I need your help!
The last 9 weeks of school for English 10 is scheduled to teach a novel. Our choices are: Lord of the Flies (yes!! Already decided!) or A Separate Peace (NO!). I asked my department chair if I could do literature circles or another novel instead of choice #2. She understood and said I could probably pull it off because I definitely do NOT need 9 weeks to teach LOTF. I'm coming up with a list of books I've read for her to go over and see if the students will read or have already read them in other classes.
So far, I have:
Ella Minnow Pea: Mark Dunn
1984: George Orwell
Animal Farm: Orwell
Brave New World: Aldous Huxley
To Kill A Mockingbird: Harper Lee
The Bell Jar: Sylvia Plath (mostly because they've read a few Plath poems already and some were really interested in this book)
Things Fall Apart: Chinua Achebe
Beloved: Toni Morrison
Poisonwood Bible: Barbara Kingsolver
The Kite Runner: Khaled Hosseini
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: Mark Haddon
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Betty Smith
Speak: Laurie Halsie Anderson
The Things They Carried: Tim O'Brien (felt like I needed some "manly" books on the list)
Nervous Conditions: Tsi Tsi Dangaremba
The Secret Life of Bees: Susan Monk Kidd
Life of Pi: Yann Martel
A Lesson Before Dying: Ernest Gaines
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Ken Kesey
Water for Elephants: Sara Gruen
I need suggestions! What are books that you think every high schooler should read? Hopefully you suggest some that I've also read, so I can put them on the list!
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
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Things Fall Apart was probably the best book I ever read in high school, so my vote goes for that one.
You did a good job, there aren't any I can think of that I could add. Though there are some I think every high schooler shoulder read, I don't think your department chair would approve :)
Haha, There are quite a few not on this list, cause there's NO WAY they'd be approved for classroom use. I just put those ones on my book suggestions bulletin board!
Fahrenheit?
The Secret Life of Bees was a great book! My hubby even went with me to see what he thought was going to be a chick flick! Maybe they could watch the movie after reading the book.
I know that I'm so late in this, but my favorite book of all time, and one I read for the first time when I was a junior in high school, is In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. Also, YES to To Kill a Mockingbird and The Bell Jar and Speak, my favorite young adult novel and one that I've read five or six times at least.
I will always vote for Mockingbird. Always.
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