My freshman has read animal farm, romeo and juliet and now jurassic park. Hates them all.

6:14 and this was a combo of local private schools and FCPS.

Yes, my kids both did. One graduated and one is in HS. I also wish they would update the curriculum or make these a choice. They seem to dislike them as much as I did in HS.

What sort of school, OP?

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Anonymous wrote:My junior is reading Hamlet and is bored out of her mind. I really wish the curriculum was better/more interesting.

Because she already read Hamlet? Or are you criticizing WS?

Love Hamlet, as well as the related Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

Read both in AP English years ago. I know my DD’s school teaches both, and I’m glad she’ll get the chance to read them.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, and I love it. Lord of the Flies and Gatsby coming soon.

and this is HS? We read that in MS.

I have a sophomore in honors and a senior in AP. Both have read about 5 classics and one newer book. In a public school in the south this year. We moved here from the east coast where they were in a private school and the readings were similar.

Mine is reading Beloved right now. Hamlet previously.

Yes, and I love it. Lord of the Flies and Gatsby coming soon.

Anonymous wrote:My junior is reading Hamlet and is bored out of her mind. I really wish the curriculum was better/more interesting.

Because she already read Hamlet? Or are you criticizing WS?

Anonymous wrote:Ones we’ve heard of and read? Ones that are more than 10-20 years old?

I don’t think my all-honors senior has read more than a couple books I’ve heard of, and even those were ones she chose from a school list, not books assigned to the whole class.

What are the names of the books? It’s a mixture of old and new at our schools.

My junior is reading Hamlet and is bored out of her mind. I really wish the curriculum was better/more interesting.

Sophomore has so far read only one complete work, Macbeth. They're working on Frankenstein now, and that will be the second complete work. However, they have read a Meditation from John Donne, a tale from Canterbury Tales, excerpts from the Rubaiyat, and some of the books from Paradise Lost, so there has been a lot of reading.

Yeah, they barely read books at all anymore unless they do it out of personal interest.

Ones we’ve heard of and read? Ones that are more than 10-20 years old?

I don’t think my all-honors senior has read more than a couple books I’ve heard of, and even those were ones she chose from a school list, not books assigned to the whole class.