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I ask because many people I follow on tumblr are getting hyped for Gatsby - and they're in HS and probably read the book. Nothing wrong with that - I personally didn't have to.

I didn't read it in HS but my brother did. I didn't do junior or senior HS English though so I am guessing that's when they read it?

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From what I can remember: Ethan Frome, Huck Finn, Silas Marner, My Antonia, The Great Gatsby, Moby Dick, The Scarlett Letter, Edith Hamilton's Mythology, Jane Eyre, Beowulf, Canterbury Tales, various short stories, letters, essays and poems.

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I had to read it for high school and then I had to read it again in college. I recognize its merits. I can discuss it messages and all that.

But I still don't like the book and as an english major I am aware this makes me a bad person. I won't watch the movie unless someone I like drags me to it.

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This list is nowhere near comprehensive nor in any sort of order, but off the top of my head:

The Bible as/in Literature, Greek Mythology, Macbeth, Cry the Beloved Country, Great Expectations (terrible way to introduce kids to Dickins, IMO), The Crucible, The Scarlet Letter, Jane Eyre, Frankenstein, Their Eyes Were Watching God, A Tale of Two Cities, The Great Gatsby, various poems by e.e. cummings, Death of a Salesman, The Color Purple, Fifth Business, The Odyssey, Beowulf, King Lear, and Romeo and Juliet.

Edited 2013-04-27 20:39 (UTC)

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writerserenyty - 2013-04-27 20:57 (UTC) - Expand

Off the top of my head... Gatsby, Lord of the Flies, Bless Me Ultima, Wurthering Heights, Animal Farm, Beloved, Heart of Darkness, Old Man and the Sea, Huck Finn (think I'm missing a few). We also spent some time every year covering poetry.

And a Shakespeare every year: Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, King Lear.

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I went to seven high schools in four years and none of them included The Great Gatsby on the syllabus for any of their classes. The only Steinbeck works at any of those schools were Of Mice and Men or The Pearl for remedial freshman English, The Grapes of Wrath for sophomore English Lit, and juniors could choose from a list of works that included East of Eden, Cannery Row, and The Winter of Our Discontent. I suppose the list could have included The Great Gatsby but I don't think so because I've never read that and I am pretty sure I achieved my goal of reading all the books on that list before I graduated.

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(Anonymous) - 2013-04-27 21:01 (UTC) - Expand

I should have been specific and said 'over the summer reading'. Pretty sure then our only options were Of Mice and Men, Flags of Our Fathers and weirdly Life of Pi.

the outsiders, ordinary people of mice and men, and some play i don't remember. other classes read shakespeare and stuff like frankenstein, how to kill a mockingbird, fahrenheit 451, and lord of the flies

I remember one year the summer book we read was "No Impact Man" and I only remember it because I absolutely hated it. It was a guy's challenge to try to live a year making a zero carbon footprint. It was basically him talking rambling on about his internal struggle, accidentally using a tissue, and then even more internal struggles over it.
One of the worst parts was he would continually mention how everyone asked them what they did without toilet paper, yet refused to answer it. Stop talking about it if you're not even going to tell.
Other than that I never really had problems with the assigned reading. I read Gatsby, Pride & Prejudice, Siddhartha, to name a few.

We didn't have assigned reading. We picked our own books (there was a list of appropriate books, but if you wanted to use a book that wasn't on the list you could ask the teacher and it would usually be fine).

Mostly Shakespeare. And Little Women.

Read Gatsby... Junior year, iirc?

Stuff I remember: Lord of the Flies, Pride & Prejudice, Beowulf, Oedipus, The Great Gatsby, Great Expectations, Romeo & Juliet, Till We Have Faces (and some mythology accompanying it), and a bunch of other things I'm blanking on.

We didn't have to read Gatsby and I've still never read it. My favorite of the books I remember reading for HS is One Hundred Years of Solitude. I don't remember most of the others, except for Jane Eyre, The Joys of Motherhood (which contributed to my desire never to have kids) and a bunch of Shakespere.

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jerico_cacaw - 2013-04-28 01:24 (UTC) - Expand

This is off the top of my head, and it's been a few years, but:

Freshman year: Odyssey, Canterbury Tales (selections), Tale of Two Cities, Romeo and Juliet, Cold Mountain, Beowulf. My teacher was cool

Sophomore year: Clockwork Orange, Catcher in the Rye. Again, I'm sure there were a lot of other things, but I feel like a lot of what we read kind of sucked sophomore year, which may be why I can't remember it. My teacher was awesome sophomore year, though.

Junior year: American literature. I can remember reading Scarlet Letter, a whole bunch of poetry (I distinctly remember Whitman and Ginsburg), Gatsby, something by Hemingway I can't remember. Also, I read Gravity's Rainbow for an outside reading assignment. That was fun. My teacher sucked, though.

Senior year: I took a couple elective English classes instead of AP Literature because w/e. So for one semester I just watched a bunch of movies with my teacher from sophomore year, and the other I spent dicking around with my teacher from freshman year because it was a class on mythology and I knew a ton of mythology already.

Freshman year was Romeo and Juliet, The Pearl, and multiple short stories; most of the year was about writing and grammar vs. reading because of teacher preference.

Sophomore was mostly Poe works, Julius Caesar, To Kill a Mockingbird, a few short stories; same teacher as freshman year but she'd been forced to incorporate more required reading. We also looked at stuff like Harry Potter and the Narnia books, though they weren't so much required as the teacher knew we'd all read them already and we just talked about them from there. This was the year the school started requiring reading at least four books a semester outside of class text for every student whereas before it'd been more of a reward thing vs. a requirement.(We'd do reports/reading tests on them to prove we'd been reading).

