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Post by novastar6 on Feb 28, 2017 19:25:19 GMT
What did you have to read?
Between 4th and 8th grade I had:
The Arabian Nights
Robinson Crusoe
Lorna Doone
Around the World in 80 Days
Theras and His Town
Swiss Family Robinson
The Story of a Bad Boy
Johnny Tremain
Sign of the Beaver
The Prince and the Pauper
Wuthering Heights
And of all of these, the only ones I had any luck paying attention to, or even liked, are the ones that nobody ever heard of, that are not famous or 'classic', but all that 1800s old writing style, etc., that was impossible to get through at 9-10 years old, it was boring and stuffy and impossible to keep any interest in. To this day I don't remember reading the end of Around the World in 80 Days, and yet I must've because incomplete was never an option.
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Post by Lucy on Feb 28, 2017 22:59:27 GMT
In high school:
Death of A Salesman
Romeo and Juliet
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Great Gatsby
Of Mice and Men
These Eyes Were Watching God
Great Expectations
Juliet Caesar
Scarlet Letter
Salem Hunt Witch, I think that was the name of it.
Forgot the name of it but I think it was based on "My Fair Lady".
That's all I can name from the top of my head.
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Post by rmcrae on Mar 3, 2017 3:48:46 GMT
Julius Caesar To Kill a Mockingbird The Canterbury Tales Beowulf The Scarlet Letter Night |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2017 6:58:01 GMT
OUr town
death of some salesman
juleua Caesar
romeao
tequila mockingbird
huckleberry finn
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Post by louise on Mar 3, 2017 7:39:37 GMT
i remember in primary school in year 6 us reading wind in the Willows, a Christmas carol, little Men, and white Fang. In secondary school i remember us reading Anne of Green gables, The Silver Sword, The Brumby. for O level we did Macbeth, The Rivals, and a collection of modern poets - John Betjeman, charles Causley, Ted Hughes, r. S. Thomas.
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Post by filmfan95 on Mar 3, 2017 7:42:11 GMT
Quite a few books were required reading, but, being a nerd, I had already read some of them.
5th Grade (I was homeschooled before 5th grade):
HATCHET
BRIDGE TO TEREBITHIA
THE SIGN OF THE BEAVER (which I had read before already)
BUD, NOT BUDDY (which I had read before already)
HOLES (my introduction to the story, but now one of my favorites)
THE MOUSE AND THE MOTORCYCLE (Which I had read before already)
6th Grade
JASON'S GOLD
STARGIRL
SURVIVING THE APPLEWHITES
7th Grade
ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY
THE CAY
THE MISFITS
A CHRISTMAS CAROL (which I had read millions of times before already, as it's one of my all time favorites)
8th Grade
FEVER: 1793
THE OUTSIDERS
Some book about people who plant in a junk yard that I can't remember the title of.
9th Grade
THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
GREEK MYTHOLOGY (which I was already very knowledgable with)
ROMEO AND JULIET (which I had read before already)
10th Grade
THE CRUCIBLE
HUCKLEBERRY FINN (which I had read before already, honestly, I prefer "Tom Sawyer")
TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE
OF MICE AND MEN (which I hated)
A few others that I can't remember the titles of
11th Grade
MACBETH (which I had read before already)
BEOWULF
LORD OF THE FLIES (which I hated)
FRANKENSTEIN (which I had read already before)
12th Grade (where I had three different literature classes: Children's Lit, Sci Fi/Fantasy, and the normal literature class)
FAIRY TALES: Rapunzel (Grimm), Snow White (Grimm), Cinderella (Grimm), The Bremen Town Musicians (Grimm), Red Riding Hood (both Perrault and Grimm), Jack and the Beanstalk (Jacobs), Three Bears (Southey), Three Little Pigs (Jacobs), and Hansel and Grethel (Grimm). All of which I had already read thousands of times (I'm a fairy tale fanatic).
HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE (my introduction to Harry Potter, and I enjoyed it)
JURASSIC PARK (I actually read way ahead of the schedule on this one, because I enjoyed it so much. I don't know why people say the movie is better.)
