>be me >a sci-fi writer >Speaking to some Serb friend >I mention that the only book I read during my time at high school was Of Mice and Men cause it was compulsory for my English exam >He laughs >I insist what I previously stated >He asks with some laughter still in his lungs, 'so you didn't read Shakespeare; or Ivanhoe at school?' >'No, we watched the Romeo and Juliet film with Leonardo DiCaprio;' I said 'and then analysed the Mercutio/Tybalt confrontation scene as it was said to be on our exam.'
There was a pause after his laughter died and then he sent me this. All I did in English was write pretend newspaper article and persuasive letters.
So my question is...well, the title of this thread. I'm English btw
Just asked what my girlfriend read while at school; she said of mice and men as well but she also read The Outsiders.
Alexander Ortiz
most better known shakespeare works bible epic of gilgamesh beowulf great gatsby homer select other greeks if you took latin at my school you read virgil and stuff like such as in spanish we read stuff like marquez and borges (en español) 1974 brave new world catch22 slaughterhousefive i dunno lots of books
Charles Allen
Interesting topic OP. Frenchfag here, let's try to remember
Molière, Dom Juan Molière, Tartuffe Molière, Les précieuses ridicules Corneille, Le Cid (not so sure)
Zola, Au bonheur des dames Balzac, La recherche de l'absolu Kafka, La métamorphose Flaubert, Trois contes
E.M. Remarque, A l'ouest rien de nouveau (history class)
Yeah we study a lot of theatre, I guess it's because it's easier to read when you're 13-14
Long live Serbia.
David Morales
OP here, if you're still interested in theatre I'd recommend a book called The Empty Space by Peter Brook
Jackson Gonzalez
Italian reporting in. You can't be serious. They made us read and analyze both Macbeth and Hamlet in English. British education can't be that bad. tfw US education is probably that bad
Josiah Ortiz
>Elementary School We read King Lear in some special meetings for gifted students I went to every week. I couldn't understand it and failed all the work so they wouldn't let me back in next year. Other than that, the closest thing to Veeky Forums was Lord of the Flies. The rest were various Children's books I forget.
>High school >Freshmen: J. Meade Falkner's Moonfleet, a rather mediocore adventure book. Would choose Treasure Island over it any way of the week. Twelfth Night Pick your own, I chose Catch-22
>Sophomore To Kill a Mockingbord Romeo and Juliet pick your own, I chose The Crying of Lot 49
>Junior Frankenstein Macbeth pick your own, I chose Kafka's The Castle
>Senior The Great Gatsby Hamlet pick your own, I chose Wuthering Heights
I think I went to a shit school or something, because... well just look at these choices. Also, apparently everyone I talked to in university had literature and poetry courses in high school, and we just had plain English class where most of it was learning how to write essays and shit.
Kevin Cook
We were meant to read Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Holes and Private Peaceful but we'd just watch the films. We read the first four chapters of Private Peaceful but never went back to it if that counts for something.
Gabriel Walker
During middle school they made us read moralistic children-oriented books that bored everyone to tears. During the first year of high school we read a Brazilian classic (Dom Casmurro) but then they dropped the required reading and focused on teaching techniques to pass our SAT-like test. Literature classes were a fucking joke.
Grayson Butler
>focused on teaching techniques to pass our SAT-like test
Jackson Ramirez
Through high school we covered A very generous unit on Greek society and culture that included the Illiad and the Odyssey (in honors English anyway) Half of Shakespeare's works or so Various "classics" A shitty unit on trascendentalism Various diversity books
I had to read a lot more pseudy stuff in college ironically
Gavin Gonzalez
3 books a year?
Jaxon Wright
nice dubs + that's not that bad a selection for an introduction to lit desu
Ryan Sullivan
>Elementary To Kill a Mockingbird (actually the teacher read it to us)
Various Goosebumps and Cam Jansen books. Got bored of Cam Jansen at some point.
>Middle The Giver
The Outsiders
>High A book about a Chinese girl going back to China to meet her biological parents. I forgot the name but i didn't like it anyways.
Could've read Hunger Games but I didn't get to.
