<p>What level English Course are you? (College Prep / Basic, Honors, AP, etc)</p>
<p>AP Lang & Comp: Catcher in the Rye and The Bell Jar were both summer assignments. We’ve read The Scarlet Letter and Huckleberry Finn. We will be reading The Sun Also Rises.</p>
<p>Oh I see. I read Catcher in the Rye on my own time, the summer before Freshman Year. I strongly disliked the major character, and for me to get on well with a novel, I have to have some liking or connection to the main character, I heard others loved it though.</p>
<p>I took a couple college lit classes this semester through dual enrollment, read things like Candide, Gilgamesh, Goethe’s Faust, Beowulf, Canterbury Tales, The Tempest, The Odyssey (epic poem form), Tartuffe, a few others, a bunch of short stories, and a bunch of poems.</p>
<p>I liked Catcher in the Rye a lot. I read it in 8th grade, and I felt I understood it much better this year. I haven’t read much on my own this year, but I did read A Farewell to Arms and The Great Gatsby, which was great. I have a stack of other books that I’m hoping to tackle this summer.</p>
<p>AP Lang & Comp. This year we read The Grapes of Wrath, Blackboy, Huck Finn, and Death Of a Salesman. It’s only four books, but my teacher really likes to examine the undertones, satire and all that rhetoric stuff.</p>
<p>I’m a sophomore (rising junior) in US Literature Honors.
Our honors program works so that I’m in the regular US Literature class but the honors students have extra homework/essays/projects that are presented to the teacher after or before class.
So for our regular US Literature class, we had to read The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, the Scarlet Letter, March, The Great Gatsby, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and Walden, along with a bunch of short stories and poems.
In addition, the honors students had to read Huck Finn, a 19th century novel (mine was The House of Mirth), and a 20th century poetry book (mine was “is 5” by e.e. cummings)</p>
<p>AP Lang: Narrative of Frederick Douglass, The Glass Castle, The Tipping Point, Into The Wild, The Awakening, 1984, The Kite Runner (already had read it), Julius Caesar (in-class), Cry The Beloved Country (our current and last).</p>
<p>We got the AP Lit course booklist for next year. It’s daunting, but one of the AP Lit teachers reminds me of Keating from Dead Poets’ Society– I want him to be my teacher sooo badly ahhhh</p>
<p>I’m a freshman in Pre-AP English I. Our summer reading was To Kill a Mockingbird, and over the year we’ve read Lord of the Flies, The Odyssey, Fahrenheit 451, and Romeo and Juliet. We also had to choose a fantasy/adventure book (I read Stephen King’s The Gunslinger).</p>
<p>Oh, I’m in Honors English 9 (currently a Freshman) and we read the Odyssey, To Kill a Mockingbird, but I read Lord of the Flies on my own time, and I read Romeo and Juliet in 7th Grade.</p>
<p>AP English Language & Composition: Memoirs of a Geisha, Angela’s Ashes, The Fountainhead, The Good Earth, The awakening(Worst Book Ever!!!), and Farewell to Arms.</p>
<p>IB HL year 2: the stranger, mayor of casterbridge, hamlet, much ado about nothing, handmaid’s tale</p>
<p>I really want to read Angela’s Ashes, but I somehow ended up toting home “All Souls; a Family Story from Southie” - it was an alright book, but I’m intent on reading Angela’s Ashes this summer.</p>
<p>AP literature - all the pretty horses, candide, macbeth, cyrano debergerac, the stranger, heart of darkness and there’s more just totally forgetting.</p>
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<p>Did you love Candide as much as I did?</p>
<p>AP English Lang & Comp: The Crucible, Huckleberry Finn, The Scarlet Letter, The Awakening, The Great Gatsby, Death of a Salesman</p>
<p>The Scarlet Letter, The Crucible, and Huck Finn. During the summer, I have to read The Illiad and I think in APENG12, we’ll read Hamlet. and more.</p>
<p>The senior year courses in my school are AP Lit or you choose 2 one-semester courses that are of specific genres or whatever and supposedly college level. I took Poetry and we had a huge anthology of hundreds of poems so we just read a loooot of poems from so many different authors. Now I’m in Drama which is all plays. Some works done in this class- the three “Theban plays”, Lysistrata, Hamlet, A Doll House, The Glass Menagerie</p>
<p>In my Contemporary Lit class: Brave New World, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Sound and the Fury, The Bluest Eye, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, 1984, and Life of Pi.</p>
<p>The Sun Also Rises, Hamlet, Frankenstein, The Great Gatsby, King Lear, and some other book we’re gonna read next that I forgot the name too. I’m in English 4 Honors</p>