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@HighPockets group

Did anyone have to read The Lottery?
I did.
In 7th grade.

I did! I read it in 7th grade and then again in 11th grade. The second time, we held our own "lottery" and threw wads of paper at the "winner." I accidentally hit them in the face because I'm a bad shot.

We did a 'lottery' and the 'winner' was the class jock, so we made him sing Let It Go in front of everyone.
It was beautiful.

@HighPockets group

If it wasn't so overplayed, I would genuinely love Let It Go. A power ballad about accepting yourself and your strengths and flaws and being unashamed of who you are, all sung by Idina Menzel? Heck yeah!!

@n o s t r a d a m u s location_city

The first four are TERRIBLE:
'Boy Overboard' by Morris Gleitzman
'Shorts' Short story anthology (We read 'Bright Lights', 'Xenophobia', and the one about the Romanov descendant)
'Nips XI' by Ruth Stark
'Zac and Mia' by A.J.Betts
'The Hobbit' by J R R Tolkien (Was a pick your own book thing)
'Animal Farm' by George Orwell
'The Secret Garden' by Frances Hodgson Burnett
'The Book Thief' by Markus Zusak
'Holes' by Lois Sachar
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' by William Shakespeare

These are some I read when I started homeschooling:
'The Handmaid's Tale' by Margret Atwood
'Romeo and Juliet' by William Shakespeare
'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt
'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare
'House of Leaves' by Mark Z Danielewski

I'm sure there were more but those are the ones I remember.

@Starfast group

Since I already mentioned the ones I liked, here's all the novel studies that I didn't like:

  • The Giver (as mentioned previously, I had to read this three times)
  • Hatchet (Had to read this one twice)
  • Invitation to the Game (which sucked on it's own, but to add insult to injury we were supposed to read The Outsiders, but the other class took too long so we got stuck with this).
  • In the Heat of the Night (How do you make a book about a murder boring?)
  • Of Mice and Men (Depressing and boring).
  • Hiroshima (I feel like I might not have hated this as much as I did if I wasn't reading it for novel study, and if we didn't have dumb ass assignments where we had to write a paragraph about symbolism IN A NONFICTION BOOK)
  • Lord of the Flies (Weird AF and hard to follow at parts, but if there was one highlight to reading this it was the entire class just saying "sucks to your ass-mar" at any minor inconvenience).
  • All Quiet on the Western Front (I don't remember anything about this book, only that I hated it. DNF'ed).
  • Jane Eyre (Ok, so funny story. I got read this instead of All Quiet on the Western Front because I complained too loudly and didn't realize my teacher was within earshot. He overheard and was like "Oh well you can read Jane Eyre if you want." And I was like "Yes please God I would literally rather read a poorly written Twilight fanfiction than All Quiet. Turns out though that classic literature isn't for me, and too this day I don't know if Jane Eyre was necessarily the better option)

I feel like I'm missing a couple, but if I am it's probably just because they boring and unmemorable anyways.

@cue-nervous-humming

Books I liked:
Julius Caesar (the play by Shakespeare)
The Giver (@starfast we'll just have to agree to disagree)
The Hobbit
To Kill a Mockingbird
Holes
Les justes (read it for French)
Percy Jackson; The Lightning Thief (choose your own book thing for french, so yes, the first time i read it i read it in French)

Books I disliked
Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai
A Wrinkle in Time
The Pearl (by John Steinbeck)
Lord of the Flies
Le Malade Imaginaire (we read it in French)
Kleider machen Leute (for German)

Meh
The Bronze Bow
Roll of Thunder, hear my Cry
Romeo and Juliet
Hatchet
L'alouette (also read it in French)
Der Schimmelreiter (for German)
Der Feuerschlucker (for German)

There were more, I just can't remember them at the moment…

@Pickles group

We did a summary of Julius Caesar because it was in the curriculum but it takes my teacher too long to actually read it with us. I wish we had actually read it
She's also obsessed with To Kill A Mockingbird and it's scary

@galaxyunicorn-is-in-love-with-starry

Uhh here’s the ones i remember

6th grade
Esperanza Rising - Good But I don’t really remember it
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - It was good but it was also really sad

7th grade
The Night Gardener - Amazing, exciting, engrossing, my favorite book that we read in school
A Christmas Carol - it was hard to read and his writing style was hard to understand. Like there were parts I had to read over and over and still didn’t understand
The 5 People You Meet in Heaven - Eh. The characters were kinda boring and the girls (w/ the exception of Tala who was like 5) didn’t have their own personalities and were dependent on their husbands

@Starfast group

The Giver (@starfast we'll just have to agree to disagree)

Fair enough. I feel like I read this book at the wrong time. Like, if I read for the first time now as opposed to 13 years ago I may have had a different opinion. But since I've already read it 3 times, I'm not exactly rushing to go pick up another copy.

Did you see the graphic novel for The Giver?

I didn't even know this was a thing lol.

Also I read M*cbeth, it was really good!

Macbeth was the only Shakespeare play that I read for school and actually kind of liked. I remember after we read it we watched this movie adaptation and there was this one part where Lady Macbeth screamed really weirdly and we made our teacher rewind it so we could watch it again because we all thought it was funny for some reason. My friend said she sounded like a tea kettle lmao.

The other two Shakespeare plays that I had to read were Julius Caesar and Titus Andronicus. I remember just being so confused with Julius Caesar because it was my first time reading old English and I honestly had no idea what was going on like half the time? There was one point where we had to write a paragraph about something or other and use quotes from the play to back up our points and I asked my teacher to proof read and at one point he was just like "Um… that's not what he was saying." Honestly, it was like reading a foreign language.

Titus Andronicus was alright. I don't remember loving it, but I didn't necessarily hate it either.

@HighPockets group

Yeah, the Giver graphic novel is neat because color only gets added as Jonas seems the memories with color in the,!

I want to read Titus Andronicus, it sounds….interesting.
Also it has the original yo mama joke!

@HighPockets group

The Muppet Christmas Carol is the best Christmas Carol and y'all can't change my mind.

Both I and Red agree with you.

So does Dominic Noble