Which ACTUAL books did you have to read in high school, as part of the curriculum? I mean the full book, not selected chapters or a version with modern language. In mine:>El Árbol de la Ciencia, by Pío Baroja9/10>Luces de Bohemia, by Valle Inclán 2/10>Los girasoles ciegos, by Alberto Méndez 7/10>La Celestina (anonymous)10/10>Don Juan Tenorio, by Zorrilla10/10>Crónica de una muerte anunciada, by García Márquez9/10I was pretty satisfied with the selection. We also got some Allan Poe and Romeo and Juliet in English class and selected chapters from Don Quijote and El Cantar del Mío Cid. ESL specially welcome, since I think I mostly get the picture for USA and Great Britain.
They have schools in Mexico? Do the kids go home for the siesta or does everyone just fall asleep sleeping in their desk?
>>25350946>Pride and Prejudice>Macbeth>Selected Poems of Robert FrostNo complaints from me, especially regarding Frost.
The Great Gatsby, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth are all I remember. I thought they were quite good but I was sick of the kids who couldn’t read dragging the class down. T. Australian
>>25350946>Beowulf>Of Mice and Men>The Scarlett Letter>The Joy Luck ClubI remember hating Joy Luck Club so much, and when it came time to write an essay on it I just read the CliffsNotes and wrote the most exaggeratedly feminist bullshit I could muster, and my feminist teacher gave me the best grade in the class.
>>25350946Something like this. I was in the accelerated English classes all 4 years and took a novels elective where all we did was read novels.The Great GatsbyThe OutsidersRomeo and Juliet1984Great ExpectationsOf Mice and MenThe Scarlet LetterThe Catcher in the RyeTo Kill a MockingbirdWuthering HeightsThe Adventures of Tom SawyerThe Adventures of Huckleberry FinnA Tale of Two CitiesThe Grapes of WrathThe Old Man and the SeaA Christmas CarolEast of EdenAll Quiet on the Western FrontNative SonBartleby the Scrivener
I was in IB, i can remember these (including plays since everyone else is)romeo and julietmacbetha midsummer nights dreammuch ado about nothinganimal farmthe great gatsbydeath of a salesmanaccidental death of an anarchistcrime and punishmentthe sorrow of warof mice and mencandideall quiet on the western frontcopenhagenprobably forgetting some
>>25350946Romeo and JulietOf Mice and MenGreat ExpectationsRomeo and JulietTheir Eyes Were Watching GodAnimal FarmBeowulfThe OutsidersDidn't really like any of them
The only two I remember are 1984 and My Name Is Asher Lev, the latter being one of the catalysts for my ascent into antisemitism
>>25351178Just remembered another one was To Kill A Mockingbird I joked with my friends that chifferobe was slang for pussy
>>25350946Not sure if I can remember all of them, but this is what we got in rural America 2006-2011:To Kill A MockingbirdTom SawyerRomeo and JulietJulius CaesarLord of the FliesA bunch of O'Henry and PoeBrave New WorldFrankensteinThe StrangerThe OdysseyThe CrucibleA Raisin in The SunThe Glass MenagerieThe AeneidThe MetamorphosisHeart of Darkness
Just graduated this year, and the only book I read thoroughly was Of Mice and Men. Every other major book was divided into tiny fragments that were shorter than three pages long, or we watched a video explaining the book.
>>25351250Grim shit
I'm surprised by the thread, it's way more than I expected. A lot of Of Mice and Men, and some pretty long books. I know the Odyssey and the Aeneid used to be in the USA curriculum, but I thought they would be some excerpts, not the whole book.
>>25351780I am this >>25351225 anon and I didn’t specify. The Odyssey was freshman year and not a full read. However, The Aeneid was AP English senior year and was a full read.
>>25350946Polack here. The only ones I can actually remember are Prus' Doll, Macbeth, Crime & Punishment and Camus' Plague.I also skipped straight to Pan Tadeusz's 13th book after being bored out of my mind by the first one.
Dropped out of high shcool >>25350946
>>25350946Romeo & JulietMacbeth???The TempestWe studied a Shakespeare play every year. I've been thinking how bad things are when teachers have to explain, apologize and justify the study of Shakespeare. It was presented as being archaic and difficult when it isn't, but that's what everyone learns.
>>25350946Books that I actually read and highly enjoyed:The TrialThe Bridge on the DrinaThe Brothers KaramazovThe StrangerThe Fall of the House of UsherDivine Comedy - InfernoFaustHamletBooks we had to read but teenage me found far too boring to actually read, so I just read a synopsis and cheated on my assignments:Eugene OneginAnna KareninaUncle VanyaWaiting for GodotDon QuixoteWe also had an option to read a book we chose ourselves, and then present it to the class for extra credit. Basically give a synopsis of the book, and then analyse the themes. I covered Catch-22, but other kids in class did stuff like Frankenstein or Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
>>25350946>To Kill a Mockingbird >Scarlet Letter >How Should We Then Live? >Lord of the Flies (School project) I'm blanking on some things, it's been 15 years since I graduated and 19 years since I started. went to Christian schools, so our sources for reading was also limited due to constraining factors of the schooling system.
>>25350946Hamlet, Metamorphosis, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies
The Great GatsbyThe CrucibleThe Glass MenagerieThe Cather in the RyeHamletThe MetamorphosisDante's InfernoMedeaTartuffe We mostly read short stories, short poems, or excerpts from longer poems (e.g., Paradise lost, The Faerie Queene, Beowulf, etc.)
>>25350964>T. Australiansame ausbro.I remember reading Macbeth too, but I also read Lord of the Flies, The Chocolate War (which I enjoyed so much I picked up the sequel and became a fan of Robert Cormier), Michael Gow's "Away" I think. I don't know, it's going back about a decade at this rate.
>>25350946Just genuine fucking trash. The Outsiders, Tangerine, Ender's Game those are the few that I remember. I hated Childhood's End at the time but reread it myself years later and enjoyed it well enough.
>>253509469th grade (can't remember much)>Romeo & Juliet10th grade>To Kill A Mockingbird>Lord of the Flies>Night>Oedipus Rex (not the other one)>Antigone11th grade>The Crucible>The Catcher in the RyeI got kicked out in 11th, sent to a camp, and the teacher wasn't qualified so I just self-studied for a grade and diploma which meant writing book reports on whatever I wanted to read like World of Warcrat novels lol
Fuck off with your data mining threads, wumao cunts.