Hamlet and Macbeth
I actually had a hard time reading Shakespeare because the play format always ticked me off. It just made me want to watch the play since I actually enjoyed the story and the analysis.
Overall I enjoyed The Giver the most and am having a hard time understanding why To Kill a Mockingbird was read to us in Elementary. Shouldn't it have been Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn?
Daniel White
I'm going to list the name in iltalian becouse i don't know the english name, sorry in advance
>Elementary Storia di una gabbianella e del gatto che le insegnò a volare (Sepùvelda)
Cuore (de Amicis)
>High school
The hell part of the Divina commedia and Vita nova (Dante)
Decameron (Boccaccio)
Operette morali (Leopardi)
Orlando furioso (Ariosto)
Locandiera (Goldoni)
La coscienza di Zeno (Svevo)
Il fu Mattia Pascal (Pirandello)
Plus a lot of petry, but i don't remember. Sadly i went to a technical school, so no greeks for me
Evan Hernandez
Not who you're replying to but I'm a brazilian as well, I don't remember the exact situation but a portugese teacher once told us "there is literally no reason to read these books, you only need to get a good enough grade to get into college".
I had to read a lot more than that after switching schools though, we usually read a canon work of the portuguese language a month and were also expected to provide weekly reports on stuff we could pick from the library, based on which grade we were in
Ethan Allen
american private school until 4th grade, then public school for the rest of it. middle school i went to a "gifted" school so we read better books than the usual.
>elementary little house on the prairie (we read like the whole series, it was when I went to private school though) hatchet upside down stories from wayside school
>middle lion, witch, wardrobe wrinkle in time ender's game secret garden maniac macgee spoon river anthology to kill a mockingbird tuck everlasting johnny tremain huckleberry finn farenheit 451 hamlet much ado about nothing lots of historical stuff i don't remember
>high school tale of two cities a separate peace julius caesar romeo and juliet the bible (as in literature, it was a dumb unit) scarlet letter lord of the flies to kill a mockingbird animal farm great gatsby catcher in the rye tuesdays with morrie hamlet
there's other stuff I'm sure I'm forgetting, and like short stories and plays that aren't worth including.
Nathaniel Gonzalez
lies no schools has bible for reading
Charles Foster
I didn't finish high school so I didn't get to read much.
James Walker
I don't remember what books we had to read in all years but in the last three we read: Galileo by Brecht Fault in our Stars by Green Faust I by Goethe Woyzeck by Büchner 1984 by Orwell Some irrelevant drama about the Queen of Britain Macbeth by Shakespeare And also parts of the Odyssee, the histories by Herodot, Kriton by plato, and some Sappho all of course in ancient Greek. As well as De Bello Gallico, Ciceros speeches and some Catullus poems all of course in Latin.
Levi Mitchell
Not him but I went to catholic school and we did
Xavier Roberts
Oh I forgot Tauben im Gras by Koeppen and the process by Kafka
David Gonzalez
I'm English too, it seems we read much less in school than other countries. I was in the top group for English and we only read To Kill a Mockingbird (shit book).
Jose Robinson
I think we read La Celestina, a Galdós novel that I can't recall, Márquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold and some really terrible Catalan literature. Plenty of poems and plays by Lorca too.
I wish they at least tried to teach us the Quijote desu
Dylan Bell
I went through the highest form of secondary education in germany in a pretty good school so there was quite some reading:
faust, werther, berlichingen - Goethe tell, stuart - Schiller wave - Strasser scuderi - Hoffmann trial, several short stories - Kafka physicists - Dürrenmatt faber - Frisch danton - Büchner agnes - Stamm death of a salesman - Miller 1984 - Orwell heart of darkness - Conrad macbeth - Shakespeare
and some other less importan and more shitty ones I cant remember
Elijah Foster
English here. State school education. I only started reading about 5 years after secondary school they put me off it that much. I look at these lists and feel like I was cheated. This is the full extent of my literary education.
Books Read: A single chapter of oliver twist. To kill a Mocking Bird Stone Cold (Young Adult book about a man who killed the homeless because he thought they made the city dirty)
Plays: Excerpts from Romeo and Juliett. A view from a bridge.
