<p>what books were you required to read in high school?</p>
<p>Cannery Row, 1984, Island, The Metamorphosis, The Judgment, The Grapes of Wrath, Brave New World, The Awakening, Point Counter Point, The Sound and The Fury, Candide, Things Fall Apart, The Kite Runner, A People’s History of the United States, Marxism and Literary Criticism, The Taming of the Shrew, Othello, Death of A Salesman, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Tess Of The D’urbervilles, Heart Of Darkness, and As I Lay Dying.</p>
<p>Also, many poems and short stories.</p>
<p>There’s probably more I’m forgetting …</p>
<p>Freshman:
Night
Great Expectations
Romeo and Juliet
Into Thin Air
To Kill a Mockingbird</p>
<p>Sophomore:
Lord of the Flies
Cry the Beloved Country
Martian Chronicles
Joy Luck Club
Animal Farm</p>
<p>Junior:
God Bless You Mr. Rosewater
Catcher in the Rye
Winesburg, Ohio
The Jungle
Johnny Get Your Gun
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Great Gatsby</p>
<p>Senior:
Poisonwood Bible
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Waiting For Godot
Hamlet
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Beloved
White Noise
Oedipus
Kite Runner
Thousand Splendid Suns
Slaughterhouse Five</p>
<p>That is all I can remember at the moment</p>
<p>(note the shorter lists the longer ago it happened, damn memory :D)</p>
<p>To Kill a Mockingbird. That’s it my school is horrible. Everything else we had to read were short stories, poems, or excerpts.</p>
<p>In my dual enrollment classes at Wilkes U. I had to read:
Johnathan Livingston Seagull, The Iliad, The Odyssey, Stop-Time, The Inferno, as well as lots of poems, plays, and some exerts from some of the great works.</p>
<p>Freshman:</p>
<p>Children of the River
Romeo and Juliet
To Kill a Mockingbird
Tale of Two Cities</p>
<p>Sophomore:</p>
<p>The Crucible
Huckleberry Finn
The Scarlett Letter</p>
<p>Junior:</p>
<p>The Metamorphis
Kokoro
Gulliver’s Travels
Candide
Streetcar Named Desire
Tess of the D’urbervilles
Grapes of Wrath</p>
<p>Senior:</p>
<p>Oedipus
King Lear
Othello
Death of a Salesman
Animal Farm
A Farewell to Arms</p>
<p>There’s more than that, but that’s all I can recall.</p>
<p>I remember
To kill a mockingbird, animal farm, 1984, the crucible, lord of the flies, Frankenstein, can’t think of anymore but I’m sure I read more then that.</p>
<p>From what I remember</p>
<p>Freshman:
The Odyssey
Of Mice and Men
Romeo and Juliet
Catcher in the Rye</p>
<p>Sophomore:
This Boy’s Life
Macbeth</p>
<p>Junior:
Oedipus
The Awakening
The Scarlet Letter
a book by aldous huxley
The Interpreter of Maladies
The Advertures of Huck Finn
Their Eyes were Watching God</p>
<p>Senior:
The Things they Carried
Hamlet
The Barbarians are Coming
No-No Boys</p>
<p>I know I’m missing a bunch.</p>
<p>wow I had to read Night, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, and To Kill a Mockingbird… a lot of those you all were suppossed to read I read in AP Lit. lol</p>
<p>Freshman
The Outsiders
Romeo and Juliet
To Kill a Mockingbird
Twelfth Night
The Wave
The Red Pony<br>
(I can’t remember the rest) </p>
<p>Sophomore
We didn’t read books in this class, actually. We read short stories and poems and watched movies and did a lot of symbolism work…</p>
<p>Junior
The Great Gatsby
The Chosen
Dandelion Wine
Their Eyes were Watching God
The Crucible
The Scarlet Letter
Of Mice and Men</p>
<p>Senior
Mythology (Hamilton)
Old Sassy Tree
Frankenstein
(to be continued, this is summer work)</p>
<p>Freshman:
Of Mice and Men
To Kill a Mockingbird
don’t remember the others…</p>
<p>Sophomore:
Macbeth
1984
random poetry</p>
<p>Junior:
The Crucible
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Great Gatsby</p>
<p>Senior:
Candide
Oedipus
Hamlet
King Lear
Gulliver’s Travels
Heart of Darkness
The Stranger
more random poetry…</p>
<p>I can’t remember all of them, but we didn’t read very many. Most of the listed ones were summer reading. And we only read books in English.</p>
<p>Honors English 9
To Kill a Mockingbird
Romeo and Juliet
Fahrenheit 451
A Separate Peace</p>
<p>Honors English 10
The Chosen
Great Expectations
Night
My Antonia
The Joy Luck Club</p>
<p>Honors English 3
Huckleberry Finn
The Things They Carried
The Bean Trees
The Crucible</p>
<p>AP English Literature
The Odyssey
Hamlet
Oedipus Rex / Antigone (but not the other one in the series)
Cyrano de Bergec (or whatever)
Arms and the Man
Catch-22
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Crime and Punishment
The Things They Carried (I switched schools…)
and a ton of others that I can’t remember</p>
<p>Okay, when I put it that way, it does look like we read a lot. But really, most of that was over the summer, so it was only one or two books per year.</p>
<p>there were like 2 or 3 that were taught in one section of a class but not another… so either i read them or my best friend. </p>
<p>1984
alice in wonderland
anthem
antigone
awakening
bel canto
candide
catcher in the rye
cat’s cradle
count of monte cristo
crime and punishment
death of a salesman
ethan frome
fahrenheit 451
farewell to arms
