Books that were required reading in school

novastar6 Elite Member @novastar6 Posts: 13,810 Likes: 7,023 Member is Online	Books that were required reading in school Mar 12, 2017 4:54:30 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by novastar6 on Mar 12, 2017 4:54:30 GMT Mar 12, 2017 2:09:10 GMT Prelude said: A Dickens novel but I can't remember which one. What was it about?

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Books that were required reading in school Mar 12, 2017 5:29:49 GMT

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Mar 4, 2017 2:54:24 GMT yezziqa said:

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.

It must have been nice to be so spoiled you were able to just sit on your ass all day every day and do nothing but read. Nice in a pathetic loner kind of way. I'm more than a bit skeptical a 10 year old read War and Peace in one day though.

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Mar 12, 2017 5:29:49 GMT poelzig said:

Mar 4, 2017 2:54:24 GMT yezziqa said:

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.

It must have been nice to be so spoiled you were able to just sit on your ass all day every day and do nothing but read. Nice in a pathetic loner kind of way. I'm more than a bit skeptical a 10 year old read War and Peace in one day though.

And here comes a person with low self-esteem in desperate need of trying to feel better by misbehaving toward others.
No, I wasn't a loner, i was an active child, with many activities after school, but what i was good at and still are, is multitasking. And no, definetly not spoiled either.

You should also learn to read, i wrote "about 1-2 days", not "maximum of 1-2 days".

If everyone lived like me, we would just need a quarter of this planet. How many planets do your lifestyle require?

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Books that were required reading in school Mar 12, 2017 8:04:30 GMT

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Mar 12, 2017 7:24:57 GMT yezziqa said:

Mar 12, 2017 5:29:49 GMT poelzig said:

It must have been nice to be so spoiled you were able to just sit on your ass all day every day and do nothing but read. Nice in a pathetic loner kind of way. I'm more than a bit skeptical a 10 year old read War and Peace in one day though.

And here comes a person with low self-esteem in desperate need of trying to feel better by misbehaving toward others.
No, I wasn't a loner, i was an active child, with many activities after school, but what i was good at and still are, is multitasking. And no, definetly not spoiled either.

You should also learn to read, i wrote "about 1-2 days", not "maximum of 1-2 days".

I'm not sure why you're announcing to everyone that you are "a person with low self-esteem in desperate need of trying to feel better by misbehaving toward others" but it was unnecessary. It's obvious after reading one of your self-aggrandizing posts. Come on sweetie. The thread was about listing books you read in school and you proceed to pat yourself on the back (Again) and never mention anything you read except for War and Peace which you boastfully claim to have read in 1 maybe 2 days.

Also you should probably keep better track of the yarns you spin if you plan to try and back track and make them less ridiculous. You said " I read about 1-2 books per day" that's pretty clear cut. You can't keep your lies straight even though they are right there for you to reread and then embarrass yourself further by saying I'm the one that needs to learn to read.

I know I should just ignore your cringe worthy nonsense but sometimes it's fun to pull the pigs tail just to hear it squeal. Especially when the pig is so particularly pompous. On a separate note, alliteration is cool. Don't you agree?

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Books that were required reading in school Mar 12, 2017 10:01:20 GMT

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Mar 12, 2017 8:04:30 GMT poelzig said:

Mar 12, 2017 7:24:57 GMT yezziqa said:

And here comes a person with low self-esteem in desperate need of trying to feel better by misbehaving toward others.
No, I wasn't a loner, i was an active child, with many activities after school, but what i was good at and still are, is multitasking. And no, definetly not spoiled either.

You should also learn to read, i wrote "about 1-2 days", not "maximum of 1-2 days".

I'm not sure why you're announcing to everyone that you are "a person with low self-esteem in desperate need of trying to feel better by misbehaving toward others" but it was unnecessary. It's obvious after reading one of your self-aggrandizing posts. Come on sweetie. The thread was about listing books you read in school and you proceed to pat yourself on the back (Again) and never mention anything you read except for War and Peace which you boastfully claim to have read in 1 maybe 2 days.

Also you should probably keep better track of the yarns you spin if you plan to try and back track and make them less ridiculous. You said " I read about 1-2 books per day" that's pretty clear cut. You can't keep your lies straight even though they are right there for you to reread and then embarrass yourself further by saying I'm the one that needs to learn to read.

