Well, going to a Ontario highschool, maybe I can help in relating to what might have been similar. I'll list all of what I remember reading.
Shakespeare
The Twelfth Night MacBeth Othello King Lear The Merchant of Venice Hamlet
The Great Gatsby To Kill a Mockingbird Not Wanted on the Voyage - Timothy Findley Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood The Chrysalids ( I rather enjoyed this one) Lord of the Flies Catcher in the Rye A Prayer for Owen Meany Heart of Darkness (as difficult as it may be I really liked it) Lives of the Saints Emma Jane Austen stuff of course Animal Farm Fahrenheit 451 Wuthering Heights Wrath of the Grapes Jane Eyre
For poetry:
The Highwayman (personal favourite) The Interlopers Lamb to the Slaughter Shakespeare's sonnets
Also I would recommend Greek mythology and my favourite authors that I was starting to read in high school were Piers Anthony (his Incarnation of Immortality series was what I read in the library throughout grade 11), also Agatha Christie.
If I remember anything else I'll post. I hope that helps with the basis of the English front of high school.
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Date: 2011-01-13 05:21 pm (UTC)Shakespeare
The Twelfth Night
MacBeth
Othello
King Lear
The Merchant of Venice
Hamlet
The Great Gatsby
To Kill a Mockingbird
Not Wanted on the Voyage - Timothy Findley
Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
The Chrysalids ( I rather enjoyed this one)
Lord of the Flies
Catcher in the Rye
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Heart of Darkness (as difficult as it may be I really liked it)
Lives of the Saints
Emma
Jane Austen stuff of course
Animal Farm
Fahrenheit 451
Wuthering Heights
Wrath of the Grapes
Jane Eyre
For poetry:
The Highwayman (personal favourite)
The Interlopers
Lamb to the Slaughter
Shakespeare's sonnets
Also I would recommend Greek mythology and my favourite authors that I was starting to read in high school were Piers Anthony (his Incarnation of Immortality series was what I read in the library throughout grade 11), also Agatha Christie.
If I remember anything else I'll post. I hope that helps with the basis of the English front of high school.