Did you get assigned quality literature while you were in high school?

Did you get assigned quality literature while you were in high school?

was this cover inspired by John Greene

That is amazing
I love this board

I want a physical copy with this cover.

> my secondary school's english classes
> Romeo & Juliet
> The Tempest
> Silas Marner
> The Withered Arm
> Journey's End
> 1984
> Of Mice & Men
> various WW1 poetry

I think it's a pretty good introduction to literature at 14 years old.

I liked The Great Gatsby, A clean well-lighted place by Hemingway, and a couple of short stories we read. The rest was aiight.

>kek at pic related
>click thumbnail
>Bloom quote
>FUCKING KEK
10/10 well meme'd

anyways OMaM was my favorite high school reading. It was short but dense with themes conducive to discussions that were uncharacteristically serious for my freshman class.
Catcher, 1984, and other popular high school lit always leads to shitty debate and only a handful of kids "get it".
The only real complaint teens have about Mice is that it's too sad, but the themes always sparked the best discussions.

9th grade
>none

10th grade
>Of Mice and Men
>The Masque of Red Death
>Antigone
>Much Ado About Nothing

11th
>the crucible

12th
>none

Not really.

We didn't get assigned anything. We could pick whatever we wanted to, after asking the teacher if it were up to standards.

9th: >romeo and juliet
>to kill a mockingbird
10th: >f451
>macbeth
11th: none
12th: none

>Gatsby
>The Road
>1984
>Brave New World
>Their Eyes Were Watching God
>Hamlet
>The Stranger
>Catch 22
>The Metamorphosis

Been awhile so I'm sure I've missed a fair few. Took two AP lit classes with very solid selections.

Ovid or Kafka?

Portrait of an Artist
Crime and Punishment
Jane Eyre
Invisible Man
Ethan Frome

Probably the biggest reason i enjoy reading so much was because of this class. Ethan Frome was shitty though.

Slavfag reporting in - Jesus, USA, your school education is awful.

Of Mice And Men
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Great Gatsby
Animal Farm

We tend to read literature that is relevant to our country and its history.

Animal Farm
The Cay by Theodore Taylor (had to google "Hurricane black man book" to find this)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Hamlet
Some British and Irish poetry

Senior English was comprised of:

>The Alchemist (the teachers favorite book, apparently?)
>Escape from Camp 14 (book about North Korea)
>1984 (followed by required viewing of V for Vendetta)
>The Vagina Monologues

and that's it

Where?

Sweden

San Francisco

really
what a pile of crap, only 1984 is semi-good

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Maine
lmao forgot that we also read
>Stephen King - On Writing

good question. i went to south chicagoland public school, if that helps set some sort of context.

9th - Romeo and Juliet, To Kill a Mockingbird, Hamlet

10th - The Pearl, The Old Man and the Sea, Lord of the Flies, House on Mango Street, and a lot of poetry that year

11th - The Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye, The Call of the Wild, Huckleberry Finn, Of Mice and Men

12th - (it got a bit more interesting here) The Stranger, The Plague, The Bluest Eye, Sherman Alexie shit, a good amount of Yukio Mishima, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Things Fall Apart, The Metamorphosis, On the Road, A Clockwork Orange and more.

Only literature I have been assigned was in year 9, and 10.
Year 9
>The Outsider. fucking pleb tier
Year 10
>Oedipus Rex.
Other than that we got to choose the books we read for assignments
Year 8
>1984
Year 9
>Metamorphosis, and American Psycho
Year 10
>The Stranger
Teacher chose our texts after that.

>9th: Moonfleet (J. Meade Falkner)*, Twelveth Night
>10th: To Kill a Mockingbird, Romeo and Juliet
>11th: Frankenstein, Death of a Salesman, Macbeth
>12th: Great Gatsby, Hamlet
>on top on this each class had its own project where we chose our own book to read

*(Wikipedia tells me this book, some adventure story about pirates I think (I don't remember much), used to be popular but I don't think it really stuck around as a classic because I literally hear nothing about it anywhere. I think we read it because the teacher read it as a kid or something.)

My high school didn't have literature classes. Just an all around English class where only a small part was about reading and the rest about writing and giving presentations. That's why we only read a few books a year for school. I envy many of you because it looks like your classes were 1000 times more interesting than mine.

For some reason most of the the English teachers at our school were mostly interested in shit like making dioramas (in a fucking university preperation class) rather than actually learning how to analyze literature. We got into that in the 12th grade and it was such a bombshell of ideas that I barely got through it.

Freshman:
>To Kill a Mockingbird
>Great Expectations
>Frankenstein
>Romeo and Juliet
Sophomore:
>Crucible
>Adventures of Huck Finn
>Great Gatsby
>Catcher in the Rye
Junior (AP Lang):
>Portrait of Artist as a Young Man
>not much, mostly a writing class, but the school district requires one novel per school year
Senior (AP Lit):
>The Odyssey
>King Lear
>Antigone
>Catch-22
>Invisible Man
>My Name is Asher Lev
pretty patrician school desu.

I also read Metamorphoses and the Aeneid in Latin class.

