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i loved our req reading and i'm still in the middle of senior year so we haven't completed all of it

freshman
the alchemist
of mice and men
romeo and juliet
the cask of amontillado
the odyssey

sophomore
oedipus the king
things fall apart
the stranger
one day in the life of ivan denisovich
life of pi
the tempest

junior
the scarlet letter
the great gatsby
a bunch of poetry i can't really remember atm

senior
beowulf
hamlet
the canterbury tales
pride and prejudice
frankenstein
brave new world
sir gawain and the green knight
much ado about nothing
i loved our req reading and i'm still in the middle of senior year so we haven't completed all of it

freshman
the alchemist
of mice and men
romeo and juliet
the cask of amontillado
the odyssey

sophomore
oedipus the king
things fall apart
the stranger
one day in the life of ivan denisovich
life of pi
the tempest

junior
the scarlet letter
the great gatsby
a bunch of poetry i can't really remember atm

senior
beowulf
hamlet
the canterbury tales
pride and prejudice
frankenstein
brave new world
sir gawain and the green knight
much ado about nothing
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Oh gosh, I've forgotten most of it - and we didn't have many either. Let me see if I can't remember some.
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • The Crucible
  • Night
  • The Scarlet Letter
  • Hamlet
  • Canterbury Tales
  • Brave New Word
  • Jane Eyre
  • Hound of the Baskervilles
  • Cask of Amontillado
  • The Birds
  • The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
  • Antigone*
  • Midsummer Night's Dream*
  • Romeo and Juliet*


*Only required because I took Drama
Oh gosh, I've forgotten most of it - and we didn't have many either. Let me see if I can't remember some.
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • The Crucible
  • Night
  • The Scarlet Letter
  • Hamlet
  • Canterbury Tales
  • Brave New Word
  • Jane Eyre
  • Hound of the Baskervilles
  • Cask of Amontillado
  • The Birds
  • The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
  • Antigone*
  • Midsummer Night's Dream*
  • Romeo and Juliet*


*Only required because I took Drama
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I don't remember everything since a lot were short stories, but:

Grade 10
Macbeth
Lord of the Flies

Grade 11
Twelfth Night
Hamlet
Great Expectations
The Glass Menagerie

Grade 12
The Wars
King Lear
Medea
I don't remember everything since a lot were short stories, but:

Grade 10
Macbeth
Lord of the Flies

Grade 11
Twelfth Night
Hamlet
Great Expectations
The Glass Menagerie

Grade 12
The Wars
King Lear
Medea
I can't remember the years that I had to read these all in but these are the ones I do recall having to read. Some I liked and some I didn't of course

Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth
Julius Caesar
The Old Man and the Sea
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe
The Great Gatsby
Beowulf
Canterbury Tales
A Light in the Forest
The Lottery
Various poetry
Various Edgar Allan Poe stories
I can't remember the years that I had to read these all in but these are the ones I do recall having to read. Some I liked and some I didn't of course

Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth
Julius Caesar
The Old Man and the Sea
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe
The Great Gatsby
Beowulf
Canterbury Tales
A Light in the Forest
The Lottery
Various poetry
Various Edgar Allan Poe stories
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heh! I just made a list for my mother. I don't remember the exact order they were in though

High School

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
Lord of the Flies
The Catcher in the Rye
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Gatsby
The Sun Also Rises
Hamlet
Macbeth
Oedipus Rex
Heart of Darkness
Death of a Salesman
The Odyssey
Othello
The Crucible
The Scarlet Letter
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
The Things They Carried (maybe)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Great Expectations
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The Color of Water
Catch-22
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Nine Stories - JD Salinger
Walden
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
A Rose for Emily - William Faulkner
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (?? maybe)
Waiting for Godot
No Exit - Sartre

borrowed from teachers or friends:
Tuesdays with Morrie
The Metamorphosis
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich


Middle School

Green Angel
Fahrenheit 451
The Red Badge of Courage
To Kill a Mockingbird
Romeo & Juliet
Animal Farm
And Then There Were None
The House on Mango Street


Some of them I really liked and others...not. Some of these I didn't read at all! There were also a lot of short stories and poems I can't remember now.
heh! I just made a list for my mother. I don't remember the exact order they were in though

High School

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
Lord of the Flies
The Catcher in the Rye
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Gatsby
The Sun Also Rises
Hamlet
Macbeth
Oedipus Rex
Heart of Darkness
Death of a Salesman
The Odyssey
Othello
The Crucible
The Scarlet Letter
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
The Things They Carried (maybe)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Great Expectations
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The Color of Water
Catch-22
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Nine Stories - JD Salinger
Walden
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
A Rose for Emily - William Faulkner
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (?? maybe)
Waiting for Godot
No Exit - Sartre

borrowed from teachers or friends:
Tuesdays with Morrie
The Metamorphosis
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich


Middle School

Green Angel
Fahrenheit 451
The Red Badge of Courage
To Kill a Mockingbird
Romeo & Juliet
Animal Farm
And Then There Were None
The House on Mango Street


Some of them I really liked and others...not. Some of these I didn't read at all! There were also a lot of short stories and poems I can't remember now.

