Thangs I was S'posed to Have Readed in High School

Submitted by bfair91 on Mon, 02/23/2009 - 13:12
Tags: 
  • Delicious
  • Digg
  • StumbleUpon
  • Facebook
  • Google
  • Technorati
  • Hamlet
  • King Lear
  • MacBeth
  • Richard III
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • The Taming of the Shrew
  • Much Ado about Nothing
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • The Tempest
  • The Merchant of Venice
  • Misc. Shakespeare Sonnets
  • 1984
  • Animal Farm
  • The Martian Chronicles
  • Farenheit 451
  • The Rape of the Lock
  • Billy Budd
  • The Telltale Heart
  • The Raven
  • The Bells
  • Leaves of Grass (Excerpts)
  • Beowulf (1st part in Anglo-Saxon, the rest in translation)
  • The Canterbury Tales (Prologue only, in Middle English)
  • Le Petit Prince (In French)
  • The Plague (excerpts in French)
  • The Stranger (excerpts in French)
  • L'hote (In French)
  • No Exit (In French)
  • Moliere - Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (In French)
  • Moliere - Tartuffe (excerpts in French)
  • Racine - Andromache (excerpts in French)
  • Gargantua (excerpts in French)
  • Le Chanson de Roland (excerpts in French)
  • While Waiting for Godot (In French)
  • A La Recherche de Temps Perdue (excerpts in French)
  • Germinal (excerpts in French)
  • Candide (In French)
  • Wordsworth, william. "Daffodils"
  • Hamilton, Edith. Mythology.
  • The Odyssey
  • Oedipus Rex
  • The Scarlet Letter
  • Flowers for Algernon (short story, not the novel)
  • Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl
  • Lord of the Flies
  • Paradise Lost (excerpt from the beginning)
  • Steinbeck, John. The Pearl
  • Henry, O. "The Gift of the Magi"
  • Henry, O. "The Third Ingredient"
  • Warren, Robert Penn. "Court-martial"
  • The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere
  • Stephen Vincent Benet - By the Waters of Babylon
  • Bourke-White, Margaret - Portrait of Myself (excerpt)
  • Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie
  • Frost, Robert - "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
  • Frost, Robert - "The Road not Taken"
  • Sandburg, Carl, "Grass"
Author Comments: 

I am not really an uneducated slob, but sometimes I feel like one. I am trying to remember all the things I was supposed to have read in my time, and I am afraid my actual reading has come up short. My goal is to rectify that this year. Highlighting means I read it and remember the content in general.

Nance03/01/2009

All of this! This is good if our teachers in high school made us read like 4 books... (They were realist.) Do you read some of them finally?

bfair9103/01/2009

I have actually read the majority of it. Some of it we read in class, especially the poems and the plays. For some things I remember the title, but not the content. I have made it a project this year to go back and review what I remember reading in high school and college and make sure I got what I was supposed to get out of both experiences. In high school I took four years of English and four years of French, so I was bombarded with literature from two directions. I plan to reread the French literature in English, as any French I once learned has long since left me. Germinal was pretty much incomprehensible to me even when French was fresh in my mind.