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 Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 7:07 pm
The Outsiders (7th Grade)
Esperanza Rising (6th Grade)
They are great books.
I liked The Outsiders.
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 7:19 pm
I really enjoyed City of the Beasts. i read it i think three weeks before we actually had it assigned. sweatdrop
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Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 8:40 pm
Oh geez, I have had to read so many books for school. My favorites though are:
Count of Monte Cristo
Lesson Before Dying
Joy Luck Club
Wuthering Heights
and
Pride and Prejudice
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Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 4:02 pm
Nightgina Isle of the Blue Dolphine (forget author but I finished that book a couple months ealier than the rest of the class mrgreen ) The Giver (I don''t really memorize the author... stare )
I loved isle of the Blue Dolphins!
The odesey is pretty good too!
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Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 4:05 pm
Blade-Bearer Ian ehh...can't think of any books that were mandatory to read that I actually enjoyed. To Kill a Mockingbird was okay, I guess... I didn't like To Kill A Mockinbird to much...But thats probably because when I had to read to read that book, the rest of the books my teacher made me read was also about people discriminating against african americans...
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Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 10:24 am
Do i only have to pick two?
Hard Choice....
Ummm!...
- The Mighty: By Rodman Philbrick heart (loved it!)
- Hamlet: By William Shakepeare heart (yey! Shakespeare!)
those would probably be my two favourites, but every mandatory book i have had to read in school, i have enjoyed, except "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens
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Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 10:52 am
I don't think there are ANY good books in school curiculums now adays. The only books I really, honestly enjoyed were To Kill a Mocking Bird and Beowulf. My teachers seemed decidedly against Shakespeare whenever I got to their class, only to have it the next year. Oh, and I kinda enjoyed A Day No Pigs Would Die, but it, like so many other books you are required to read, was depressing. Whoever the Hell decided Lord of the Flies was appropriate for depressed teenagers to read was either sick in the head or wanted to increase the suicide rate.
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Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 2:10 pm
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (8th grade)
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherina Paterson (5th grade)
Half my class didn't even finish To Kill a Mockingbird but I actually liked it and finished it atleast two weeks before my class did. I liked Bridge to Terabithia too but it was sad and I am going to beat someone with a blunt object if they screw up the movie.
I had to read Animal Farm this year too and I kinda liked it. It was just almost unbearably annoying to read because we read the whole thing in class outloud and my class is all idiots and had trouble pronouncing cowshed, so I'm sure you can imagine how much trouble they had with other words. I was almost always a chapter ahead of them unless I decided I would let them catch up and I draw during the time we were reading. Even with that I still finished two chapters ahead of them.
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Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 7:02 pm
i can't think of any right now (except one i don't remember the name of crying )
but lots of short stories i've loved: "The Scarlette Ibis" is one of my favorites mrgreen but it's sad sad
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Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:31 am
AmeliaBelia i can't think of any right now (except one i don't remember the name of crying ) but lots of short stories i've loved: "The Scarlette Ibis" is one of my favorites mrgreen but it's sad sad I loved the story also, but it always slightly freaks me out. When I was little I had health problems, not as bad as Doodle's in the story though, my grandmother called me Doodlebug, and I believe my sister was similar to the older brother in the story. Argh! It's been ages since I've read it so I can't remember much.
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 8:50 pm
Oooh!
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (12th grade)
&
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (I read in like 7th grade.. and read it again for 9th grade... and then it was required for 10th grade or something)
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Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 2:05 pm
Like a bunch of other people that have posted, I did actually like To Kill a Mockingbird, which my class just finished reading a month or so ago (11th grade).
Let's see...in 9th grade, my teacher made us read this book about a 'Utopian' society where no one was allowed to say "I" (and everyone had names from passages in the Bible, followed by four numbers), and had to refer to everything in plurals...I really liked that book, but no one seems to be able to remember the title...
And, of course The Giver, by Lois Lowry (9th). I also remember a book from 10th grade, Pudd'nhead Wilson.
There may be others, but I don't tend to remember most of the books that I have to read for school, mostly due to the fact that a lot of them are Shakespeare, and I dislike Shakespeare.
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Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 7:31 pm
Lord of the Flies
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Oedipus Rex
The Great Gatsby
To Kill a Mockingbird
Nectar in a Sieve
I probably would never have read any of these on my own so I'm really greatful for the English teachers who introduced them to me.
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Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 5:35 pm
Paradise by Toni Morrison
Anthem by Ayn Rand
I liked most of the books we read for school though.
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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 3:34 am
There were two that i particularly enjoyed, and both were in grade 12 advanced english, which was taught by a very... unconventional teacher, i guess.
One was "Starship Troopers" By Robert Heinlein. Excellent, excellent book.
The other was a graphic novel, Marvel 1602, I don't quite remember why I read this one for class, but I had to write a paper on adaptation. This followed a 20 page paper i wrote on adaptation about Starship troopers, and he enjoyed my thoughts on adapting stories and characters, that he got me to read Marvel 1602, just to see what i thought (i am an avid comic book reader)
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