What is your high school student's assigned reading?

[Anonymous]

I'm just curious to see what the various schools have the kids read these days. Please share your child's grade/level and the assigned reading list.

[Anonymous]

9th grade Honors English FCPS:
The Odyssey (Emily Wilson translation)
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck
Romeo and Juliet

[Anonymous]

12th grade AP lit

Antigone
Frankenstein
Hamlet
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choices from
Purple Hibiscus
There, There
The Kite Runner
The Bonesetter's Daughter
The Brief, Wondrous life of Oscar Wao
Nickel Boys

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anything else they wish to read and refer to

[Anonymous]

11th grade AP Language: Outliers

[Anonymous]

9th grade, CA
so far it’s short fiction and nothing I like: Fish Cheeks, Super Human, Why I learned to cook.

They will be reading similar stuff I am afraid like Dante and Aristotle Discover the World, Bus 57 etc. Nothing I know and like.
The only classic is Romeo and Juliet

[Anonymous]

11th grade IB English--Crime and Punishment, not sure what's next.

[Anonymous]

8th grade, first up is Raisin in the Sun

[Anonymous]

11th grade:

Invisible Man
Hamlet
Leaves of Grass
Tender Buttons
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Antigone
Oedipus Rex
Topdog/Underdog
Citizen: An American Lyric

[Anonymous]

10th
The Crucible
Passing
Black Like Me
The Great Gatsby
Othello
American Indian Stories
The Port Chicago 50

Last year he read
Animal Farm
Speak
Whalefall
Syllabus
Much ado about nothing
Poet X

[Anonymous]

9th Grade
Antigone
Fences
Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby
Things Fall Apart

[Anonymous]

Lots of Gatsby. It's on the AP lit curriculum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:9th grade, CA
so far it’s short fiction and nothing I like: Fish Cheeks, Super Human, Why I learned to cook.

They will be reading similar stuff I am afraid like Dante and Aristotle Discover the World, Bus 57 etc. Nothing I know and like.
The only classic is Romeo and Juliet

How can you not like Fish Cheeks? It’s like the perfect short story. Incredibly layered while being deceptively simple.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:9th grade, CA
so far it’s short fiction and nothing I like: Fish Cheeks, Super Human, Why I learned to cook.

They will be reading similar stuff I am afraid like Dante and Aristotle Discover the World, Bus 57 etc. Nothing I know and like.
The only classic is Romeo and Juliet

How can you not like Fish Cheeks? It’s like the perfect short story. Incredibly layered while being deceptively simple.

You don't use realtor speak to describe books.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:9th grade, CA
so far it’s short fiction and nothing I like: Fish Cheeks, Super Human, Why I learned to cook.

They will be reading similar stuff I am afraid like Dante and Aristotle Discover the World, Bus 57 etc. Nothing I know and like.
The only classic is Romeo and Juliet

How can you not like Fish Cheeks? It’s like the perfect short story. Incredibly layered while being deceptively simple.

You don't use realtor speak to describe books.

It’s not a book, it’s a short story. And it IS deceptively simple because the vocabulary nor syntax is very high (though it does introduce new vocabulary to students) and its short (2 pages) while also having layered meaning and lots of opportunity for questions and discussion. My students relate to it deeply. You can use it to teach imagery, theme, juxtaposition. It’s a really great story in many ways while not being an arduous read. Maybe you just didn’t understand it, or have an issue with an Asian author being taught in the curriculum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:9th grade, CA
so far it’s short fiction and nothing I like: Fish Cheeks, Super Human, Why I learned to cook.

They will be reading similar stuff I am afraid like Dante and Aristotle Discover the World, Bus 57 etc. Nothing I know and like.
The only classic is Romeo and Juliet

How can you not like Fish Cheeks? It’s like the perfect short story. Incredibly layered while being deceptively simple.

You don't use realtor speak to describe books.

It’s not a book, it’s a short story. And it IS deceptively simple because the vocabulary nor syntax is very high (though it does introduce new vocabulary to students) and its short (2 pages) while also having layered meaning and lots of opportunity for questions and discussion. My students relate to it deeply. You can use it to teach imagery, theme, juxtaposition. It’s a really great story in many ways while not being an arduous read. Maybe you just didn’t understand it, or have an issue with an Asian author being taught in the curriculum.

Whoa. Way to go, totally off the deep end with your assumptions (and your inane 3rd grade critique of literature - major fail)