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What did they make you read in school?

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    #32
    Zaffy
    Registered Users Posts: 153 ✭✭Zaffy


    The Cay, To kill a Mocking Bird, Romeo & Juliet


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    #33
    angelinalove
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29 ✭angelinalove


    I forget all of them. thanks for reminding once I will revise.


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    #34
    Jello
    Registered Users Posts: 2,739 ✭✭✭Jello


    Junior Cert we did To Kill a Mockingbird which I really enjoyed.

    Then we did Of Mice and Men in 4th year which was quite enjoyable.

    Now I'm in 6th year and we're doing Macbeth (Shakespeare is Shakespeare, I'm not mad about it), The Crucible by Arthur Miller (not bad, bit hard to follow at times) and..... A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which I absolutely HATED. I know it's a classic by James Joyce and all that but I can't see anything worth liking in it. Started off ok but went rapidly downhill. Sorry Joyce fans, but it was crap!


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    #35
    minxie
    Registered Users Posts: 4,064 ✭✭✭minxie


    back in my day it was "peig"

    god i hated that woman...


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    #36
    Fad
    Registered Users Posts: 7,231 ✭✭✭Fad


    minxie1 wrote: »
    back in my day it was "peig"

    god i hated that woman...


    I actually want to read that :), was waiting around in the career guidance office, and pick up a copy (careers teacher is also an irish teacher) and it seems easy enough to read.

    So far:Goodnight Mr Tom
    The Cay
    When The Stars Stop Spinning
    The Coram Boy
    To Kill A Mocking Bird
    Merchant Of Venice
    A Moment Of War*
    The Crucible
    Philidelphia Here I Come
    Cinema Paradiso


    *A Moment Of War is quite definitly the worst book I have ever read, no words but SHÍT


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    #37
    lemon_sherbert
    Registered Users Posts: 716 ✭✭✭lemon_sherbert


    We did Oliver Twist for JC, with the Merchant of Venice. I liked them both, MoV so much so that I picked it as the theme for my art project. Though, like some of you guys, I had to read the voice of Oliver and be the narrator, so I read a lot of the book. And our teacher made us do English accents the whole way through:o

    For Leaving cert we did Macbeth (which I would have loved had our teacher not told us how it ended on the first day!:mad:), Death of A Salesman (fantastic), and Silas Marner. (bleh, it was okay, I love George Eliot, but this was my least favourite of hers.


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    #38
    metrovelvet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,376 ✭✭✭metrovelvet


    Invisible Man
    Hiroshima
    THe Scarlett Letter
    Lord of the Flies
    The Great Gatsby
    Romeo and Juliette
    The Odyssey
    Moby Dick
    THe Old Man and the Sea
    Hamlet
    Grendel
    The Crucible
    The Metamorphosis
    The Stranger
    Absalom Absalom
    Animal Farm
    Cats Cradle
    Native Son

    A lot more... I can't remember that far back!


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    #39
    lou91
    Closed Accounts Posts: 399 ✭✭lou91


    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was really not written for re-reading. I quite enjoyed it the first time, but it starts to grate very quickly.
    I'm supposed to revise it over Christmas, really don't think I can stomach it...


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    #40
    Tannylan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 242 ✭✭Tannylan


    Ann and Barry


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    #41
    cbreeze
    Registered Users Posts: 869 ✭✭✭cbreeze


    bigmouth is right - the grass is singing is v. depressing - not right for younger classes. [Christ it was boring]Best to pick a book someone ur own age has written


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    #42
    norwegianwood
    Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭norwegianwood


    HalloweenJack wrote: »
    Unfortunately, I also read a few bombs like Curious Incident of the Dog...
    i know, one of the most overrated books of all time! the dude talks for 2 chapters about clouds!:pac:


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    #43
    Zaffy
    Registered Users Posts: 153 ✭✭Zaffy


    norwegianwood wrote: »
    i know, one of the most overrated books of all time! the dude talks for 2 chapters about clouds!:pac:

    Sounds like my kind of book :cool:


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    #44
    manicmonoliths
    Registered Users Posts: 312 ✭✭manicmonoliths


    RandomUserName! wrote: »
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was really not written for re-reading. I quite enjoyed it the first time, but it starts to grate very quickly.
    I'm supposed to revise it over Christmas, really don't think I can stomach it...

    Had to read that for the LC too. I'd read it before that and thought it was alright but studying books really does ruin them, especially because we listened to a tape version where all the characters talked with Australian accents, really annoying! Took us about a month to get through it in class because our teacher didn't trust that people would read it at home.

