<p>We are readying Huckleberry Finn, I haven’t really gotten into it yet.</p>
<p>Just finished Richard 3</p>
<p>For Ap english in class we are reading Beowulf and out of class we are reading Grendel.</p>
<p>We’re just about to start Crime and Punishment in AP Lit…let the fun begin!</p>
<p>the three thebean plays by sophocles -___- depressing. ugh it makes me want to literally gauge my eyes out whenever my teacher reminds us of the fate of oedipus.</p>
<p>Jane Eyre…</p>
<p>Just finished Macbeth, which I liked, and now we’re starting poetry by Auden, which I love. Yeah, I like English.</p>
<p>We just started Jane Eyre :)</p>
<p>We did poetry by Auden earlier this year. I loved it!</p>
<p>We’re reading Genesis, Macbeth, and Great Expectations.</p>
<p>We just finished reading As I Lay Dying by Faulkner… LOVED IT. ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT!
And we’re doing a project on The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka; I enjoyed that one as well!</p>
<p>I just started Sparknotes… AMAZING.</p>
<p>Well in class we’re doing a lot of British Romantic poetry and out of class we are reading The Picture of Dorian Gray</p>
<p>Just started Huck Finn in AP Lang- my teacher says they save it for AP because our “superior analytical skills” allow us to figure out all the old school southern dialects. Obviously she was joking, but it was certainly funny.</p>
<p>The Power and the Glory</p>
<p>All you people who “despise Shakespeare” - PLEASE, please go see some good, PROFESSIONAL Shakespeare live. I’m an actress and I adore Shakespeare, but I vehemently argue that English class destroys it. Shakespeare is meant to be felt in your bones, experienced, lived… It needs actors with PASSION and TRUTH. Not nit picked and chewed apart in English. Give him a chance, he’s a genius.</p>
<p>Ok, rant over. I’m in AP, loving the class so far, we just finished Mrs. Dalloway by Woolf and now were starting Joyce’s “a portrait of the artist as a young man.” Great so far!!</p>
<p>Or listen to Shakespeare on tape rather than read it.</p>
<p>I’m reading Hamlet in class. The teacher plays a professional recording and sometimes we watch the Kenneth Branagh version.</p>
<p>…it’s still horrible.</p>
<p>WORST ENDING EVER.</p>
<p>@harborceal…I love English and reading, but no. Shakespeare…just no. I just don’t like his plays…just like don’t like History, one of my favorite things. I do need to experience or feel Shakespeare anymore than necessary. Just one of those things; it’s a matter of opinion.</p>
<p>harborceal: I definitely agree! Plays are meant to be seen, not read in an English class.</p>
<p>We’re almost done reading Wuthering Heights. It’s… okay. Not the worst book I’ve ever read (that would be Heart of Darkness), but not the best one either. We’re going to form groups after WH and read a Jane Austen book of our choice.</p>
<p>The best book I’ve read in class would be The Kite Runner. Well, I read it a year before we read it in class, but it still counts! ;D</p>