My Top Ten Classics Read After High School -How About You? What would make your top ten?

My Top Ten Classics Read After High School

 

1. Pride and Prejudice-Austen
2. Murder on the Orient Express-Christie
3. Persuasion-Austen
4. North and South-Gaskell
5. Under the Greenwood Tree-Hardy
6. A Night To Remember-Lord
7. Treasure Island-Stevenson
8. The Whipping Boy-Fleischman
9. Night-Wiesel
10. Diary of Anne Frank-Frank

 

My Top Ten Books Read in High School-WHAT DID YOU READ IN HIGH SCHOOL that made an impact on you?

My Top Ten Books Read in High School

(Plus the start of it all in grade school)

1. And Then there Were None-Christie
2. The Bad Seed-March
3. Arsenic and Old Lace-Kesselring
4. Romeo and Juliet-Shakespeare
5. Macbeth-Shakespeare
6. The Odyssey-Homer
7. The Pearl-Steinbeck
8. Little House on the Prairie-Wilder
9. The Great Gatsby-Fitzgerald
10. Taming of the Shrew-Shakespeare

How did they impact me?  Agatha Christie inspired me to write and to be original and deceptive and crazy and interesting.  The Bad Seed and Arsenic and Old Lace (from Theatre class) were absolute foundations for drama and solving a good mystery should be the spice of life with every day you live. Shakespeare is just plain fun to read aloud, especially with exaggerated dramatic effect. The Odyssey makes me want to walk out the front door and spontaneously go anywhere. (My husband and I did often before children.) The Pearl made me appreciate people for who they are and love that we are all different. Jay Gatsby and Romeo make a young girl swoon and look forward to one day falling in love.  And lastly, The Little House on the Prairie was the first chapter book I ever read.  Thank you Ms. Winner, my second grade teacher from Mesquite, Texas, Range Elementary.

 

Classic Novels that Should be Taught in School

Why should one have read the following before hitting adulthood:

a. The list below covers a wide spectrum of characters from many walks of life. (The wider the spectrum the better a person can problem solve how to react to all kinds of people in the world, create more compassion and acceptance and open mindedness towards others, and even come to appreciate all walks of life.)

b. To have an awareness that there is good and evil in the world and how to respond to it as well as what consequences our choices can lead to in the end is a good reminder to anyone that we should all look before we leap.
1 Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
2 1894 by George Orwell
3 And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
4 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
5 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
6 Edgar Allan Poe’s Short Stories Collection
7 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
8 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
9 The Pearl by John Steinbeck
10 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Websites that cover character analysis and examines good and evil in classic novels:

study.com

enotes.com

schmoop.com