What books do you typically read as a high school freshman in English?
Catcher in the Rye (yuck), To Kill a Mockingbird, Romeo and Juliet. I forget what else my class read. (Mockingbird and Romeo and Juliet were part of the nationwide collegeboard springboard curriculum that many schools use).
I read The Odyssey, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Alchemist and Romeo and Juliet
We were also supposed to read Fahrenheit 451 and A Tale of Two Cities but my teacher just decided not to .-.
My school read Romeo and Juliet, Night, Animal Farm, The Odyssey, and Of Mice And Men, along with smaller short stories.
I read Midsummer Nights Dream, Catcher in the Rye, True Grit, The Ofyssey, The Bible…
Romeo and Juliet, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, the Odyssey, OMAM. Maybe there was something else? We read TKAM in eighth grade.
Julius Caesar, Fahrenheit 451, The Catcher in the Rye, Antigone, Night, Animal Farm, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, a bunch of poems, several short stories and letters
My class read The Odyssey, Escape from Camp 14, 1984, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
We read Romeo and Juliet, the Odyssey (not even the full Odyssey, just bits and pieces), and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
The Old Man and the Sea, TKAM, The Odyssey, Oedipus, American Born Chinese, The Importance of Being Earnest, Of Mice and Men, The House on Mango Street, and Romeo and Juliet.
Freshman year is always Ancient Literature. It’s the only English curriculum that hasn’t changed.
Everybody starts with Gilgamesh, then The Odyssey, then Oedipus Rex/Antigone, then Julius Caesar, then Grendel, and finally a brief review of the New Testament. I may be forgetting a few, but I think that’s most of them.
Update: I have heard at my school one of the books we read is The Lord of The Flies
I read Fahrenheit 451, Macbeth, Kindred, Zeitoun, Of Mice and Men, and Anthem…but my English teacher was incredibly unconventional
My school did To Kill A Mockingbird, Romeo and Juliet, Cyrano de Bergerac, Animal Farm, and The House on Mango Street
We read Animal Farm, Romeo & Juliet, and To Kill a Mockingbird
The Book Thief, Animal Farm, Romeo and Juliet, To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men, I Know why the Caged Bird Sings.
I remember reading TKAM, Romeo And Juliet, House On Mango Street, Of Mice And Men, A Separate Peace, The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime. It’s interesting reading everyone’s responses; I read Animal Farm in eighth grade, and I didn’t read Fahrenheit 451, Night, The Odyssey, or Catcher In The Rye until sophomore year.
I agree with the above. I read TKAM in eighth, and I thought everybody did.
I don’t know what honors students read because I took regular English in my freshman year. I think my school was pretty far behind for everyone, though. Of the books people have mentioned, these are the ones I’ve read and when I read them:
Freshman regular English: Romeo and Juliet.
Sophomore honors English: The Book Thief, Julius Caesar, Lord of the Flies.
Junior honors English: To Kill A Mockingbird.
AP English Literature: Fahrenheit 451, Lord of the Flies again, Oedipus Rex.