what do you remember????? Please ???????

amother ↓

Tue, Apr 01 2008, 7:58 pm

I am teaching high school and I'm trying to put together my curriculum for next year- anyone here remember a good book they read in ninth grade?
I'll be doing the Pearl- any other suggestions- novel wise?

I can order whichever books I like... * classics

↑ amother ↓

Tue, Apr 01 2008, 8:02 pm

In 9th grade we read:

The Lord of the Flies
Pride and Prejudice
The Old Man and the Sea
Great Expectations

Anon so as not to reveal my hs.

Clarissa ↓

Tue, Apr 01 2008, 8:11 pm

Some from around that time (or a little earlier, can't remember for sure) were:

Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut (and some others by him)
A Moveable Feast by Hemingway
The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald
Native Son by Wright
Lord of the Flies by Golding
Main Street by Lewis
Black Like Me by Griffin (non-fiction)

Not classics, but I also remember liking all those books by Paul Zindel and S.E. Hinton, but I can't remember exactly how old I was.

ruthanne

Tue, Apr 01 2008, 8:17 pm

amother wrote:

In 9th grade we read:

The Lord of the Flies
Pride and Prejudice
The Old Man and the Sea
Great Expectations

Anon so as not to reveal my hs.

sounds like an english high school. am I correct?

morahaviva

Tue, Apr 01 2008, 8:23 pm

ruthanne wrote:

amother wrote:

In 9th grade we read:

The Lord of the Flies
Pride and Prejudice
The Old Man and the Sea
Great Expectations

Anon so as not to reveal my hs.

sounds like an english high school. am I correct?

I think we read all of the above in my US HS - plus the one about the dogs and the snow... anyone remember the name of it??? My son is in 9th now and is reading MAcbeth -

Motek ↓

Tue, Apr 01 2008, 8:42 pm

amother wrote:

We read the Pearl in 7th grade.

The Yearling was 9th. Wasn't fond of it.

↑ chaylizi ↓

Tue, Apr 01 2008, 8:46 pm

ha motek in 7th grade we read Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry. I would've loved to read The Pearl

↑ chaylizi ↓

Tue, Apr 01 2008, 8:49 pm

clarissa- did you like Lord of The Flies? We had to watch the movie in sociology in college & I and the other frum girl in my class took turns excusing ourselves from the classroom b/c the visuals were quite graphic & almost literally made us ill.

redhot

Tue, Apr 01 2008, 9:13 pm

we read Macbeth, julius caesar, Lord of the Flies, and I think Pride and Prejudice

dont remember any more

↑ Clarissa ↓

Tue, Apr 01 2008, 9:14 pm

Lord of the Flies really upset me. It was worth reading, but it was disturbing. I think it was something we read around the same time as Animal Farm, to learn about society.

I remember my friends and I all reading The Bell Jar and Lisa Bright and Dark, two stories about descending into mental illness. Being dramatic teenaged girls, we liked books about dramatic young women.

I'd forgotten Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar.

Some of the books I've mentioned (the Hinton, Zindel, and the ones mentioned above) might be considered out-of-date for today's teens. I'm old and out-of-date myself.

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Mimisinger

Tue, Apr 01 2008, 9:15 pm

We read fences and romeo and the odysse (sp.?) and the iliad and I believe romeo and juliet. Hmm, that was SO LONG AGO!

↑ chaylizi ↓

Tue, Apr 01 2008, 9:17 pm

we weren't allowed to read romeo & juliet in my school. but macbeth was 10th grade & hamlet was 12th. They used to read Taming of the Shrew (I think) in 11th but it got banned. We read animal farm in 11th grade, as well as Jerusalem Tales & a separate peace. my school bans new books every year- it's quite comical actually

↑ Clarissa ↓

Tue, Apr 01 2008, 9:20 pm

A Separate Peace! I'd forgotten that, and was trying to remember. I loved that one, I still remember the dramatic clim@x so well, and I read it more than three decades ago.

Why was Taming of the Shrew banned?

If books had been banned at my school, it would have sold out in every local bookstore in about ten minutes. Nothing would have charged us up more than a book banning.

↑ chaylizi ↓

Tue, Apr 01 2008, 9:21 pm

also the out of date thing- usually the books we read in school weren't exactly written yesterday. & the ones that are written more recently- like oh Goodbye, Mr Chips or other beauties like that aren't even worth reading. Nevermind that Goodbye Mr Chips was written in 1969- but that's still recent vintage compared to what most of us read.

↑ Clarissa ↓

Tue, Apr 01 2008, 9:23 pm

Almost forgot. The Sound and the Fury, by Faulkner.

I should stop adding new posts, and instead add to this one if more occur to me. My post count is embarrassing enough.

↑ chaylizi

Tue, Apr 01 2008, 9:28 pm

yeah there were a lot of upset parents. they ban books all the time it's a political thing- there are 3 schools in my city- many people can't find a school that suits them. The main BY tries to cater to the frummer crowd b/c another school opened up for the more "heimishe" people & BY got insulted. Oh & they didn't want to lose students either. The other school is a Bnei Akiva type & most unhappy people weren't unhappy enough to send their kids there- so they just bombarded the administration with complaints of just this sort. & oops sorry it was a merchant in venice & it was b/c of shylock or something. whatever. basically our literary level in our school wasn't too high-only 4 of us from my class attempted AP English.