Sebastian Anderson
well of course but not the whole Bible c'mon
Connor Ortiz
The Outsiders, Hinton Julius Caesar, Shakespeare To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee Twelfth Night, Shakespeare The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald Lord of the Flies, Golding Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck Othello, Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare Macbeth, Shakespeare The Road, McCarthy
Also a shit ton of short stories, poetry, and independent book reports. I went to a public (government) school in Canada. I took no extra literature credits outside of what was mandatory.
Carter Robinson
Oh, and in grade six my class read Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli, which was the only mandatory novel before high school (which begins in grade nine where I'm from). That being said, there was at least one independent book report a year throughout middle school.
Tyler Adams
Britbong here. Off the top of my head I can recall at least four Shakespeare plays, 1984, Catch-22, Of Mice and Men, war poetry, some Tennyson, some Chaucer, an assortment of other poets, possibly Lord of the Flies.
And my school was a good one and I did English A-Level, so I guess it might be true that the British education system sucks.
Ayden Murphy
Too much t b h, how did they expect 17 year olds to understand Camus?
im just glad there's another il/lit/erate serb here
Jack Howard
I attended a bilingual school, so I got the translations of some all time classics and plenty of Hispanic literature.
Iliad - Homer The Great Gatsby - Scott Fitzgerald The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Antigona - Sofocles Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carrol One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kessey Pedro Páramo - Juan Rulfo The Stranger - Albert Camus La Ciudad de las Bestias - Isabel Allende La Celestina - Fernando de Rojas La Ultima Niebla - María Luisa Bombal El Túnel - Ernesto Sabato Six Characters in Search of an Author - Luigi Pirandello La Vida es Sueño - Pedro Calderón de la Barca Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Niebla - Miguel de Unamuno The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka El Aleph - Jorge Luis Borges Altazor - Vicente Huidobro Cien Años de Soledad - Gabriel García Marquez Don Quijote de la Mancha - Miguel de Cervantes Rayuela - Julio Cortázar
I think I got it good.
Evan White
No, standardized testing is a fucking joke.
Aiden Richardson
Camus is for 18 year olds But yeah, I agree that the number of the books is ridiculous, and generally taught in the driest and most pointless way possible. My prof was luckily very good, so I actually got into lit at that time, and enjoyed reading all of that shit... But don't worry, Pavo "ctrl+v" Barišić is going to fix all of that now.
Aiden Gonzalez
The Lord of the Flies To Kill a Mockingbird Life of Pi Kon-Tiki Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet The Scarlet Letter The Crucible Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass The Jungle The Stranger Crime and Punishment Beowulf Things Fall Apart Heart of Darkness The Prince
That's just what I can remember.
Jace King
Also The Great Gatsby and The Metamorphosis
Kevin Sanders
You got it fucking great. Niebla is my favourite book. I always thought Veeky Forums would really like Unamuno, but I don't hear his name often around here. Also, Six characters and La vida es sueño, top tier.
Ayden Collins
damn. I was made to read Romeo and Juliet some awful contemporary novel about trans people some awful novel about an autistic kid Macbeth (non fiction book of my choice, Orthodoxy) Hamlet
t.canadian education brainlet
Matthew Nguyen
eventually
Robert Sanders
i only read books that were required for school aswell when i was younger, never read of mice and men until recently, it made me cry
t. cuck
Mason Sanchez
In my private school in Australia melbourne ( all boys ) we were made to read kite runner, an iraqi lad basically witnesses a rape of his best friend and it's boring as fuck.
Parker Johnson
Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet Our Town, Thornton Wilder Great Expectations To Kill A Mockingbird Of Mice and Men 1984 Brave New World Lord of the Flies Huckleberry Finn The Grapes of Wrath The Great Gatsby Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry Howard's End Waiting for Godot The Stranger Less Than Zero
various poems and short stories I don't care to recall
Kayden Robinson
>watched that same Romeo and Juliet and O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Lion King due to its basis in Hamlet, and Much Ado About Nothing >read Of Mice and Men, Night, Lord of the Flies, The Crucible, Beowulf, Shakespeare's sonnets, Hamlet twice, and The Hunger Games There would have been more entries but I did basically nothing while home-schooled my junior year and then spent all of my senior year playing catch-up.