Junior was A Separate Peace, A Raisin in the Sun, Gatsby, the Crucible, a huge unit on poetry, and some short stories. There was also a required humanities course that year in which we read a few more plays, mostly looking at Shakespeare and some Eastern plays.

Senior year started out with a required summer reading list (for AP English) but our AP teacher bailed over the summer, the school had no idea how to replace her and they called off the reading list before most of us had began. Then we got a replacement teacher a few days before class started because there was next to no one for the job, and she couldn't care less about actually teaching us anything, so we had very little required reading. We were supposed to read Hamlet, Macbeth, Wuthering Heights and a couple of other things I honestly can't remember the title of, but she just made us watch the movie versions instead. We didn't even get the actual books given to us for most of the 'required' text.

I also took an optional Public Speaking/Speech/Dramatic Interp kind of course in which we were required to read a few plays/books off a list of options. I remember things like The Importance of Being Ernest, more Shakespeare, Dickens stuff, and a lot of film scripts being on the list.

I read The Great Gatsby in my second time through Grade 12 English (I was sick early in the year, and my grandfather died late in the year, so I missed enough assignments to drop my grade to failing).

Let's see if I can remember what else we read (it's been more than a decade...v_v)...

I can't remember exact grade, but in as close to chronological order as I can remember:

Novels: Something Wicked This Way Comes, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Princess Bride (and one of our choosing - I chose The Picture of Dorian Grey), The Grapes of Wrath, Dracula (which I'd already read), The Handmaid's Tale. There were definitely a couple more, but I'm blanking on them.
Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, MacBeth, Hamlet, King Lear

The Invisible Man. I got to the part where the man raped his daughter in his sleep while dreaming of having sex with a white woman. He got her pregnant. I was like "NOPENOPENOPE" and just took the F.

I definitely did Gatsby in high school. From what I remember, I also did Brave New World, A Separate Peace, Antigone (three times), The Scarlet Letter, The Things They Carried, Great Expectations, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Death Of A Salesman, Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story, The Old Man And The Sea, Of Mice And Men, Fahrenheit 451, Catcher in the Rye, and Crime and Punishment.

I never had to read Gatsby in HS (have never read it to this day). I'm pretty sure it was an option on some of our book report lists, but it was never one my whole class had to read.

The ones I best remember the whole class having to read, let's see...

Freshman: Romeo and Juliet, The Old Man and the Sea, A Tale of Two Cities, The Odyssey
Sophomore/Junior (I had the same teacher for both, so they blur together): Frankenstein, The Scarlet Letter, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies, A Separate Peace, The Tempest
Senior: Hamlet, Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, Oedipus Rex

Those were just the lengthier assignments. We always read lots of short stories and poems too.

Metamorphosis (Kafka)
A Hunger Artist (Kafka)
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
Romeo & Juliet (Shakespeare)
Mosses from an Old Manse short stories (Hawthorne)
The Old Man and the Sea (Kafka)
Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck)
The Pearl (Steinbeck)
Death of a Salesman (Miller)
All My Sons (Miller)
Coming of Age in Mississippi (Moody)

...Hm. I can't think of anything else.

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(Anonymous) - 2013-04-27 21:44 (UTC) - Expand

A short, by no means exclusive list:

-Heart of Darkness
-Things Fall Apart
-Utopia
-The Great Gatsby (but I'd read it before)
-The Odyssey
-Romeo and Juliet
-Hamlet
-Measure for Measure
-Catcher in the Rye (UGH)
-Franny and Zoey
-The Outsiders
-Frankenstein (in the course of my academic career I have read Frankenstein three times)
-Huckleberry Finn
-House on Mango Street
-Great Expectations
-Bleak House (I was supposed to read it at least, but I never finished it)
-A Tale of Two Cities (ditto)
-Pride and Prejudice
-The Grapes of Wrath
-Brave New World
-The Giver
-To Kill a Mockingbird

Honestly? the only unit I remember the details of what exactly we read was the Shakespeare unit. Other than that I don't really recall. I do know we did not read Gatsby though. (US school, if that matters)

Madame de Sévigné - Letters (letters from French noblewoman to her daughter in the 1700s, I found it rather fun - she gossips a lot. But I've met people who hated it)
A bunch of plays by Molière - The Learned Ladies, The Imaginary Invalid, The Miser...
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
The Metamorphoses - Ovid
Folktales - Charles Perrault
A collection of poetry by Yves Bonnefoy
Jacques the Fatalist and his Master - Denis Diderot

That's what I can remember. There were many extracts from novels and collections as well, since we had a large curriculum but not enough time to complete it. Mainly classics: Arthur Rimbaud, Victor Hugo, François Villon, Arthur Miller, the Brontës...etc.

My HS sucked major balls when it came to Literature/History/Philosophy. For Lit, we spent a huge amount of our time reading ABSOLUTE RUBBISH. Self-help books and that kind of trash. FOR YEARS AND YEARS, how to even explain how awful it was. When they started giving us better material it was too late for most of the class.

Books that didn't suck:

- Don Quixote
- Steppenwolf
- Perfume

And I can't remember if I read Les Mis on my own or thanks to the study plan. But dear god, how I thank my librarian. He directed my readings through all Junior High and High School and I never regretted reading whatever he suggested.

I haven't read Gatsby, but I've read other books by its author.