<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>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>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>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>