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Wed, 2010-11-10 19:21 — Kathleen
No, not me. Remi & Jax are taking AP English. What should they read?
I've got a big list going from some FB friends, but what about you all? What did you read in AP English (or whatever your senior year English class was)? If you were teaching an AP English class, or a survey of literature class, what would you include on the syllabus?
And, for anyone curious, books I remember from my AP English class:
The Color Purple, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Stranger, Pride & Prejudice, The Catcher in the Rye, Antigone, Bluebeard, Native Son, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Clockwork Orange
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Now that I think about it, I realize that in both of my AP English classes, we read, not wrote. I'm not really sure how I was prepared for the AP Language test...
Anyway. :) If it helps, in both of my AP classes, I read Pride & Prejudice (& watched the A&E/BBC version), Hamlet (& watched the Mel Gibson version) & R&G Are Dead, Antigone & Oedipus, A Doll's House, A Steetcar Named Desire (& watched the Brando film), All Quiet on the Western Front, Cry The Beloved Country, Great Expectations, The Great Gatsby, Kafka's Metamorphosis, The Red Badge of Courage, Siddhartha, The Sun Also Rises, The Scarlet Letter, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Things Fall Apart, Huck Finn, The Crucible, Lord of the Flies, Night, & The Odyssey.
I kept all my high school English books, so I just scanned my shelf. And, if I'm remembering rightly, 11th grade was drama & non-Anglo-American lit, and 12th grade was Anglo-American. I feel like I'm leaving so many "classics" out (like To Kill a Mockingbird & Jane Eyre & Romeo and Juliet), but we read those earlier in high school.
In 12th grade, we also had to do 2 research projects: one on a major American or British poet (I had John Donne!) and one on a book of our choice: mine was "A Wizard of Earthsea." Hope this helps. Keeping track of books and reading lists is something I love doing.
Thanks for the list! I think I'm definitely putting "Hamlet" on there-- both cause so many ppl mentioned it and b/c I've been told TTOB is "Hamlet-esque", so it's a little personal joke (yes, I'm a dork).
Looks like the only books we both read were Antigone and P&P. I read Streetcar, Gatsby, Crucible, Lord of the Flies, but those were in 10th grade, I think... Flies might have been 9th. Can't remember. Our curriculum was 10th grade American lit, 11th grade Brit lit & whichever AP class you wanted (Lang or Lit) in 12th.
I like the idea of using Earthsea... Hmmm... I need favorite books for both MCs, too, so maybe that'll be Jax's :) (Right now I have [title] as a placeholder for both!)
(Oh, & I totally keep track of books/reading, too-- used to keep notes on every book I read, but after I stopped reviewing it kinda fell off...)
Hi! According to my bestie:
Hamlet
Macbeth
Beowulf and Grendel
Cantebury Tales
The Awakening
One Hundred Years of Solitude
And then they have book projects where the students choose to read Brit lit novels like Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, etc.
Hope that helps!
Thanks! And wow, Hamlet AND Macbeth? That's kinda intense. o_O
Apparently their Brit lit is 12th grade? Mine was 11th-- we got to read "And Then There Were None" for extra credit :)
We did much of the shakespeare mentioned above (definitely Hamlet and Macbeth), as well as a lot of 19th and 20th century American Lit. Death of a Salesman, The Bluest Eye...those are the only ones I remember off the top of my head.
Most of what is listed above we did earlier in high school, although we never read Jane Austen.
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