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ST Poll: You have to assign 5 books to be read in high school. What 5 do you choose **rules inside

Posted by ty97 Oct 27 '21, 07:54

**rules: You have to stick to things that would tend to be on the overall list of high school reading options, you can't just list 5 random books you like or a bunch of 'graphic novels' SPAWN

Responses:

Frankenstein, Their Eyes Were Watching God, 100 Years of Solitude, Turn of the Screw, To Kill a Mockingbird. -- nm - Dark Callisto Oct 27, 09:06
To Kill a Mockingbird, Romeo and Juliet, Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank), I know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Brave New World -- nm - Dano Oct 27, 08:41
Lord of Flies, To Kill a Mocking Bird, 1984, The Crow Road and We Need to Talk About Kevin - LMS Oct 27, 08:21 1
- yeah! slip some Banks in there. -- nm - mud Oct 27, 08:33
I spent way too much time on this: Animal Farm, Of Mice & Men, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Handmaid's Tale -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Oct 27, 08:13 1
- I also believe Irving should be taught - I like Cider House Rules for the themes and topic but others would also qualify for study -- nm - rollo Oct 27, 10:08
Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, Of Mice and Men, Brave New World, The Book Thief -- nm - Krusty Oct 27, 08:12 1
- It's hard to pick just five as I'd want to include things like I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and plays like A Raisin in the Sun - Krusty Oct 27, 08:19
I would say I'm not well-read enough to assign books that'd be more appropriate for a modern kid. Five literary classics seems unwise. -- nm - Qale Oct 27, 08:12
I think a rule should be at least one African-American author and one female author -- nm - flavorize Oct 27, 08:10 4
- Great, now this thread is banned in Texas. -- nm - Reagen Oct 27, 08:21
- And that's where I fall short on being able to put in five good books unless I go like Little Women. -- (edited) - spamlet Oct 27, 08:19
- I've been trying to figure out if my high school reading succeeded at either of these and I'm not sure. -- nm - ty97 Oct 27, 08:12
- *adds Kindred by Octavia Butler* Done! -- nm - Full Size Candy Baron Oct 27, 08:12
I would prefer not to. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 27, 08:09 1
- Bartleby the Scrivener it is -- nm - rollo Oct 27, 09:41
Tale of Two Cities, Shakespear, 1984, Lord of the Flies, To Kill a Mockingbird -- nm - Pippy Oct 27, 08:07
1984, Catcher in the Rye, Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451, Neuromancer -- nm - VMan Oct 27, 08:06
100 Years of Solitude, Merchant of Venice, The Old Man and the Sea, The Remains of the Day, Of Mice and Men -- nm - znufrii Oct 27, 08:06
I really enjoyed Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Marquez. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 27, 08:05
The collective works of Cormac McCarthy -- nm - decline Oct 27, 08:01 3
- You're going to destroy the kids' ability to use punctuation. -- nm - Full Size Candy Baron Oct 27, 08:16
- whoa -- nm - mud Oct 27, 08:03
- "we had to watch The Road twice and let me tell you, it was not as funny the second time!" -- nm - Reagen Oct 27, 08:02
I'll be nice and give them fairly short works. - Full Size Candy Baron Oct 27, 08:00 5
- F**k Faulkner. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 27, 08:02 4
  - It's the shortest Faulkner! -- nm - Full Size Candy Baron Oct 27, 08:08 3
    - The worst teacher I ever had grew up in his town…she loved him and assigned his garbage. - Will Hunting Oct 27, 08:16 2
      - :-] -- nm - mud Oct 27, 08:19 1
        
        Me and a girl swapped papers after we complained about the grading guys and girls got. - Will Hunting Oct 27, 08:22
Hamlet, To Kill a Mockingbird, Wizard of Oz, Das Kapital, Diary of Anne Frank. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 27, 08:00
Lord of the Flies, 1984, Shakespeare, Old Man and the Sea and I'll drop a new one in The Martian -- nm - Boooooooker Oct 27, 07:59 4
- The Martian is fun but does not stand up to that level of analysis. -- nm - Reagen Oct 27, 08:00 3
  - I was thinking more pimping of science, intelligence and working together -- nm - Boooooooker Oct 27, 08:04 2
    - DGMW, totally worthy of a book report type assignment or just to encourage kids to enjoy reading. It's not deep enough to go up against like - Reagen Oct 27, 08:09 1
      - fair -- nm - Boooooooker Oct 27, 08:10
1) East of Eden 2) The Cider House Rules 3) Kane and Abel 4) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 5) Catch-22 -- nm - rollo Oct 27, 07:58
not for anything, but I would assign the scifi epic Hyperion for sure. -- nm - Jovian Oct 27, 07:57
Hamlet, Lear, … - spamlet Oct 27, 07:55 14
- We did one Shakespeare a year from G9 on. Not many novel studies as a result. - Reagen Oct 27, 07:58 3
  - We did as well growing up. Pretty sure the same 4. -- nm - spamlet Oct 27, 08:08 2
    - We added Othello and Lear into ours. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 27, 08:23 1
      - I would have like MacBeth or Lear over R&J or MSNsD - Reagen Oct 27, 08:26
- As much as I don't get the Shakespeare love, it would be deficient to not assign at least one in high school I figure. -- nm - ty97 Oct 27, 07:57 9
  - I'm the same way, I question if high schoolers can really comprehend the depth of his work until later, making that study inefficient. - Max Oct 27, 09:21
  - I don't remember reading much more than one or two from him. I know we read Hamlet and we might have also read A Midsummer Night's Dream. -- nm - Krusty Oct 27, 08:28
  - AND NOT EFFING ROMEO AND JULIET - spamlet Oct 27, 07:58 6
    - Oh man. We read out all ours. With assigned roles and everything. -- nm - Reagen Oct 27, 07:59 5
      - How does it work? -- nm - spamlet Oct 27, 08:07 4
        
        ...not well. Or did you mean the mechanics of it? - Reagen Oct 27, 08:13 3
        
        The IM. Is it more understandable than reading it? -- nm - spamlet Oct 27, 08:17 2
        
        a little. It didn't really click in until we watched filmed versions. -- nm - Reagen Oct 27, 08:21 1
        
        Richard III (1995)!!! -- nm - mud Oct 27, 08:30

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