Aiden Young
The Lord of the Flies The Giver And Then There Were None Romeo and Juliet All Quiet on the Western Front Things Fall Apart To Kill a Mockingbird The Crucible Death of a Salsaman Beloved 1984 Brave New World Grapes of Wrath The Things They Carried I Am The Messenger (Some contemporary shitposter teenshit)
I'm probably forgetting a lot here, but this selection is what stuck with me for better or for worse. We just watched Apocalypse Now and Hamlet to "make up" for the books. Didn't actually read any essentials until I was about 21. t. American
Andrew Clark
The Great Gatsby Fahrenheit 451 Animal Farm Lord of the Flies To Kill a Mockingbird Romeo and Juliet Macbeth Hamlet Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Beowulf The Odyssey The Iliad Jane Eyre 1984 Frankenstein The Outsiders The Giver Hatchet Much Ado About Nothing De Bello Gallico
Most of our time was spent reading short stories and poetry.
Julian Sullivan
>Sophomore Year To Kill a Mockingbird various poetry
>Junior Year bits and parts of thoreau O. Henry stories bits of other various American Authors of the Gilded Age
>Senior Year Bits and parts of Canterbury Tales (read the full version in high school) Bits of Beowulf (I have read the full version) How Then We Should Live? Bible Pick your british author, and in my case I went with Lord of the Flies
>College To Kill a Mockingbird
It was in College that I took up the idea of self-teachings, and reading books for your own self as opposed to going to college to learn literature.
Jace Williams
meh your country doesn't really matter bro, it's just the specific high school you went to. you can get an insane education by going to hunter high school or some prep school in new york or w/e, or you can go to some shitty school in arizona like me and learn nothing.
i literally read no books during high school and just read spark notes and wrote nice sounding essays devoid of any actual content on books i didn't read and did fine..it just depends on your school, i think.. even then, if i chose to read the few assigned readings all there would have been was romeo and juliet, fahrenheit 451, the jungle, and some other shitty contemporary novels..
Jacob Taylor
Canadian here
In my four years of Highschool we read >Romeo and Juliet (The Comic) >Hamlet (The comic) >The Outsiders >Of Mice and Men >MacBeth (The Comic/movie) >Native novels since English Canadian books are too complicated and French Canadian books are in french
These aren't the teachers, this is the board. If only you'd hear what the teachers say about the board behind closed doors, none the less in front of their students.
Carson Evans
i never made it through high school. i spent my time doing drugs and getting pussy and dropped out at 16 and got my GED and now make six figures. i spend my time reading now because i enjoy it.
Dominic Campbell
cool
Camden Murphy
>Mexico Absolutely nothing, almost no one reads here. I started reading by myself in the last 2 years of uni.
Noah Gonzalez
Of Mice And Men An Inspector Calls Blood Brothers Romeo and Juliet 27 Romantic poems (incl Shakespeare, Duffy, etc) The Graveyard Book
Christian Bell
user, did you go to my school?
Levi Miller
>was in advanced/ap/honor english all through school >all we read was >To Kill a Mockingbird >some whiny holocaust book by elie wiesel, forget the name >Parts of Romeo and Juliet in old english, retards had too much trouble understanding the old english so we never finished it >The Great Gatsby >Wuthering Heights (this book was probably one of the mots boring things I've ever read, 0/10) >The Scarlet Letter >The Grapes of Wrath
man
pretty depressing
Jason Turner
I remember reading:
Crime and Punishment Idiot Catch 22 A World According to Garp 1984 Unbearable Lightness of Being Laughable Loves Good Soldier Schweik War with Newts Lord of the Flies Catcher in the Rye One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest The Decameron All Silent on the Western Front The Stranger The Metamorphosis Some Shakespeare The Cremator
And many more, these are just the ones that I can recall at the moment. I'm Czech btw.
Aiden Foster
...
Angel Russell
>the only book I read during my time at high school was Of Mice and Men cause it was compulsory
YOU WILL NEVER BE A WRITER THEN. FUCK OFF.
Brayden Jackson
I'm English too but we read a lot more than you. Although I went to a state girls school (in Surrey though so we had lots of funding.)