I know I should just ignore your cringe worthy nonsense but sometimes it's fun to pull the pigs tail just to hear it squeal. Especially when the pig is so particularly pompous. On a separate note, alliteration is cool. Don't you agree?

Darling, english is my third language, come back when you can use your third language as well as i use english.

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Books that were required reading in school Mar 12, 2017 12:28:10 GMT

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Mar 12, 2017 4:54:30 GMT novastar6 said:

Mar 12, 2017 2:09:10 GMT Prelude said:

A Dickens novel but I can't remember which one.

What was it about?

I have vague memories of a boy and a not very nice man (although there seems to be one of each of those in many of his story-lines!), but although I thought maybe Great Expectations, I keep feeling it was not. I got put off Dickens so badly that I've never become further acquainted since.

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Books that were required reading in school Mar 12, 2017 18:18:42 GMT

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Mar 12, 2017 10:01:20 GMT yezziqa said:

Mar 12, 2017 8:04:30 GMT poelzig said:

I'm not sure why you're announcing to everyone that you are "a person with low self-esteem in desperate need of trying to feel better by misbehaving toward others" but it was unnecessary. It's obvious after reading one of your self-aggrandizing posts. Come on sweetie. The thread was about listing books you read in school and you proceed to pat yourself on the back (Again) and never mention anything you read except for War and Peace which you boastfully claim to have read in 1 maybe 2 days.

Also you should probably keep better track of the yarns you spin if you plan to try and back track and make them less ridiculous. You said " I read about 1-2 books per day" that's pretty clear cut. You can't keep your lies straight even though they are right there for you to reread and then embarrass yourself further by saying I'm the one that needs to learn to read.

I know I should just ignore your cringe worthy nonsense but sometimes it's fun to pull the pigs tail just to hear it squeal. Especially when the pig is so particularly pompous. On a separate note, alliteration is cool. Don't you agree?

Darling, english is my third language, come back when you can use your third language as well as i use english.

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More than I could possibly remember. I had a very hard time enjoying the reading material school mandated. I feel like there were so many Shakespeare plays and plays by other authors. I know I read the Old Man and the Sea, Beowulf, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Romeo and Juliet...the one book I had to read that I did enjoy was The Mayor of Casterbridge. I've been wanting to reread it but haven't gotten around to it 20 years later.

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Books that were required reading in school Mar 14, 2017 3:57:07 GMT

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Mar 3, 2017 7:42:11 GMT filmfan95 said:

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)

I suppose we've got to be around the same age, Filmfan, because, with a few exceptions (Jurassic Park, Harry Potter, Earthsea, all of your 6th Grade ones) my list would be the same as yours.

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Books that were required reading in school Mar 14, 2017 13:20:52 GMT

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Post by novastar6 on Mar 14, 2017 13:20:52 GMT

I have to say that I'm envious of most people here, a lot of you got issued books that I would've liked to been assigned in school, a lot of them I would've actually been interested in, and many of them being written in the 20th century instead, would've been far easier to read through and understand what was going on. As it was, the ones that we have in common, I didn't read until I was in college, and got them from the library in my off time.

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Post by moviebuffbrad on Apr 27, 2017 2:49:25 GMT

I remember having to read Of Mice and Men in two separate grades (6th and 9th). Romeo + Juliet and The Odyssey were also the 9th. The Outsiders was the 7th. That's all I really remember, since a. I liked them and b. I wasn't the most studious kid.

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eplay Junior Member @eplay Posts: 3,339 Likes: 401	Books that were required reading in school May 11, 2017 23:57:35 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by eplay on May 11, 2017 23:57:35 GMT The Bastard Lord of the Flies A Separate Peace East of Eden (I remember the length was daunting, but it was fantastic.) The Great Gatsby (I think this was my pick meeting certain criteria.)

Books that were required reading in school

Post by novastar6 on Mar 12, 2017 4:54:30 GMT

Post by poelzig on Mar 12, 2017 5:29:49 GMT

Post by yezziqa on Mar 12, 2017 7:24:57 GMT

Post by poelzig on Mar 12, 2017 8:04:30 GMT

Post by yezziqa on Mar 12, 2017 10:01:20 GMT

Post by Prelude on Mar 12, 2017 12:28:10 GMT

Post by poelzig on Mar 12, 2017 18:18:42 GMT

Post by Marv on Mar 13, 2017 16:13:42 GMT

Post by Nalkarj on Mar 14, 2017 3:57:07 GMT

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