Went to a private Catholic high school and took honors/AP English
Wasn't bad, we did some Greeks
>odyssey
>illiad
>antigone
Some classic stuff
>inferno
>a few Shakespeare works
>probably more that I can't remember
Mostly generic HS stuff though
>great gatsby
>catcher in the rye
>fahrenheit 451
>scarlet letter
>farewell to arms
>Les Miserables (abridged)
>to kill a mockingbird
>lord of the flies
>tale of two cities
>etc
Along with plenty of poetry and short stories

In all the years I've been visiting Veeky Forums, I've never been able to get into Veeky Forums, and this post is the prime, unadulterated reason why.
Once a year or so I come here, thinking that maybe I've gained some kind of maturity that I lacked before that would illuminate me as to why this board is essential and what I was missing before that denied me that experience, and every time I come away with the same bitter taste in my mouth.
This board isn't about people who love literature, it's a bunch of children who have barely achieved the mental capacity to understand anything more complicated than Y/A fiction engaging in a circle jerk about how theyre better than everyone else they've ever known because they pretend to enjoy Pride and Prejudice or Ethan Frome. And the best part, my favorite part of this experience, is that few of these people cam validate these opinions. Sure, there's a few of you that actually enjoyed The Odyssey or Moby Dick, and can explain why, but the vast majority just give some half assed "the plot is just too complicated for you" type answer.
And, even better, is this weird hatred for anything popular written after the 1950s. Oh, sure, you guys enjoy LoTR like the rest of the peasants, but only because you get the, "true, deep tones," that no one else does. But woe be to any book written after 1955 that has any semblance of popularity.
And this stuff about Harry Potter. I stopped enjoying the Harry Potter books in my early teens, simply because I had read them too many times to enjoy them anymore, but Veeky Forums really hates them, and is incapable of giving an in depth reason beyond, "SJW TRASH LOLOL," or, "MUH SIMPLE STORYTELLING."
It's a kids series, a wildly popular kids series, and Veeky Forums only has to see as far as how many copies have been sold to know that they'll hate it.
But who the fuck knows, maybe I'll come back next year and the fog from my mind will be lifted, and I'll be just like the rest of you assholes, bragging about my "advanced" literary tastes while denying the validity of anything with any semblance of popular enjoyment.
God I hope not.

>>>/reddit.com/r/books/

>freshman
Boy
Romeo and Juliet
Ethan Frome
Great Expectations
To Kill a Mockingbird
>sophomore
Lord of the Flies
Canterbury Tales
Night
Tale of Two Cities
Julius Caesar
Antigone
>junior
Women of Brewster Place
The Crucible
Invisible Man
Huck Finn
Scarlet Letter
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
Raisin in the Sun
Great Gatsby
>senior
Beloved
Hamlet
The Stranger
The Metamorphosis
A Doll House
Wuthering Heights
Waiting for Godot
Their Eyes were Watching God

I remember we got assigned Candide in elementary school.

>9th Grade
Things Fall Apart
100 Years of Solitude
>10th Grade
The Scarlet Letter
Huck Finn
A River Runs Through It
Our Town
A Rose For Emily
>11th Grade
Macbeth
Canterbury Tales
Beowulf
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Brave New World
>12th Grade
Hamlet
The Great Gatsby
The Awakening
The Things They Carried
A Farewell to Arms

>yr 7:
Midsummer Night's Dream
The Arrival

>yr 8:
Merchant of Venice

>yr 9
Cloud Street + other Tim Winton short stories
Romeo and Juliet
Bunch of Romantic Poetry

>yr 10
Macbeth
Dracula fuck you I liked it
To Kill a Mockingbird

>yr 11
Catcher in the Rye
Othello


>yr 12
Hamlet
Gatsby
The Crucible

*discernible

>get assigned a 140 page book which was required reading for holidays-5 weeks into year 12
>only 2 out of 28 students read the book
Any other public schooled australians? We don't exactly have niggers here but I feel as if the average australian is pretty close

I don't even remember school. (Even though it's only been a couple years since I graduated.)

Yep. About 50% of my class never read anything we were given and just bullshitted assessments, and this was a fucking selective school.

Yeah. My high school was like this even though it was a pretty high regarded school. In english some pleb wrote an intertexual comparison task about The Kings Speech, and The Intouchables. Wrote a vague essay that showed simple understanding of the films, then instead of intergrating quotes into the paragraphs she just dump the quote at the end of the paragraph on a new line. She also had no grammer skills what so ever, and constantly used antagonist instead of protagonist. Had to peer asses the draft because my teacher was lazy. Gave it a d+/ c- at best. She complained to the teacher, teacher agreed with my comments on the draft but I 'marked too hard'

+ no one in my history class did anything and passed up half assed assignments and complained when the teacher (who still was a hard marker) only gave them C's

It makes you wonder where we got this perception of the excellence of australian schools from.
It's just like nobody gives a fuck anymore. People were getting scores in the low 10-30%'s repeatedly and never even attempted to change. It was all about drinking, sports, clubbing and drugs, to the students it was unfathomable that they'd have to do anything else during school, especially homework.
Am I just being autistic here?

