Help! Choosing books to teach from this list

[Vicki]

Katie, it's not final yet, but as of right now I am planning on doing Fallen Angels and To Kill A Mockingbird with my standard and modified classes. For my honors, I will also do To Kill a Mockingbird and then I am going to do Farenheit 451. I want to do a third book with them, but I am still thinking about that one, perhaps Catcher in the Rye or Glass Menagerie. There are many I want to do but things definitely take me longer my first year with them, so we will see how things go. Thanks

[Katie]

Vicki wrote: "Katie, it's not final yet, but as of right now I am planning on doing Fallen Angels and To Kill A Mockingbird with my standard and modified classes. For my honors, I will also do To Kill a Mockingb..."

Sounds great. This whole thread makes me miss high school English...classic novels, essays, discussion questions. ***sigh*** I didn't know how good I had it.

Best of luck to you this year, Vicki!

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I had good luck teaching Fahrenheit 451 to high schoolers. I then used the film as a compare/contrast activity.

[Vicki]

Shoshanapnw, I usually try to incorporate the films. I'll probably pick it up too.

Thanks Katie, I often miss college more though, I guess because I was more active in college. I'd give anything to sit in on any good book discussion. I love when it works out in the classroom.

[Carol]

Go for broke and read Ulysses-James Joyce. What an interesting book for 10th graders to be introduced into the foray of 20th century literature. Next would be The Great Gatsby-F. Scott Fitzgerald. Then moving on up to A Stranger In A Strange Land-Robert A. Heinlein. Throw in a little Jose Saramago anything by him and Hermann Hess's Steppenwolfe for world literature.Pretty much rounds it out.

[Jenna]

My personal favorites off the list was when i was in school was:

To Kill A Mockingbird (0f Course)
A Street Car Named Desire

but personally i have been meaning to read Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury anything bradbury stands out to me ...i was required to read in 7th/8th grade Something Wicked This Way Comes and i loved it...

now i have still yet to read 451 but i am definitely going to put it in the TBR

[Jennifer]

I loved To Kill a Mockingbird, The Catcher in the Rye, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I really really did not enjoy The Scarlet Letter

[Vicki]

Jenna wrote: "My personal favorites off the list was when i was in school was:

To Kill A Mockingbird (0f Course)
A Street Car Named Desire

but personally i have been meaning to read Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbur..."

I actually just got Something Wicked This Way Comes from paperbackswap. I know I was fascinated with it in school and wanted to read it again.

[Suzanne]

Oooh, I forgot about 'Something Wicked...'!!!
I loved that book!