[Fiji Hill]

Some of the books that were required reading in English classes when I was in high school:

Ninth Grade
The Odyssey/Homer
Julius Caesar/William Shakespeare

Tenth Grade
Great Expectations/Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment/Fyodor Dostoevskii
Huckleberry Finn/Mark Twain
Animal Farm/George Orwell

Eleventh Grade
Moby Dick/Herman Melville
The Scarlet Letter/Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Red Badge of Courage/Stephen Crane
Our Town/Thornton Wilder

[napscoordinator]

Add Pride and Prejudice, Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, The Red Pony, The Good Earth, and more I am sure that I can't remember.

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

Looks like my daughters high school.

[married21]

This is my daughter’s 10th Grade summer reading list. There are a bunch of depressing ones.

Unearthly by Cynthia Hand
The Warrior Heir by Cinda Chima
Pathfinder by Orson Scott Card
The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher
The Maze Runner by James Dasher
Uglies by Scott Westerfield

I think the Sarah Byrnes book is about a pregnant teen.

Have you read any of these? How bad are they?

[LadyDoc]

yes. My reading list in high school was similar. Our teachers were lousy and that made it worse.

But the bad news is it made me hate classical books...

so it wasn’t until I retired that I got a chance to listen to decent teachers (some from free university podcasts, a few from the teaching company from the local library)for me to enjoy Home and Virgil...one of these days, I might actually try to get through Moby Dick...