forum Books You Read For School

Started February 09, 2019 by @GoodThingGoing group

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I remember that freshmen had to read the giver, but because I was in advanced or whatever, I…. Didn't read that.

I read The Giver 3 times. Once on my own, twice for novel studies. And I hated it all 3 times.

I didn't hate The Giver but I didn't like it either. And the ending was just eh

What is it even about?
I don't even know…..

I read A Single Shard once. It was pretty good.
Also, Hunger Games is school??? I mean I liked it, but it's hardly Great Literature.

I've never heard Hunger Games in my school.
Like… It was good like 5-6 years ago, but still? I don't know if it has a lasting impression like some other books do.

I think it is, it's one of the best books I've ever read.

I've never read them so I have no idea.

Ahh so I have been severely scarred by a lot of things we read in English
Like last year we read Lord of the Flies and it's not terrifying or anything but I would read it at night and have nightmares so I don't eat pig anymore…
And I read The Testing in sixth grade and I kinda just blocked a lot of it out. I found it in my room last month and reread it. The only thing I remembered was the end and I wish I hadn't read it in sixth grade.
Almost all of the short stories we read scarred me too but there's a lot of those.
Also my sister got the choice of an all girls language arts class and she's taking it and they did a dystopian unit and they got to read Red Queen and I am so jealous I wish we could've read it for school.

I love Red Queen!!!
I just finished Macbeth for my English class!

Speaking of scarring, I had a friend who had to read 1984. Good book, but surprisingly full of sex.

Night- Elie Wiesel
All Quiet on the Western Front- Erich Maria Remarque
The Things They Carried- Tim O'Brien
Maus- Art Spiegelman
As I Lay Dying- William Faulkner
Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad
Of Mice and Men- John Steinbeck
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass- Lewis Carroll
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar- Shakespeare
Their Eyes Were Watching God- Zora Neale Hurston
To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee
Romeo and Juliet- Shakespeare
and the list goes on…

We're reading The Catcher in the Rye and lemme tell you, I relate to Holden so much but I also really want to slap him, so I'm left wondering if that's what it's like for other people when they talk to me

We're reading The Catcher in the Rye and lemme tell you, I relate to Holden so much but I also really want to slap him, so I'm left wondering if that's what it's like for other people when they talk to me

Literally me but with Victor Frankenstein and Hamlet.

The Giver
Seedfolks
Wonder
Killing Mr. Griffin
The Outsiders
Touching Spirit Bear
Fahrenheit 451
I think that's it? Probably not, but I'm a huge reader and can't remember the names of everything sooo…

M*cbeth is really good too!!!

Oh yeah, Holes as well

The Giver
Seedfolks
Wonder
Killing Mr. Griffin
The Outsiders
Touching Spirit Bear
Fahrenheit 451
I think that's it? Probably not, but I'm a huge reader and can't remember the names of everything sooo…

!!!! I READ SEEDFOLKS TOO!!!!!!!!
That's a really underrated book!
My town did some passing-around-the-book thing where a lot of people got to read it and my class did for school!

My school is doing a 'book club' thing for the grade below me where they have books to choose from for each genre that they can read.

Did anyone have to read The Lottery?
I did.
In 7th grade.

Is that the one where they draw names every year to stone someone to death? Because I read that one in grade 8, I think? If not, then no, I probably didn't read it.

Yep that's the one.

I've had friends that did but I didn't

Do you know the one where everyone is "equal"? The one with the masks of beautiful people and hobbling dancers?

Did anyone have to read The Lottery?
I did.
In 7th grade.

I did! I read it in 7th grade and then again in 11th grade. The second time, we held our own "lottery" and threw wads of paper at the "winner." I accidentally hit them in the face because I'm a bad shot.