tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13287651.post3789484361596462006..comments2024-03-21T05:29:29.615-04:00Comments on Eclectic Closet: Random Thoughts & Ponderings: What did you read in high school?Janelle Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536790002694671056noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13287651.post-24549508450396974512007-01-28T23:56:00.000-05:002007-01-28T23:56:00.000-05:00Hey, having done grade 13 doesn't date you that mu...Hey, having done grade 13 doesn't date you <em>that</em> much - I did it and I'm only 22. But anyway...<br /><br />My high school English classes studied only three books every year, one per term, I skipped grade 10 English, and we had no regular grade 12 English class, so it's pretty easy to remember the nine books I studied in high school:<br /><br />Grade 9: <em>Dreamspeaker</em>, <em>Cue for Treason</em>, and <em>A Midsummer Night's Dream</em>.<br /><br />Grade 11: <em>Not Wanted on the Voyage</em>, <em>Macbeth</em>, and <em>Oedipus Rex</em>.<br /><br />OAC: <em>Heart of Darkness</em>, <em>Things Fall Apart</em>, and <em>The Tempest</em>.<br /><br />I remember that <em>A Separate Peace</em> and <em>Flowers for Algernon</em> were two of the books we studied in grade 8, and that that was the year I first read <em>The Golden Compass</em> and <em>Pride and Prejudice</em> - they were in our classroom library, and have remained favourites ever since.<br /><br /><em>As for Me and My House</em> is on the syllabus for my 20th Century Can Lit course this year.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13287651.post-60141785389782908432007-01-18T14:55:00.000-05:002007-01-18T14:55:00.000-05:00Here's what I can remember...
Grade 7/8
No earth...Here's what I can remember...<br /><br />Grade 7/8 <br />No earthly idea<br /><br />Grade 9 <br />(They Cage the Animals at Night by Jennings Michael Burch - I think this one was from the summer reading list though, not assigned during the school year)<br />Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare<br />lots of poetry<br /><br />Grade 10 <br />Julius Caesar - Shakespeare<br />Night by Elie Wiesel<br />Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck<br />Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller<br />Animal Farm by George Orwell (either 10th or 11th)<br />The Scaret Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (either 10th or 11th)<br /><br />Grade 11 <br />Macbeth - Shakespeare<br />Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald<br />Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck<br />Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte<br />Edgar Allen Poe short stories (I think this was in 11th grade)<br /><br />Grade 12/OAC<br />I was in Germany... the only things I remember reading are The Physicists by Durrenmatt (in German) and Catch 22 by Joseph Heller (in English)karen!https://www.blogger.com/profile/03020530163370836712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13287651.post-49416363887904033042007-01-18T06:32:00.000-05:002007-01-18T06:32:00.000-05:00Oh - how could I forget The Crucible? That was 9t...Oh - how could I forget The Crucible? That was 9th or 10th grade.Marcihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13041296176381725393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13287651.post-29019287776447156092007-01-18T06:31:00.000-05:002007-01-18T06:31:00.000-05:00Since reading this a few days ago, I've been tryin...Since reading this a few days ago, I've been trying to remember. What I've come up with as 'required reading' follows:<br /><br />9th Grade - Romeo & Juliet; Edith Hamilton's Mythology<br /><br />10th Grade - The Scarlet Letter, To Kill a Mockingbird (can't remember anything else)<br /><br />11th Grade - The Great Gatsby, The Bell Jar, Moby Dick (and I hated every page!), something by Steinbeck, thinking Grapes of Wrath (which I also loathed)<br /><br />12th Grade - Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth (and had to memorise the tomorrow soliloquy which I still remember 20+ years later!), parts of The Canterbury Tales, and then I'm clueless as to the remainder of stuff that year...<br /><br />What I do remember clearly is the list from my last lit course in college/uni:<br /><br />Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (oh yea, a graphic novel! This started my love for the genre.)<br /><br />The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison (only thing of hers I've been able to finish)<br /><br />As I Lay Dying - Wm Faulkner (never thought there was a book I'd hate more than Moby Dick - until this)<br /><br />The Awakening - Kate Chopin (If you feel the urge to visit Grand Isle, Louisiana - don't bother.)<br /><br />--<br />I can't even remember the 'recreational' reading clearly from my high school days, but I lived at the library. Those days, it was more 'quantity, not quality' if you know what I mean. I'm much pickier now. :)Marcihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13041296176381725393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13287651.post-64261034622213987712007-01-18T00:53:00.000-05:002007-01-18T00:53:00.000-05:00The only book on your list that was required readi...The only book on your list that was required reading for me in high school was <em> Lord of the Flies </em>. A few Shakespeare plays aswell. But then again, I'm in Aust so we studied some Australian novelists. I remember reading The Heather Blazing by Colm Toibin. Heart of Darkness by Conrad. The Wife of Martin Guerre by Lewis.MissMillerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01084598396848670412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13287651.post-49138672187334225062007-01-17T14:08:00.000-05:002007-01-17T14:08:00.000-05:00I remember reading The Red Badge of Courage in gra...I remember reading The Red Badge of Courage in grade 9. <br />Other books, but can't recall in what grade: Midwitch Cuckoos, Lord of the Flies, To Kill A Mocking Bird and a Margaret Atwood book which name I can't recall at this time.<br />And of course the manditory Shakespeare plays: Merchant of Venice, Romeo & Juliette, Hamlet, Twelfth Night.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13287651.post-60955028964737947982007-01-15T23:47:00.000-05:002007-01-15T23:47:00.000-05:00The memory of my school assigned books are clearer...The memory of my school assigned books are clearer because they were scheduled, I think. I remember most of the books I read on my own but I can't match up years and they sort of blur together.<br /><br />As far as matches with your list, I also read The Pearl (grade 7), Animal Farm (grade 8), Hamlet & As You Like It (6th form: 12 & 13). I read The Chrysalids and part of Tess of the D'Ubervilles on my own.<br /><br />I even remember the books that were assigned to the lower grades of the school I transferred to because, starving for reading material, I read most of those too. I'll do this on my blog tomorrow. Could be something of a meme.Imanihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09647980707788075258noreply@blogger.com