forum Books You Read For School

Started February 09, 2019 by @evastardust groupRRAAAARRL

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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.

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.

We did a 'lottery' and the 'winner' was the class jock, so we made him sing Let It Go in front of everyone.
It was beautiful.

I used to do that to annoy my xgf. (Back when it was just kids flirting.) Those were the days. That song has a special place in my heart.

If it wasn't so overplayed, I would genuinely love Let It Go. A power ballad about accepting yourself and your strengths and flaws and being unashamed of who you are, all sung by Idina Menzel? Heck yeah!!

Her voice was weird. Like cream and honey dripping out of a bottle.

Anyone else understand that?

Yeah, sort of thick and rich? I tend to like more unique voices, like Gelsey Bell and Brittain Ashford.

Definitely thick in a way. But I don't know about rich. But that's probably because rich is normally used to describe deeper voices.

The first four are TERRIBLE:
'Boy Overboard' by Morris Gleitzman
'Shorts' Short story anthology (We read 'Bright Lights', 'Xenophobia', and the one about the Romanov descendant)
'Nips XI' by Ruth Stark
'Zac and Mia' by A.J.Betts
'The Hobbit' by J R R Tolkien (Was a pick your own book thing)
'Animal Farm' by George Orwell
'The Secret Garden' by Frances Hodgson Burnett
'The Book Thief' by Markus Zusak
'Holes' by Lois Sachar
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' by William Shakespeare

These are some I read when I started homeschooling:
'The Handmaid's Tale' by Margret Atwood
'Romeo and Juliet' by William Shakespeare
'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt
'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare
'House of Leaves' by Mark Z Danielewski

I'm sure there were more but those are the ones I remember.

Mmmmmmmmm I love Hamlet and Midsummer!!!

Since I already mentioned the ones I liked, here's all the novel studies that I didn't like:

• The Giver (as mentioned previously, I had to read this three times)
• Hatchet (Had to read this one twice)
• Invitation to the Game (which sucked on it's own, but to add insult to injury we were supposed to read The Outsiders, but the other class took too long so we got stuck with this).
• In the Heat of the Night (How do you make a book about a murder boring?)
• Of Mice and Men (Depressing and boring).
• Hiroshima (I feel like I might not have hated this as much as I did if I wasn't reading it for novel study, and if we didn't have dumb ass assignments where we had to write a paragraph about symbolism IN A NONFICTION BOOK)
• Lord of the Flies (Weird AF and hard to follow at parts, but if there was one highlight to reading this it was the entire class just saying "sucks to your ass-mar" at any minor inconvenience).
• All Quiet on the Western Front (I don't remember anything about this book, only that I hated it. DNF'ed).
• Jane Eyre (Ok, so funny story. I got read this instead of All Quiet on the Western Front because I complained too loudly and didn't realize my teacher was within earshot. He overheard and was like "Oh well you can read Jane Eyre if you want." And I was like "Yes please God I would literally rather read a poorly written Twilight fanfiction than All Quiet. Turns out though that classic literature isn't for me, and too this day I don't know if Jane Eyre was necessarily the better option)

I feel like I'm missing a couple, but if I am it's probably just because they boring and unmemorable anyways.