, Prince of Tides, and Poisonwood Bible and do the same for my choice, which was Prince of Tides. Then there are a couple essays for each book.</p>
<p>I think having to read the bible only on a "pure literature" level is kind of off. After all, it is a religious text... I don't think some people might appreciate the bible being used as a "novel" for an English class...I personally don't think the word of God was created for analysis and English class discussions... if you are going to analyze it, then it should be done strictly on a religious level...IMO.</p>
<p>OH and plus, there are countless stories where people's lives are changed from reading the bible... and once you start a class discussion on some of the things in the bible, wouldn't it lead to controversy and religious differences?</p>
<p>oh and we had to read A Separate Peace, Jane Eyre, Antigone, Tale of Two Cities and Huckleberry Finn for 9th and 10th grade English classes. I think our summer assignment was to read speeches from Presidential elections and identify rhetorics lol.</p>
<p>I don't think we're really going to discuss the bible like a novel or analyze it, it's just so that we can understand biblical allusions in other books... still, I can see how some people might have a problem with it.</p>
<p>we had to read Moby Dick and answer ~150 detailed questions. Nobody read it (I read ~5 pages). We also had to memorize 200+ vocabulary words.</p>
<p>AP Lit assignment is worse. We have to read 3 books (i dont remember the titles), read the Bible, answer some questions on the Bible and those books, memorize and define 150+ vocab words, and some other crap. Summer assignments will kill my summer (or parts of my summer)</p>
<p>For Language: We have to read Tortilla Curtain and write a two page + essay about something about it (I forgot, its like themes or imagery or something).</p>
<p>for ib english 11 we have to read
a chronicle of a death fortold
the great gatsby
the bell jar
the kiss of the spider woman
+
a literary terms packet
an allusions packet referring to greek myths</p>
<p>AND
we have to annotate the great gatsby and teh bell jar as we read!!</p>
<p>omg The Great Gatsby + The Bell Jar = best summer reading ever. Am jealous.</p>