starsmtsu12's "asked to read for school at whatever age"
From dim memories to parchments stolen from a burning building(s), I have put together this very comprehensive list of books that I was asked to read, be it grade school to high school and several years in college.
Textbooks will be omitted; poems will not be counted either. Whatsmore, if we read a snipet of something, that’s also out of bounds. I have included one or two movies that we watched in high school that were treated as literature—you get it.
I haven’t read several of these although I might have purchased them at one point.
I am interested in the selection of books that people, especially in high school english classes, are assigned to read, so PLEASE feel free to share your own experience.
For instance, my 6th grade reading teacher added a few novels into her lesson plan and borrowed from our textbook. My 7th grade teacher, to contrast, did nothing of the sort—and it was rumored that she couldn’t tell the difference between numbers and letters anyway. (legend has it that she gave one kid an A on his MATH folder, which he handed in by mistake . . . )
High school English classes were almost perfectly thematic:
Freshman year was for grammar, after which grammar was never again practiced.
Sophomore year was an assortment, based on teacher’s discretion, I would think. My teacher seemed to live in a world ruled by mechanics—she taught us how to look for conventions in poems but not read them. She class had no text but was based in novels. I suppose she was comfortable with her station, didn’t want to challenge anyone with anything other than a vocabulary test; she retired upon the end of the semester.
Junior and Senior year classes were trained on American and British Lit respectively.
In college I majored in English (just plain English), and I also took a lot of history classes. I sought the "hardest" teachers and performed for them when I felt up to it, for I took ill in my fifth semester. Later I signed up for a lot of classes that I never finished, but I still have those syllabi and quite a few texts that I bought and never opened.
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