thank you, that provided me with my “nearly sprayed the keyboard” moment today. i needed that, after other depressing stuff this morning.
oh, and “Romance Under the Elms”, MarsDragon? was that the special school-censored version of “Desire Under the Elms”?
gee, i’d forgotten things like reading parts of Canterbury Tales, and Antigone, The Lottery, and movies like West Side Story, Macbeth (Orson Wells’ version)… gosh, i can’t even name half of it anymore.
and for anyone who had to wade through stuff like The Awakening or Look Homeward, Angel… may i congratulate you on being such tough survivors as teens. i only read them recently on my own.
they immediately went into my “do not keep” book box upon completion.
Plays: Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, The Glass Menagerie, Lysistrata, Antigone, Othello, Death of a Salesman, A Doll’s House
Books/Novels: Huckleberry Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies, Heart of Darkness; Cry, the Beloved Country, Oliver Twist, Mayor of Casterbridge, The Scarlet Letter, Jane Eyre, A Tale of Two Cities, Canterbury Tales, The Great Gatsby, The Prince, A Farewell to Arms, Far From the Madding Crowd
Cannery Row
The Scarlet Letter
Huck Finn
Jane Eyre
The Oddessy
Canterbury Tales
Moby Dick
The Great Gatsby
Animal Farm
Lord of the Flies
Julius Ceasar
Romeo and Juliet
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Freshman Year - World Lit…mostly excerpts
The Upanishads (excerpts)
Chinese poetry (several poems)
Antigone
The Tempest
Several Shakespearean Sonnets
Silence
Canterbury Tales (Excerpts)
Beowulf (Exercept)
Song of Roland
Epic of Gilgamesh (Excerpt)
Sophomore
1984
Brave New World
Animal Farm
Lord of the Flies
Junior
The Great Gatsby
Various short stories and poetry
Huckleberry Finn
The Awakening
The Scarlett Letter
Senior
The Secret Sharer
Heart of Darkness
Elliot poetry (Prufrock, Hollow Men, Wasteland)
The Dead
Portrait of an Aritist as a Young Man
The Stranger
Darkness at Noon
Catch-22
Slaughterhouse V
Light in August
Fast Food Nation
Night
The Things They Carried
All Quiet on the Western Front
Unfortunately…due to changes in the way education is done in my district, there was less time for Shakespeare than most.
The usual stuff mentioned, plus I recall in my senior year in advanced lit we had to read Plato’s Republic, Dante’s Inferno (in English, thankfully) and Goethe’s Faust. I think there were others in between, but those in particular stick out in my mind.
I’m hoping Fast Food Nation was not something you read in a literature class. I’m reading it now. It has some good points about how manipulative the industry is, but much of it seems to be a typical liberal anti-business diatribe.
