Books What books did you have to read in school?

I was just wondering. It has been years since I was in school. I was just wondering if they are still making you read the same things.

 

I hate when we have to a novel for class, I am very picky in the books I read so I have a hard time reading them. We just got done reading a book called the Outsiders. It is about this boy in gang. It wasn't that good, but it was horrible.

 

my school books are pretty much the same. we read one shakespeare book every year in high school. the teachers dont make us read outside of school except for summer reading. last year's book SUCKED. it was called "my antonia". plain awful.

 

So far we have read Animal Farm and The Odysee. We are currently reading Great Expections.

I think we read close to six books total.

 

Well oddly enough, right now my Geometry teacher is making us read a book in his class called Flatland. Very confusing. . .about dimensions and stuff. @_@

In the past, for school, I have read parts of the Odysee, Animal Farm, 1984, Christmas Carol, Dracula, Ender's Game, Tom Sawyer, The Hobbit, Speak and what we most recently finished in English; Romeo And Juliet.

I probably read some others too but I cant think of what ones.

 

My cousin had to read Flatland. Sounded pretty interesting.

 

Yes, it’s interesting, I suppose, after you understand it. It takes a little bit for you to absorb it all. (at least for me it did) And completely understand what is going on about. At times it’s like reading out of a dictionary. But it is interesting, no doubt.

 

"The Pearl" by John Stienback
"Johnny Tremain" by Ester Forbes
"Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson
Do you mean books in middle school, high school,etc.?

 

Ninth Grade: The Good Earth, Romeo and Juliet, Night, Catcher in the Rye, and I think there was something else but I can't remember... it was only two yeas ago too.

Tenth: All Quiet on the Western Front, Count of Monte Cristo, Julius Caeser, A Tale of Two Cities, Grapes of Wrath, and assorted poems about people dying and revenge...... my tenth honors teacher was great ^.^ scary somtimes, but great.

And this year....

We've read Ethan Frome, Scarlet Letter, and currently To Kill A Mockingbird. I think we're gonna read one more book but I dunno what it is.

Apparently last year at this school (I just transfered here) the kids read The Bell Jar, Catcher in the Rye, and a mess of other books like that........ not Hamlet though. Apparently Hamlet and MacBeth aren't part of the cirriculum at this school. Neither is The Great Gatsby. I hated the Great Gatsby but it's kinda disappointing that they don't have to read those books.

 

Both will do actually. To be honest I don't remember what I read in middle school.

Here is what I read like 8 to 2 years ago.
Outsiders
Odysee
Animal Farm
1984
A Christmas Carol
Romeo & Juliet
Johnny Tremain
Scarlet Letter
Catcher in the Rye
Julius Caeser
A Tale of Two Cities
Grapes of Wrath
Great Expections
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. (My sister had to read this to she rented the movie. She ended up renting the wrong one. Hehe)
And this Princess one where her name is Buttercup.
Also a bunch of short stories and probably so many other books.

 

Well, I'm currently in college and I'm majoring in English Lit, so I've been doing a whole lot of reading. To the point where I have trouble remembering everything I had to read two semesters ago, let alone all the stuff I had to read in public school.

Oh, I remember some of the titles, just not all of them (or even most of them, really). Let's see...

Elementary School
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Johnny Tremain
Incredible Journey
Treasure Island
Island of the Blue Dolphin


Junior High
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The Hobbit
The Outsiders
Romeo and Juliet


High School
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Catcher in the Rye
Beneath the Wheel
Julius Ceasar
Hamlet
1984
Raisin in the Sun
The Handmaid's Tale


College
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...too many to count. ^_^;;

~Shadrach Anki

 

I can only recall a few books. I remember doing Romeo and Juliet, but i didn't have a clue as to what they were saying.
I also remember reading To Kill A Mocking Bird, which i think was a bit advanced, but we somehow managed to get through it.
I also remember Goodnight Mr Tom, which i loved so much i read a few times.
As well as Under The Hawthorn Tree. Which was about tree kids tring to get to there aunties house during the great irish famine.
And finally The Lies Of Silence, which was about a man who was taken hostage by the IRA and told to bomb a hotel otherwise they would kill his wife.

Some where interesting but most only held my interest cause i had to study them or fail my exams.

 

Romeo and Juliet, the odyse, and the princes bride, those are just the ones I liked, even though i slept through english class and when we were doing the read aloud thing, I still got 'A's on my tests and quizes
oh yeah I encourage people to read the princes bride its a good book. (read all the parts in the book even teh italics, exept theres this one part in the beginning were you shouldent read its like the first couple pages in the book it kinda ruins it.

hey basher the princess one were her name is buttercup is the princes bride

 

Middle School:
The Outsiders
Clockwork
Poppy
Last Book In The Universe
The Giver
Malcom X
Holes
When Zachary Beaver Came To Town
Out Of The Dust
Tangerine
Mid Sumers Moonlight Dream
The Pearl
Tom Sawyer
Huckelberry Fin
The Diary of Ann Frank
The Toll Booth
My Brother Sam is Dead
And more.....

Since I'm a Freshman in Highschool i've only read Crispin so far

 

I just finished reading "That was then this is now" by no means a horrible book, I just found it ot be somewhat boring. Also Huck Finn, once you've read it you can't help but find it laughable that people call it "racist".

 

well i can't remember each book for each grade but:

Middle And Junior High:
Johnny Tremain
Witch of Blackbird Pond
The Big Friendly Giant
-Thats really all i can remember

High school
Romeo and Juliet
To Kill a Mockingbird
Julius Casear
Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of Baskervilles
Fahrenheit 451
Flatland
The Hobbit
Timeline
Bewoulf
The Canterbury Tales