Shakespeare - Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, The Tempest, Midsummer Night Dream, Merchant of Venice
Beowulf Great Expectations To kill a Mockingbird The Bloody Chamber Frankenstein Keats, Byron & Hardy poems Some Plato & Aristotle in ethics class Handmaid's Tale A couple Arthur Miller plays Ways of Seeing (for Art GCSE) Dr Faustus - Marlowe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time Genesis An Inspector Calls Of Mice and Men
That's all I can remember off the top of my head. You went to a crap school, OP
Joshua Green
Oh damn - we also studied Great Gatsby & 1984 & Animal Farm as well. For A level I believe?
Hunter Richardson
>Shakespeare I will never understand why the fuck do they impose Shakespeare or Cervantes on kids. Its pathetic. They cannot understand. And if they did it would depress them. Also, forcing them to read such books makes them hate them -they wont be able to enjoy them when they grow up and become capable of understanding them because they have 'already read them'. Fuck.
Alexander Murphy
>Irish >"Middle School" (which we call the Junior Cert) Romeo & Juliet / Merchant of Venice The Hobbit To Kill a Mocking Bird various poems >"High School" (leaving cert) Othello Philadelphia, Here I Come Curious Incident... Animal Farm Of Mice & Men Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Dubliners Catcher in the Rye Derek Mahon Phillip Larkin John Donne Adrienne Rich Various short stories
I had also read Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Frankenstein, Lord of the Rings, Pride & Prejudice, Anne of Green Gables (mother was a feminist) & Dracula for school reports, and had tried Ulysses and Moby Dick
Luis Peterson
Only from what I remember, I read: Cloudstreet (Australian Fantasy novel disguised as just a drama), To Kill a Mockingbird, and 1984.
Xavier Roberts
Most of that is the pretty standard curriculum in Germany, except perhaps Agnes
Xavier Cook
We had like thirty or so books per year (four years of high school) and we had to read at least half of them every year. First year was the writers from the Antiquity, you know, Homer, Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschlyus etc. Second year was medieval literature. Third year was up to 19th century and fourth year was 19th and 20th century literature.
What the hell is wrong with education in your countries? You read like five books through the entire high school? What did you even do in school? How many classes per week did you have?
Are these threads serious or is this just one big meme to bait us gullible third worlders, like that whole penis inspection thing?
Jason Miller
>Are these threads serious Yes. Thirty or so books per year is awesome, I didnt even have 5 per year. Crap education.
Asher Morris
I only really started to 'get' Shakespeare when I was around 16 or so. It was around that time I saw Titus andronicus at the globe theatre (mid 2000s I think?) It was then I realised just how fun Shakespeare could be.
Anyway - I somewhat agree with you. I'm a teaching assistant at a secondary school and around 80% of the kids I help have no fucking clue what's going on in Macbeth. But the other 20% (not necessarily gifted or smart kids - some speak English as AFL) really get it and enjoy it.
But then you've got a book like Of Mice and Men and around 90% of the kids get it and enjoy it.
Anyway doesn't matter. Kids are dumb as shit.
Nathaniel Gutierrez
What country are you from? That spec sounds amazing.
Luis Bailey
>What books should we put on the syllabus?
>A handful of native language works that exhibit the core values of our culture and can be studied in-depth, or
>Twenty different books in translation from different cultural traditions and historical periods that students have no understanding of
Nolan Howard
Another germ man here
Maria Stuart, Schiller Faust, Goethe Various romantic poems, mostly Eichendorff Woyzeck, Büchner Bahnwärter Thiel, Hauptmann The Metamorphosis, The Trial and a lot of short stories by Kafka Confessions of Felix Krull and essays regarding Nietzsche by Thomas Mann The Good Person of Szechwan, Brecht
Jonathan Robinson
I guess our Latin curriculum might also be interesting:
Commentaries of the Corn War by Cornius J. Cornar Metamorphoses, Ovid (excerpts) In Verrem; Catilinarian Orations; Tusculanae disputationes; De re publica; De natura deorum Cicero Epistulae morales ad Lucilium; De tranquilitate animi, Seneca Satyricon, Petronius Satires; Epistles; Ars poetica, Horace Ab urbe condita, Livius Aeneid, Vergil (excerpts)
Adrian Robinson
>Death of a Salsaman Was this deliberate?