WIZARD OF EARTHSEA (Which I hated)
Fahrenheit 451 (which was just okay)
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Post by mmexis on Mar 3, 2017 8:34:01 GMT
grade 9: Old man and the sea (hated)
The Chrysalids (hated)
various short stories
grade 10: Merchant of Venice
Who has seen the wind
The Stone Angel
poetry
Grade 11: Tess of the D'urbervilles
Romeo and Juliet
Mayor of Casterbridge
Grade 12: Hamlet (everyone else did Macbeth)
Miracle plays (medieval stuff)
poetry
short stories
Grade 13: Oedipus Rex
King Lear
the Tempest
Tempest-tossed
various short stories
poetry
I'm sure I've missed some somewhere.
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Post by DarkManX on Mar 4, 2017 0:07:24 GMT
Junior High
The Giver
High School
Of Mice and Men
The House on Mango Street
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Joy Luck Club
The Great Gatsby
Brave New World
The Crucible
I'm definitely missing some, these are the only ones whose names I can recall.
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Post by novastar6 on Mar 4, 2017 0:59:01 GMT
Junior High The Giver High School Of Mice and Men The House on Mango Street The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Joy Luck Club The Great Gatsby Brave New World The Crucible I'm definitely missing some, these are the only ones whose names I can recall. I read The Crucible a couple years ago. If I'd had it in high school I probably would've reacted a lot like Thelma Harper when she read The Scarlet Letter. |
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Post by rmcrae on Mar 4, 2017 2:35:31 GMT
A lot of the original fairy tales had much darker elements to them. I like that about them. |
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Post by filmfan95 on Mar 4, 2017 2:39:00 GMT
A lot of the original fairy tales had much darker elements to them. I like that about them. I know. It'd be cool with the horror movie hype if some screenplay writer would adapt one of them into a horror movie, as some of them have some pretty horrific stuff ("Fitcher's Bird," "The Robber Bridegroom," etc.) I love the fairy tales. |
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Post by camimac on Mar 4, 2017 2:49:04 GMT
Oh God! I must be old as dirt, the only books I can remember that we were required to read in hs literature class were Hemingway's the old man and the sea, and silas marner. I know we read the hobbit too but it was not required
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Post by yezziqa on Mar 4, 2017 2:54:24 GMT
We didn't have any required books to read but got to pick them ourselves. I don't remember all of them as I read about 1-2 books per day from the age of about 8 until I started university (I know, I was completely crazy, I even read other students books and gave them a summary and earned some money  . But I do remember that when I was 10 i choose War and Peace by Tolstoj and my teacher said it was to big and "adult" for me (new teacher that didn't know me), and boy did I prove her wrong. |
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Post by rmcrae on Mar 4, 2017 4:14:08 GMT
A lot of the original fairy tales had much darker elements to them. I like that about them. I know. It'd be cool with the horror movie hype if some screenplay writer would adapt one of them into a horror movie, as some of them have some pretty horrific stuff ("Fitcher's Bird," "The Robber Bridegroom," etc.) I love the fairy tales.  That would be cool. Also, I like your avatar. I love the Oz books and would love an adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz that's closer to the book. It's been long overdue. |
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Post by vegalyra on Mar 8, 2017 21:27:49 GMT
Wish I could remember more, but it's been quite some time.
I do remember reading the Iliad and the Odyssey and quite a few of Shakespeare's works (Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, etc.)
Actually revisited the Iliad awhile back (the old Penguin Rieu translation) and enjoyed it a lot.
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Post by devonrex68 on Mar 9, 2017 1:00:03 GMT
High School:
The Catcher in the Rye
1984
Of Mice and Men
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2017 1:02:40 GMT
"Animal Farm" is the one that stands out for me, all about the hypocrisy of Socialism and Communism.
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Post by bess1971s on Mar 10, 2017 18:21:00 GMT
I detested almost all of the required reading. I've always loved to read but I hated being ordered to do so. Even one of my high school teachers agreed that the list of required books should be scrapped and updated. Too bad it never was, at least not in my time.
The only book on the list that I loved enough to read over again was Jane Eyre.
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Post by Bargle on Mar 11, 2017 19:08:18 GMT
Between 6th and 12th grade.
Animal Farm
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
1984
Horn of the Hunter
Great Expectations
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Post by Prelude on Mar 12, 2017 2:09:10 GMT
I can only remember:
Ivanhoe
Moonfleet
The Diary of Anne Frank
A Dickens novel but I can't remember which one.
Then various Shakespeare plays.
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. But I do remember that when I was 10 i choose War and Peace by Tolstoj and my teacher said it was to big and "adult" for me (new teacher that didn't know me), and boy did I prove her wrong. 
