What English Books have you read?

<p>^ I had a class like that, though two separate teachers, one for honors english and 1 for APWH. Our books never had happy endings sigh</p>

<p>9th grade
Lord of the flies by William Golding
Julius Caesar by Shakespeare
A tale of two cities by dickens
All Quiet on the Western Front
The grapes of wrath by Steinbeck
Some short stories that were a bit disturbing…</p>

<p>10th grade- I don’t know yet</p>

<p>@frenchie it was 2 separate teachers, we had English first, a conference period, and then WHAP in a 3 period block</p>

<p>Freshman:
To Kill a Mockingbird
1984
Romeo and Juliet
The Bonesetter’s Daughter
The Poisonwood Bible
Their Eyes Were Watching God</p>

<p>Sophomore:
The Tempest
Thank You For Arguing
The Lord of the Flies
Fahrenheit 451
All The Pretty Horses
Night</p>

<p>Junior (so far- school started a week ago)
The Scarlet Letter (summer)
The Crucible
The Tipping Point (just started reading)</p>

<p>Freshman year :
The book thief
Mythology
Romeo and Juliet
twelfth night
Animal farm
Summerland
Elsewhere
A separate peace
A midsummer nights dream
War of the worlds
Something wicked this way comes
Taming of the shrew
Magicians nephew
Oliver Twist
The odyssey
Life is so good</p>

<p>No one can surpass my freshman year.</p>

<p>Freshman: Joy Luck Club, Romeo and Juliet, Great Expectations, To Kill a Mockingbird</p>

<p>Sophomore: The Book Thief, A Tale of Two Cities, Antigone, Julius Caesar</p>

<p>Junior: The Scarlet Letter, Jane Eyre, The Catcher in the Rye, Outliers, The Great Gatsby, Huck Finn</p>

<p>Senior (so far): The Importance of Being Earnest, Crime and Punishment</p>

<p>Freshman:
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Aeneid
To Kill a Mocking Bird
War and Peace</p>

<p>Sophomore:
Scarlet Letter (is my school the only one that requires this for sophomores?)
Frankenstein
The Great Gatsby
Jane Eyre
Does Othello count?</p>

<p>Junior: none (decided not to take any this year)
Senior: no clue yet</p>

<p>8th Grade
Frankenstein
Romeo and Juliet
The Odyssey</p>

<p>9th
The Old Man and the Sea
Macbeth
Farenheight 451
To kill a mockingjay
The Most Dangerous Game
Frederick Douglas
Great Execptations</p>

<p>10th: the Hobbit, Beowulf, Canterbury Tales, Sir Gawain & the Green Knight, Macbeth, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Gulliver’s Travels, Frankenstein (i loved this book for some odd reason lol)
11th: Fahrenheit 451, Scarlet Letter, Huck Finn, Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye, Much Ado about Nothing
12th (1st semester) : Odyssey, Oresteia, Antigone, Oedipus, Medea, Aeneid, The Inferno (finally!), King Lear, Misanthrope and Tartuffe, Candide etc.
There has been so much Greek lit in my English lit class, now thanks to Fagles, there’s proof that Greeks can communicate more fluently in our own language than we can ;)</p>

<p>For high school (well this is HSL after all),
Freshman year:
1st semester

  • To Kill A Mockingbird
  • A Separate Peace
  • Tale of Two Cities
    2nd semester
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • Mayor of Casterbridge
  • Lord of the Flies
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings</p>

<p>Sophomore year:
1st semester

  • All Quiet on the Western Front
  • 1984
  • Macbeth
  • Cyrano De Bergerac
    2nd semester
    (books of choice, only stipulation being that it was grade appropriate and there was no motion picture released or in production)
  • Real World by Natsuo Kirino
  • Room by Emma Donoghue
  • Looking for Alaska by John Green </p>

<p>Junior year:
1st semester

  • The Scarlet Letter
  • The Great Gatsby
  • The Grapes of Wrath
  • Catcher in the Rye
    2nd semester (took Mythology, we were required to take an English elective):
    -The Oedipus Cycle (Oedipus Rex and Antigone - didn’t read the 3rd one)
    -The Odyssey (Fagles Edition)</p>

<p>Senior Year:
1st semester

  • Jane Eyre
  • Master Harold and the boys
  • Hamlet
  • Brave New World</p>

<p>Second Semester - I’m going to be taking an elective again, since I couldn’t get into AP English, so I had to take a different English honors but that’s only a semester.</p>