Required School Reading

[Pel]

What do you have to read at your school?

[NolitaFairytale]

For summer reading this year, I was required to read Cold Mountain and A Lesson Before Dying. Ugh, I'm a big reader, but the minute someone forces me to read something, I lose interest.

[gypsyeyes]

Ugh, I'm a big reader, but the minute someone forces me to read something, I lose interest.

I'm exactly the same. I guess you could say I'm a rebel

This term we had to read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Talk about weird. Talk about a sex and drug fuelled ride. That was some weiiiiiiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrd stuff. At least the boys in the class enjoyed it.
Last term we read To Kill a Mockingbird and Othello. Both of which I really enjoyed.............i don't think anyone else in the class did though.

I guess i'm a nerd-rebel then

[Gabbie]

^ We read that in term 1! And studied Blade Runner with it.
It was a pretty cool unit.

We also did Othello, but last yearrr. And TKAMB in year 10.
We did King Lear this year for our Shakespeare,it was horrible.

[simple_love♫]

last year we read Romeo and Juliet (it was easy cuz I'd seen the movie a million times), A Separate Peace, Animal Farm, and a bunch of poetry stuff. this year we're reading To Kill a Mocking Bird, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, some other novels and more poetry

[vamp na hEireann]

Last year we had to do The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton and The Field by some lad that I can't remember his name.That is the stupidest play ever.84 pages of two lads fighting over a field and it took us a whole year to finish it although I finished it in about two classes.The Outsiders wasn't too bad.

[Macy!]

For our summer assignment, we had to read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. I was expecting it to be stupid and boring, like most required reading, but I actually enjoyed it quite a bit. It was very different from anything I've read and I like how society is portrayed, even if it's way into the future.

[gypsyeyes]

^ We read that in term 1! And studied Blade Runner with it.
It was a pretty cool unit.

We also did Othello, but last yearrr. And TKAMB in year 10.
We did King Lear this year for our Shakespeare,it was horrible.

Wow thats very similar to what we're doing. I thought the different states would be different. Aparantly Blade Runner is considered too much of a "cult film" for us to study with it though, so we are watching Equilibrium instead. Funniest gunfights ever! and Christian Bale so i can ignore the lameness.

Simple_love: You should enjoy TKAMB, its really a good book. Starts off a bit slow for those who aren't word fans but it has really good messages and themes. And many quotable lines to make essay-writing a breeze

[AliceLauren]

I had to read Code Orange, and James Town, Blood on the river. Not the best books ever. I just imagined that the main character was really hot.

It worked for me. lol.

[WishIWasACullen]

I'm the same way with the whole once-it's-assigned-I-don't-wanna-do-it thing. It's so true. I love to read but hate HAVING to read something. Anyway, when I was in high school this is what we had to read (and this is only what I can remember so it's give or take a few...)

9th grade
Animal Farm
The Odyssey
Romeo and Juliet
lots 'o' poetry

10th grade Honors English
To Kill a Mockingbird
Julius Caesar
even more poetry

11th grade Honors English
Antigone
Oedipus Rex
Oedipus at Colonus
The Scarlet Letter
The Great Gatsby
Breakfast at Tiffanys
Huckleberry Finn

12th grade-Advance Placement English
Othello
Heart of Darkness
Things Fall Apart
Pride and Prejudice
Macbeth

I know that there are more, especially from AP Eng. but I honestly can't remember them. But yes, if anyone had to read Heart of Darkness, tell me what you thought. Personally, I hated it but the rest were pretty decent.