<p>Hello HSL! </p>
<p>We just finished reading Othello in my AP Lit class and are currently reading Heart of Darkness. Which required books/plays/short stories/collections of poems are you currently reading?</p>
<p>Just finished Ishmael… didn’t really like it that much. I typically am open to books and enjoy the requried reading, but I’m not a philosophy person. Didn’t despise it, just didn’t enjoy it.</p>
<p>finishing up A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce
next is crime and punishment
that would be our eighth book >.<</p>
<p>We’re doing Heart of Darkness next which I’m uber excited for. Is it as good as critics say it is?</p>
<p>The freshmen at my school read Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, and Romeo and Juliet.
I wasn’t crazy about Animal Farm. I have higher hopes for the other two books.</p>
<p>Last year: Great Expectations and this weird fairly short book I can’t remember the name of -__-
This year: Pride and Prejudice, Taming of the Shrewd</p>
<p>We just finished Hamlet, we’re now moving onto Night, Sidhartha and Crime and Punishment. (You either read both Night and Sidhartha or Crime and Punishment.)</p>
<p>We’re just finishing Hamlet, and so far this year we’ve read Beowulf, Grendel (modern novel that retells Beowulf from the monster’s point of view), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and The Canterbury Tales.</p>
<p>Scarlet Letter, Catcher in the Rye, The Things They Carried…and like 4 more idr</p>
<p>Ooops… I meant MacBeth. We have also read Farenheit 451.</p>
<p>Crime and Punishment</p>
<p>And how could you not like Animal Farm and Lord of the Flies? Just reading your post made me want to go and reread the two.</p>
<p>This year in AP Lit we’ve read:</p>
<p>Crime and Punishment
Beowulf / Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Hamlet
Frankenstein
Candide
Pride & Prejudice (only excerpts)</p>
<p>Next semester I know we will read Wuthering Heights, but otherwise I do not know.</p>
<p>We’ve also read a plethora of poems.</p>
<p>2 years ago (freshman): When the Legends Die, Romeo and Juliet</p>
<p>Last (sophomore) year: Lord of the Flies; Cry, the Beloved Country; The Fall; Antigone; Bless Me, Ultima; Julius Caesar; 1984 (Group Project)</p>
<p>This year (so far): The Crucible, Slaughterhouse-Five (Independent Reading Project)</p>
<p>We’re reading the Catcher in the Rye. Before that we read The Great Gatsby. Both pretty good books!</p>
<p>@aspire2011: We just got our books two days ago and aren’t very far along in the reading. I can’t comment on the book as a whole just yet, but I will say that Conrad’s writing is exquisite; the language he employs is quite beautiful.</p>
<p>We got to pick our summer reading book. Then we read Othello, Leaves of Grass, and just finished Moby Dick today. And now I must pick a term paper book by Friday…</p>
<p>We talked a lot about our summer reading at the beginning of the year: Frederick Douglass, The Tipping Point, Glass Castle/Same Kind of Different As Me</p>
<p>Into The Wild
The Awakening</p>
<p>We’re finishing up The Things They Carried, and checking out 1984 next week.</p>
<p>So far we’ve done Beloved, Hamlet, Brave New World, and Turn of the Screw.
We just finished analyzing The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock & To His Coy Mistress.
We’re starting To The Lighthouse, which I am super excited for. </p>
<p>^Luckyyy, 1984 is an amazing book.</p>
<p>The Great Gatsby, Crime & Punishment, now we’re doing Macbeth</p>
<p>Finished Crime and Punishment, Grapes of Wrath, Jane Eyre, and a poetry unit. We’re currently reading Billy Budd (ugh…) and we’ll read The Stranger, Frankenstein, and The Importance of Being Earnest by the end of the semester (end of January).</p>
<p>This is the most work-loaded class I’ve ever been in.</p>