Well i was certainly able to get through schools with A's and high B's in the subjects I undertook while engaging in teenage parties and getting too drunk too many times. Though at a few parties I did end up reading alot + saying my lines for drama while drunk walking home many times

I think the schools and the education system are good, but the students tend to be kind of retarded. Not to mention the fact that we do have a pretty good tertiary education system when compared to a lot of other countries, hence the ridiculous amount of Chinese students you get at universities.

tfw Chinese students used to berate me for being a socialist
>muh 5 year plan didnt work
>muh mao tried to get full communism
>muh communism doesnt work because human nature is static

Also they couldnt sting proper sentances together and it was a hell to even talk to them

I had a dream last night that I bought a copy of Infinite Jest and it was a 1000+ pages commentary on Pale Fire.

oh yeah and DFW argued that Nabokov was a morphium addict

Take a look at the spelling
>The Metamorphosis = Kafka
>Metamorphoses = Ovid

is this a joke because of the inf jest meme and am I autistic for pointing this out while typing on the shitter

>Divine Comedy
>Decameron
>Antigone
>Iliad
>Odissey
>Aeneid
>Various bits and pieces of Ancient Greek / Latin / Italian texts, the Ancient Greek and Latin ones we often had to translate
>The Bethroted
>Dubliners
>Waiting for Godot
>Romeo and Juliet
>Macbeth
>Novels for a year (Verga)
>Canti (Leopardi)

Maybe some other stuff, but I mostly read on the side whatever I felt like reading. Gave me a pretty good basis of literary knowledge.

Yes. I also enjoyed toilet paper that looked JUST like the image in the OP.

What a coincidence.

Yes, but the progressives in charge are trying to change it.
We had
Catcher in the Rye
Antigone
Oedipus Rex
Parts of Illiad and Odyssey
Parts of Inferno, Decameron and Cancionere, but I've read them in full
Suffering of Young Werther
Candide
Crime and Punishment
Madame Bovary
Pere Goriot

Also, national literature.
It was pretty good, shame there was so little interest.

Hai fatto il classico?

Esatto. Pur avendolo mediamente odiato, guardandomi indietro lo trovo una delle esperienze più importanti della mia vita.

where the fuck did you go to school? definitely not a comp

Italian public highschool. What's comp?

Stesso

This place is getting to you, user. Stay away for a while.

9th grade
>Animal Farm
>Romeo and Juliet
5/10
10th grade
>Lord of the Flies
>Curious Case of the Dog in the Nightime
>book of our own choice (being the edgy 14 yr old that I was I chose Fight Club)
3.5/10
11th grade
>Hamlet
>Anatomy of Melancholy
>Social Contract
>Pensees
>Candide
>Various 16th-18th century British poetry
9/10 (teacher was based; didn't tolerate any YA or muh diversity in literature)
12th grade
>Looking for Alaska
>Farewell to Arms
>Old Man and the Sea
6/10 (it would have been a 3 if not for Old Man)

Also forgot 11th grade: Franny and Zooey
12th grade: Gatsby

comprehensive. A type of school in the UK, they're shit.

I don't live in an english speaking country. The literature we get assigned seems to be different to some of the books that are assigned in other countries.

Take not that our 'years' are different, this refers to the last 4 years before college...
rd year
>Quiroga, short stories
>Neruda
th year
>Lazarillo de Tormes
th year
>Iliad
>Bible
>Divine Comedy
>Macbeth
>Quixote
th year
>Werther
>Chronicle of a Foretold Death
>The Raven (poem)
>The Flowers of Evil
>Pedro Paramo
>Trilce (Vallejo)
>A Hunger Artist

I had the same teacher in the last two years. I was in the scientific class during the 5th year, and in the math/physics class during the 6th year, so our assigned readings were "watered-down"...

>of mice and men
>romeo and juliet
>1984 (in our sci-fi class)
>oedipus rex
>hamlet
>the awakening

thats about all i can remember. pretty typical

Yes, but ony quality National (Brazil) literature like Machado de Assis, Graciliano Ramos, Guimarães Rosa, and few portugues literature like Luizs Vás de Camões

Heh, alright.

SEE YA

My middle school teacher made us read The Giver. Red-pilled me pretty good in only 200 pages and I enjoyed it. Other than that it was just boring "award winning classics" like Gatsby or Catcher in the Rye in high school.

> 9th
Animal Farm
Night
Of Mice and Men
Romeo & Juliet
> 10th
1984
Brave New World
Oedipus Rex
Macbeth
> 11th
Catch-22
Slaughterhouse Five
The Crucible
The Scarlet Letter
The Things They Carried
> 12th
None

>The Giver
>redpilled me
>Gatsby or Catcher in the Rye
>boring
Oh my sweet summer pleb

Some of the books I've read in high school:
>Animal Farm
>The Plague
>Crime and Punishment
>The Street of Crocodiles
>The Deluge
>Ferdydurke
>Heart of Darkness
>Macbeth
>The Trial

I'm from Poland

I went to technical schools, so no reading for me

fuckin hated Animal Farm, my fat feminist English teacher made us read it