Assigned Reading


To Kill a Mockingbird
The Great Gatsby
Romeo and Juliet
Animal Farm
Hamlet
Lord of the Flies
Of Mice and Men
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Macbeth
The Catcher in the Rye
Fahrenheit 451
1984
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
Night
The Outsiders
Laurie Frankel
Mrs. Lasserstein passes out copies of Lord of the Flies and says this will be our fall book, but a whole season seems too long because Lord of the Flies is only 208 pages, and I have already read it, and it is not very interesting. It is by William Golding who won an award for showing that boys are mean and badly behaved, even somewhere nice like the beach. This seems like something anyone in the entire world who has ever met a boy could tell you, but they gave William Golding a Nobel Prize for ...more
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