for whom the bell tolls
great expectations
great gatsby
hamlet
heart of darkness
huck finn
i know why the caged bird sings
jane eyre
joy luck club
kite runner
lets go to do the dogs tonight
lord of the flies
madame bovary
moby dick
native son
night
oedipus
of mice and men
one day in the life of ivan denisovich
othello
persepolis
persuasion
romeo and juliet
scarlet letter
taming of the shrew
the bluest eye
the crucible
the good earth
the odyssey
the prince
the secret life of bees
the tempest
to kill a mockingbird
twelfth night
utopia
waiting for godot
wide sargasso sea
woman warrior</p>
<p>oh, the list</p>
<p>FR:
The Odyssey
Antigone
Romeo and Juliet
Tale of Two Cities
Waiting for Godot (made me want to join Vlad and Estragon at the end)
Various poetry and short stories
Lord of the Flies
Catcher in the Rye
maybe more</p>
<p>SO
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Othello
Macbeth
Lots of Poetry (Frost, Whitman, for me in particular Seamus Heaney and Yusef Komunyaka)
Great Gatsby
Death of a Salesman</p>
<p>JR
As I Lay Dying (died while reading it)
Hamlet
Poetry by John Donne
The Visit
Medea
Hedda Gabler
Invisible Man (Ellison, not Wells)
Poetry by Derek Walcott
Croniculo de una muerte anunciada (eventually)</p>
<p>Freshman:
Sir Gawin and the Green Knight
Beowulf
The Canterbury Tales
Gilgamesh
Julius Caesar
The Raymana
Antigone</p>
<p>Sophmore:
Hamlet
Candide
Frankenstein
Pride and Prejudice
English Poetry…alot
Maus II
A Doll’s House
All Quiet on the Western Front</p>
<p>Junior:
The Awakening
The Scarlet Letter
Huck Finn
The Bluest Eye
The Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby
many essays like Emerson, Thoreau, Didion, </p>
<p>Senior:
Invisible Man (Ellison)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
The God of Small Things
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Ideal Husband
King Lear
There Eyes Were Watching God
The Sound and the Fury
Many short stores like The Things They Carried, The Overcoat, Good Bye My Brother, The Mark on the Wall…etc.</p>
<p>from what I remember:
The Metamorphosis
Of Mice and Men
Cry the Beloved Country
Romeo and Juliet
Julius Caesar
Merchant of Venice
The Crucible
One flew over the Cuckoos Nest
To Kill a Mockingbird
Animal Farm
Hiroshima
Lord of the Flies
Miracle Worker
Much Ado about Nothing
The Color Purple
Cyrano de Bergerac
Night
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
Huckleberry Finn
Great Gatsby
Narrative of the LIfe of Frederick Douglass</p>
<p>Animal Farm
To Kill a Mockingbird
Until They Take the Streetcars Away
The Metamorphisis
The Great Gatsby
Catcher in the Rye
Huck Finn
Frankenstein
The Scarlet Letter
Oedibus
The Illiad
Obn Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
A Midsummer’s Night Dream
The Raven</p>
<p>And more I think
Romeo and Juliet</p>
<p>Freshman</p>
<p>To Kill a Mockingbird
Romeo and Juliet
A Separate Peace
Something else, can’t remember to be honest</p>
<p>Sophomore
Antigone
Alice in Wonderland
Things Fall Apart
Julius Caesar
Lord of the Flies</p>
<p>Junior - AP first semester, standard second
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Of Mice and Men
The Crucible
Frankenstein
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (One of the only ones I never even picked up…damn Summer reading list was soul crushing)
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Scarlet Letter
Great Gatsby
Bluest Eye
A few more I’m leaving out</p>
<p>Senior - AP English
Snow Falling on Cedars
Death of a Salesman
Fences
Heart of Darkness
As I Lay Dying
The Poisonwood Bible
Hamlet
Mrs. Dalloway
Song of Solomon </p>
<p>God I loved Senior English.</p>
<p>wow these this makes my high school education look like a joke. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Freshman year: Lit/Writing(lousy lit teacher, didnt do much)
Farenheit 451
To Kill a Mockingbird
Romeo and Juliet
The Odyssey</p>
<p>Sophomore Year: World Lit
Lord of the Flies
Night
Memoirs of a Geisha
Life of Pi
In The Time of the Butterflies
Merchant of Venice
Cry My Beloved Country
When Heaven and Earth Switched Places
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Good Earth
Macbeth</p>
<p>Junior Year: Am Lit Honors
Invisible Man
The Scarlet Letter
The Great Gatsby
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Crucible
East of Eden
The Things They Carried
Something by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Piles of short stories/excerpts: Melville, Kafka, Emerson, etc.</p>
<p>Senior Year: AP Lit
Possession
Arcadia
Brave New World
1984
Hamlet
The Laramie Project (I cried)
Hedda Gabler
Assorted plays: Further adventures, Radio Golf, etc.
A Steetcar Named Desire
The Crying of Lot 49
Crime and Punishment
The Bluest Eye
The Metamorphosis
Heart of Darkness
The Stranger
Jane Eyre
Books in Spanish: Fiesta al Noroeste, Bodas De Sangre, La Casa de Bernarda Alba, etc.</p>
<p>Our sophomore teacher is odd, to say the least. Please PM me with any comments on these required books:</p>
<p>The Crucible
Waiting For Godart
Frankenstein
Sidhartha
A Doll’s House
The Color Purple
Like Water For Chocolate</p>