Dylan Morgan
>Didn't actually read any essentials until I was about 21 A fair few of the books you listed are 'essential', assuming you believe that literature can be essential of course.
Michael Martinez
My junior year we literally read fault in our stars and divergent. Nevada is 48th in education and maybe 2 of my teachers in my entire high school gave a fuck.
Xavier Collins
>We had like thirty or so books per year (four years of high school) and we had to read at least half of them every year Sounds good, but i don't really see how this works. If everybody was reading different books, how did you actually discuss them in class or write essays on them?
>How many classes per week did you have? Good question. IIRC I had about two hours a week up to age 16, and then about four between 17 and 18 (because I chose to do A-level English Lit)
Elijah Lopez
One more German.
Frish; Homo Faber, Andorra Goethe; Wahlverwandschaften(!) Büchner; Woyzeck Schiller; Kabale und Liebe Hauptmann; Bahnwärter Thiel Sophokles; Antigone Rhue; Give a Boy a Gun
And in English class, Fahrenheit 451 and Catcher in the Rye.
Might have forgotten one or two from the very early years.
Angel Gonzalez
>some whiny holocaust book
Christ man, the guy survived through the holocaust and escaped from a concentration camp. Id say the guy has a little right to complain.
Easton Wright
Only thing i remember that i read and it was good was Kafka´s Metamorphosis, the first chapter of 100 Years of Solitude, and one book by Vargas Llosa. My school sucked in Literature.
Ian Clark
In my high school we had a months-long unit where we watched and analysed the film 500 Days of Summer. The only books I ever remember reading were Of Mice & Men and An Inspector Calls.
We literally read more books in primary school. In college I had to read The Road as a prerequisite for an English lit course but I never actually took the course so I don't know what else we would have read.
Tyler Wright
Sweden here, I read: The Metamorphosis. Of Mice and Men(why did everyone have to read this?) Excerpts from Shakespeare and Homer.
Lincoln James
I remember one of the things we had to read was Ayn Rand's Anthem which of course is terrible. Later I found out this teacher was a big Harry Potter fan so yeah.
Bentley Taylor
>tfw spics read borges and unamuno for high school
Henry Stewart
bare in mind i only did english lit up to gcse
from what i remember: animal farm of mice and men to kill a mockingbid a stranger calls macbeth romeo & juliet great expectations mark's gospel a couple of books from the aeneid cicero's cataline orations tacitus' annals - the bit about nero various ovid poems caesar's gallic wars
it feels like we could have done lots more books. i think the issue becomes you spend so fucking long analysing each one that it sorts of puts you out of any enjoyment of the thing. i think it might have been more effective if you had to read a book - write something on it and then move on.
the latin was mostly extracts, as we spent a lot of time translating
Aiden Sanchez
Ireland
Can't really remember at primary school but not much. Several historical fiction novels in Irish history all done by the same publisher.
Secondary school - Junior Cycle >Of Mice and Men >Strumpet City by Plunkett >Romeo and Juliet
Secondary School - Senior Cycle >Sive by John B Keane >Never Let Me Go >Macbeth
Also analysed the film Casablanca as a text. And read an Irish play "An Triail" as Gaeilge for my Irish class
So fairly fucking shite
Angel Rivera
Forgot my classics class which was one of a selection of subjects to choose from but probably did the most actual reading in it: >The Odyssey >The Aenaid >Arrian and Plutarch's seperate accounts of the life of Alexander to compare >Oedipus >Medea >Prometheus Bound
desu was probably my favourite class I'm an idiot for not keeping it on or something similar in college
Joseph Ross
you probably went to a shit school.
I think I did the same gcse English course as you, but we had to read all of the play, then reread the scenes with Lord Capulet then all the scenes with Mercutio and once we'd written our essays on R+J then we got to watch the movie at the end of the year.
Your teacher either thought your class was too stupid to read it or they were lazy and didn't want to teach properly.
Chase Rivera
your classics class sounds better than mine for literature.