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I don't remember what years we did these in but I remember having to read many of the same books as other people in the thread:

Of Mice and Men (To Kill a Mockingbird and The Catcher in the Rye were also options, but the school chose Of Mice and Men because it's "easier" for kids to get good grades with)
Much Ado About Nothing
Macbeth (we were supposed to do Romeo & Juliet but my class kind of bullied the teacher into letting us study Macbeth instead)
Holes
An Inspector Calls
There was also a book about a kid who moves to London and ends up homeless. He gets into trouble with an organised crime group and his only friend (and possibly his dog?) is killed in an abandoned house really near the end. I can't, for the life of me, remember what it was called.

Those are the only ones I remember!
I don't remember what years we did these in but I remember having to read many of the same books as other people in the thread:

Of Mice and Men (To Kill a Mockingbird and The Catcher in the Rye were also options, but the school chose Of Mice and Men because it's "easier" for kids to get good grades with)
Much Ado About Nothing
Macbeth (we were supposed to do Romeo & Juliet but my class kind of bullied the teacher into letting us study Macbeth instead)
Holes
An Inspector Calls
There was also a book about a kid who moves to London and ends up homeless. He gets into trouble with an organised crime group and his only friend (and possibly his dog?) is killed in an abandoned house really near the end. I can't, for the life of me, remember what it was called.

Those are the only ones I remember!
hard for me to remember x.x'

read outsiders, Fahrenheit 451, the crysalids, mid summer nights dream, hamlet, Macbeth,...uhmm... to kill a mocking bird... and I can't remember any others x.x'
favourite by far was crysalids though.
hard for me to remember x.x'

read outsiders, Fahrenheit 451, the crysalids, mid summer nights dream, hamlet, Macbeth,...uhmm... to kill a mocking bird... and I can't remember any others x.x'
favourite by far was crysalids though.
I've only had to read very few.

Freshman:
Chronicas de una muerte anunciada (Chronicles of a Foretold Death) for Spanish

Junior:
The Pearl (Which I didn't even read, I just looked the summary up in Wikipedia.)

And this year, Senior year, I have to read Frankenstein and To Kill A Mockingbird for "Advanced English".
I've only had to read very few.

Freshman:
Chronicas de una muerte anunciada (Chronicles of a Foretold Death) for Spanish

Junior:
The Pearl (Which I didn't even read, I just looked the summary up in Wikipedia.)

And this year, Senior year, I have to read Frankenstein and To Kill A Mockingbird for "Advanced English".
From what I remember...

I read Harry Potter, LOTR, Tbe Hobbit, To Kill a Mockingbird, Moby ****, the actual version of one of Shakespeare's plays, Of Mice and Men, all of Poe's works, and some other books.

Everyone else read To Kill a Mockingbird, one or five chapters of Moby ****, a crappy translation of one of Shakespeare's plays, and the Of Mice and Men movie.

EDIT: ....uh, I'm sure everyone knows what Moby is (a name that starts with D). Sort about that.
From what I remember...

I read Harry Potter, LOTR, Tbe Hobbit, To Kill a Mockingbird, Moby ****, the actual version of one of Shakespeare's plays, Of Mice and Men, all of Poe's works, and some other books.

Everyone else read To Kill a Mockingbird, one or five chapters of Moby ****, a crappy translation of one of Shakespeare's plays, and the Of Mice and Men movie.

EDIT: ....uh, I'm sure everyone knows what Moby is (a name that starts with D). Sort about that.
My writing project.
Let's see what I can remember...

Freshman:
The Bean Trees
The Odyssey
Romeo and Juliet
Of Mice and Men
The Scarlet Ibis
The Sniper
The Most Dangerous Game
The Tiger or the Lady
And some book that was surprisingly religious for public school (can't remember what it was called, just that the father of the main character was an obvious Jesus figure.)

Sophomore:
Dante's Inferno
The Alchemist
Lord of the Flies
Siddhartha
The Lady's Number One Detective Agency (by choice, had to choose an author outside of the US. Most people chose The Kite Runner for some reason.)

Junior:
The Great Gatsby
The Crucible
Anthem
The Things They Carried
Carrie (again by choice)

Senior:
Our senior class instead focused on writing research papers. We did read one book, but I forgot the name and quite frankly only read half of anyway. Didn't care much for it.

I read To Kill a Mockingbird and Huckleberry Fin in 8th grade.
Let's see what I can remember...

Freshman:
The Bean Trees
The Odyssey
Romeo and Juliet
Of Mice and Men
The Scarlet Ibis
The Sniper
The Most Dangerous Game
The Tiger or the Lady
And some book that was surprisingly religious for public school (can't remember what it was called, just that the father of the main character was an obvious Jesus figure.)

Sophomore:
Dante's Inferno
The Alchemist
Lord of the Flies
Siddhartha
The Lady's Number One Detective Agency (by choice, had to choose an author outside of the US. Most people chose The Kite Runner for some reason.)

Junior:
The Great Gatsby
The Crucible
Anthem
The Things They Carried
Carrie (again by choice)

Senior:
Our senior class instead focused on writing research papers. We did read one book, but I forgot the name and quite frankly only read half of anyway. Didn't care much for it.

I read To Kill a Mockingbird and Huckleberry Fin in 8th grade.
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