02-06-2013, 05:10 PM | #46 |
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Many on the list were short stories, not novels. I remember reading a lot of short stories in high school, but there's no way I'd remember the names of the vast majority of them.
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02-06-2013, 05:10 PM | #47 |
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I've dumped MSIE for Firefox and never looked back. I took the quiz without a problem. It's not the site, it is MSIE that's the problem.
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02-06-2013, 05:20 PM | #48 | |
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Has the author of the quiz actually talked to a fifteen year old? I have to every time I go to work, and I'm lucky to not get verbally abused. They aren't talking about books and litfic criticism; they're talking about lowriders, pimping and hoes, how to crack software and do DOSA takedowns, which teachers they want to get fired, and just about everything BUT their literature assignments. Edit: They also left Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Frost, Mark Twain, Edward Albee, Thackeray (sp?), the Bronte sisters, von Daniken, the Gawain-Poet, Snorri, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot (sp?), and a whole bunch of other authors off the list. Last edited by teh603; 02-06-2013 at 05:23 PM. |
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02-06-2013, 05:44 PM | #49 | |
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What doesn't really cross our paths much, here, is the Pulitzer, I'd say, since it's a fairly inward-looking US prize. |
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02-06-2013, 05:47 PM | #50 |
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I suspect they grabbed a list of "books/poems most often assigned to 9th and 10th graders," and put them all together, instead of trying to make any kind of list of "books ALL 10th graders are expected to have read."
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02-06-2013, 05:52 PM | #51 | |
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02-06-2013, 06:03 PM | #52 |
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Ditto! I also took honors and AP English in high school. While I heard of a lot of the titles, I never had to read any of them in high school. The two I did read, I read on my own as an adult.
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02-06-2013, 06:27 PM | #53 |
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What 10th graders where? My 10th and 11th grade granddaughters who both read a lot (and one is an honors student in advanced classes) have not read most of these books. I've read many of them, but am only "sort of well read".
While checking out the books I didn't know I found In The Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez for $1.99 at Amazon and B&N. The Kindle edition was published just this month by Algonquin Books. Not available yet in UK. I snapped it up because it looks excellent. I did especially like to see Killer Angels and Cannery Row on the list. Both are excellent books. |
02-06-2013, 06:28 PM | #54 |
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I didn't take the quiz, but looking at the list, my secondary college was very, ah, sub-par by the standards of this website. I can recall the books that we read in years eleven and twelve: Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck, Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, The Line by Arch Flanagan, The Secret River by Kate Grenville and The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. In tenth year, we didn't read any books in English; we analysed movies.
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02-06-2013, 07:12 PM | #55 |
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I got the "you may be well read" comment. Quite a list, but not my cup of tea for the most part. Nor was the list indicative what I was required to read in High School 40 years ago.
I wonder what the required reading was in 1913? |
02-06-2013, 07:50 PM | #56 | |
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I've read most of those, although I was surprised that there were several I hadn't heard of. I'd read ten by high school, although about half of those were poems. We read a lot of poetry.
But, yeah, the idea that a 10th grader would know more than a couple of these is kind of ridiculous. Quote:
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02-06-2013, 08:14 PM | #57 |
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The Catcher in the Rye is another book that I would have expected on the list. I have been recalling other authors that I read in high school that aren't on this list: Faulkner, Arthur Miller, Orwell, Melville, Chaucer, Thoreau. I remember one of my favorite assigned books was The Count of Monte Cristo.
The earlier posts made me curious what books are studied in other countries like England. I did a google search on recommended books for English A-level, and the results were more typical of what I'd expect and rather similar to American curriculum (more so than this quiz list). |
02-07-2013, 01:25 AM | #58 |
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My result said that I was "Pretty well read but not familiar with today's updated literary curriculum".
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02-07-2013, 07:42 AM | #59 |
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Yes, well. No Goethe, no Dante, no Whitman, no Moliere, not much Shakespear. Not many modern european authors either. I didn't notice if there were any spanish authors. Do I get extra points for knowing some of the poems by heart?
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02-07-2013, 08:00 AM | #60 |
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When I was 15 and in honors english I got stuck reading stuff like Pigs in Heaven and Raisin in the Sun. I wanted to read books like 1984 and Starship Troopers, books that ended up sticking with me far longer than the snoozefests we had forced on us.
I wouldn't read most of the books on this list if you paid me. |
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