First year we read the Odyssey and studied the rise of Athenian democracy. We looked at Aristophanes' play The Wasps for this.
Second year we read The Aeneid and studied the political rise of Augustus. We used a lot more sources for this so we looked at Res Gestae Divi August, Suetonis etc
Ryder Richardson
Are you talking to me?
Of course i the read whole play lmao, it isnt long
Jaxson Lewis
German here >Wilhelm Tell by Schiller >The Robbers (?) by Schiller >Faust by Goethe >Homo faber by Frisch >Agnes by Stamm >Danton's Death by Büchner >Perfume by Süskind >Die Judenbuche by Droste-Hülshoff >Kleider machen Leute by Keller
and some shitty English books
Michael Myers
You didn't really have to read a lot of the literature like I never read the Arrian and Plutarch books cover to cover because so much was summarised for us
Brayden Thomas
what did you think of a fine balance?
Ethan Reed
Gymnasiums four year businesses alternative. You're given a book to read, then you get a written test about it. I believe we are supposed to read more, but we often neglect written and verbal communication, so all in all there isn't a huge improvement. Out of what we read, most is rushed through, often not well explained, so few things stick with you, and you really have little pleasure reading. Anyway, from what I remember on foreign work:
Some collection of Greek legends, that's all that I remember about it, can't even remember how I did on it Madame Bovary - read, missed all the subtle details, hated it then, now it's one of my favourites Hamlet - read in two days before deadline, didn't understand a thing, almost failed the test Song of Songs from Bible - truly fond memories of this one, well explained by the professor, I believed it wasn't on the required list, but she wanted us to experience a thing out of the Bible. She had to personally ask us whether we want to read it. Secularism and commie leftovers are strong here. Metamorphosis - read, loved it, and found it weird that it was loved also by everyone Crime and Punishment - read, mixed feelings about it, different professor of doubtful persuasion, explained it as anti religious work Oedipus Rex - didn't read, cheated myself thorough The Stranger (Camus) - read, hated it so much I haven't returned to it ever since
And then the local, doubt anyone knows them, but some are good, some are bad. Most include harsh religious pro and against strife that is everpresent here: Tavčar - Visoška Kronika Cankar - short stories Prešeren - Krst pri Savici Miličinski - Butalci Voranc - Solzice
Angel Cruz
Holly fuck, I haven't laughed that hard for ages.
>Waiting for Godot Yeah, forgot that one. One of the worst experiences ever.
Samuel Perry
Why is nobody mentioning a single work from Hemingway? Is he truly shit?
Asher Gomez
And know I bump cause my stack be Veeky Forums approved.
Jordan Nguyen
I only had to read spanish books. Amadis de Gaula, Cronica de una muerte anunciada, Lazarillo de Tormes, Niebla, the list goes on.
Aaron Hughes
the only decent reading experiences I had in high school (USA) were in a vague elective class called "great books" when I was a junior. the teacher just gave us a trial by fire of Dubliners/Portrait/Ulysses in a semester. the library copies of Ulysses hadn't been checked out since like the 50's.
Adam Hernandez
I am jealous of your list.
>Elementary School
The Giver The Pearl Of Mice and Men
>Middle-School/Jr. High
Nothing. I can't remember having to read anything other than some textbook full of random stories from the NCLB act (EG, learn whats going to be on the test) This is about the same time I stopped giving a fuck about school
>High School The Catcher in the Rye Romeo and Juliet (We didn't even read it, we just watched the shitty ass movie)
Around sophmore year I stopped going to school. They forced me to go even though I had a 0 GPA. Sent me to an Alternative Ed school. There I read and made bookreports for credits as well as self-taught mathematics and literature
Things I read and reported on:
Moby Dick Brave New World I, Robot Dune 1984 All Quiet on the Western Front The Foundation Hamlet
Each was worth .5 credits and I needed 4, so that is about where I stopped. American education is fucking banal, torrid, and pointless. You're better off being an auto-didact with how the education system works.
Ayden Gray
Just guessing you're around like 18-20 and from BW?
Nathaniel Myers
>private school
We read a book every other week. Along with required summer reading. Id guess nearly 100 books were required. Most of them were excellent books, well selected over a good range time, genre and format as well.