Favorite high school literature

[Barb B]

opps - posted on the wrong board sorry! But I guess you can still answer!

I am coming up with a list for my ds to read in 12th grade. I am thinking of literature that I consider must reads in high school (especially later high school) as this is my last year with him! So far I have the Odessey (not sure how we missed reading this), another Shakespear - Macbeath or Hamlet, Sir Gawain (sp?) and the greed nights (or something like that), I have a few others around - I am also trying to get ones I can find a study guide or something for.

Thanks!

Barb

[Chris in VA]

opps - posted on the wrong board sorry! But I guess you can still answer!

I am coming up with a list for my ds to read in 12th grade. I am thinking of literature that I consider must reads in high school (especially later high school) as this is my last year with him! So far I have the Odessey (not sure how we missed reading this), another Shakespear - Macbeath or Hamlet, Sir Gawain (sp?) and the greed nights (or something like that), I have a few others around - I am also trying to get ones I can find a study guide or something for.

Thanks!

Barb


What has he read so far? I would put anything you read in a chronological order, so he can see progressions and also so he can see what was happening in the world at the time the work was being written.

[Blueridge]

Take a look at all the high school literature book lists in the WTM and pick a few from each. Also look at SL upper core literature books. You might consider How Should We Then Live by Francis Schaeffer.

[Maura in NY]

I think you mean Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. There is a decent Tolkien translation (yes, he did more than just write Lord of the Rings! He was a medieval language scholar).

Maura

[blueberry]

In 12th grade many students read some Russian literature. Perhaps some Dostoevsky or Tolstoy?