<p>We just finished the Scarlet Letter and are already halfway done with The Great Gatsby.
I have to say, this class is much more interesting than last year's. </p>
<p>This is our whole schedule for the year (is not to be done in order):
Writing / Grammar Unit
Macbeth (1623) by William Shakespeare
The Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Native Son (1940) by Richard Wright
A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) by Tennessee Williams
Death of a Salesman (1949) by Arthur Miller
The Crucible (1953) by Arthur Miller
Poetry Unit
College Essay Unit
Regents Preparation
OUTSIDE READING ASSIGNMENT: Choice of: 1) Lolita (1958) by Vladimir Nabokov, 2) Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller, or 3) The Woman Warrior (1976) by Maxine Hong Kingston</p>
<p>Last year in Junior English honors, among others, Gatsby, Huck Finn, Scarlet Letter, Poe, Socrates, Antigone, etc. And Catcher in the Rye! I loved Catcher in the Rye.</p>
<p>This year, so far:</p>
<p>The Importance of Being Earnest, Oedipus Rex, Merchant of Venice, Taming of the Shrew, The Metamorphosis, The Trial, Frankenstein, A Man for All Seasons, Kite Runner, and a few more, can't remember. AP Lit is a very prolific class in terms of reading. A lot of it.</p>
<p>So far we've done (sophomore year) Lord of the Flies, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Inferno, Siddartha, and The Awakening - later I think we've got My Name Is Asher Lev, and a Utopia/Dystopia unit with 1984, Brave New World, Anthem, et cetera.</p>
<p>silentsailor- my name is asher lev is an incredible book. I'm a HUGE potok fan. hope you enjoy it:)</p>
<p>anyway, my lit class this year has read:
Equus by Peter Schauffer
The Collector by John Fowles
King Lear by Shakespeare
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque</p>
<p>This year was our writing semester. We didn't read as many books because we spent a long time working on term papers. So next semester we'll get through more novels, I'm sure.</p>
<p>My class (Junior honors English) is reading some pretty cool stuff.</p>
<p>The Taming of the Shrew
Oedipus
Antigone
Madame Bovary
The Heart of the Matter
On The Beach
Jane Eyre
Moby Dick
Medea
The Lord of the Flies
Native Son
Gulliver's Travels</p>
<p>We're in a poetry unit right now though, and are just about to start a research project on it.</p>
<p>English 10 Honors: Grendel, Beowulf, Henry V, and the Edith Hamilton book on Greek Mythology (which is A LOT to go through)</p>
<p>English 20IB: Pride and Prejudice, The Wars, Agamemnon, Macbeth, Heart of Darkness</p>
<p>English 35IB: Death in Venice, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Hamlet, A Doll's House, the Chekhov Stories (The Bet, The Beggar, The Grasshopper, The Lady with the Dog, The Kiss, Happiness)</p>
<p>and next semester I have English 30IB.... </p>
<p>We don't read a whole lot of books but we analyse them quite intensely. Plus we regularly do poetry commentaries, so we get that too.</p>
<p>So far this school year, I've read Oedipus Rex, Jane Eyre, along with a bunch of short stories.... Right now we're doing fairy tales... don't ask why... but its actually fun to read the real versions of the story versus watching go-happy Disney movies.</p>
<p>Heart of Darkness is awesome. I did my IOP on it! </p>
<p>Edit: Right. IOP = Internal Oral Presentation. This, along with your Oral Commentary, World Lit Papers (1+2), and Exams (Papers 1 + 2) make up your final IB grade.</p>
<p>Brave New World
Siddhartha
The Stranger
Oedipus Rex
Heart of Darkness
King Lear
Various types of poetry
(eventually)
Waiting for Godot
Hamlet
A couple more novels</p>
<p>Our outside reading is our own choice from a specified list. Every three weeks we become masters of a different author's work- it's pretty cool.</p>
<p>I initially disliked Heart of Darkness, but he has a certain mastery with words. (And contrary to popular belief, it isn't a racist book..)</p>