    We also did How Many Miles to Babylon, it was bearable but still quite boring.

    For JC we did Whitefang which was actually alright, I'm half-tempted to reread it someday.


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    #45
    CSC
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    The best book I read in school was Animal Farm for the Junior Cert. Our teacher at the time I was a fanatic for the book and his enthusiasm and knowledge of the subject matter was inspiring.


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    #46
    monellia
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    In English we read:
    Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
    The Pearl by John Steinbeck
    Othello
    The Merchant of Venice
    Philadelphia, Here I Come! by Brian Friel
    Goodnight Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian

    We also studied the poetry of John Dunne, Robert Frost, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Philip Larkin, Derek Mahon, Eavan Boland, John Montague and Seamus Heany

    In Classical Studies:
    Euripides' Medea
    Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
    Aeschylus - Prometheus Bound

    Also the poetry of Ovid, Horace, Virgil and Propertius, and Livy's histories.


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    #47
    internetaddict
    Registered Users Posts: 108 ✭✭internetaddict


    In 6th year at the moment and we've studied "Jane Eyre" as our single text (loved it)."The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd and "Macbeth" are our comparative texts..TSOB is highly recommended, wish I could say the same about "Macbeth".

    For Junior Cert we read:
    "Goodnight Mr.Tom"(tolerable but studying it ruined it)
    "To Kill A Mockingbird"(loved it)
    "Romeo and Juliet"(I think I hate Shakespeare)
    "Of Mice and Men"(again tolerable but studying it ruined it)

    I suppose I should mention "An Triail" in Irish but I think I slept through most of that.:)


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    #48
    turgon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,762 ✭✭✭turgon


    They "made" me read the Catcher in the Rye. Best thing ive ever been made to do.


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    #49
    chenguin
    Registered Users Posts: 91 ✭✭chenguin


    How many miles to Babylon?
    Jane Eyre
    The Summer of My German Solider
    How to Kill a Mocking bird
    Romeo and Juliet
    King Lear

    All of which are great enjoyable books but I only discovered this after reading them again after school. I did not enjoy listening to the teacher drone on at the top of the class.


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    #50
    finalfantasist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 66 ✭✭finalfantasist


    I'll post what I can remember:

    Death of a Salesman (Leaving Cert)
    The Outsiders
    Philidelphia, Here I Come! (Leaving Cert)
    Goodnight Mr. Tom (Junior Cert)
    My Oedipus Complex (Leaving Cert)
    The Machine Gunners (Junior Cert)
    Antigone by Sophocles (Leaving Cert)


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    #51
    Alessandra
    Registered Users Posts: 1,276 ✭✭✭Alessandra


    The Cay- Theodore Taylor(Loved it)
    Goodnight Mister Tom- Michelle Magorian (Some sad parts)
    Romeo and Juliet

    L.C
    Macbeth(Love Shakespeare)
    Playboy of the Western World-JM Synge( TORTURE)
    Amongst Women- John McGahern


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    #52
    Busi_Girl08
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    5th and 6th Class
    The Secret Garden
    Goodnight, Mr. Tom-Didn't actually finish it, was really shocked at how it ended!!:eek:

    1st Year
    The Cay

    Junior Cert
    Play-Romeo and Juliet
    Text-To Kill a Mockingbird

    Leaving Cert
    Play-Philidelphia, Here I Come!
    Novel-How Many Miles to Babylon?
    Film-My Left Foot


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    #53
    Delta Kilo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭Delta Kilo


    turrant wrote: »
    "Lies of Silence" and "how many miles to Babylon"

    ~The silence in here could deafen a body~

    Thats what i remeber of "how many miles to babylon" I also saw the film at school

    I'm pretty sure that "the silence in here could deafen a body" is from Philadelphia, Here I Come by Brian Friel.


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    #54
    biZrb
    Registered Users Posts: 617 ✭✭✭biZrb


    I'm impressed that so many decent books are studied in school nowadays!

    In my day it was The Merchant of Venice and To Kill A Mocking Bird for the Junior and Philadelphia Here I Come and Hard Times for the Leaving


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    #55
    [Deleted User]
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    I still love Of Mice and Men and Animal Farm and the poetry of Austin Clarke.


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    #56
    terradactalxo
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    For Junior Cert:

    To Kill A Mockingbird and Romeo and Juliet

    LC:

    Single Text: Wuthering Heights

    Comparative: King Lear and Dancing at Lughnasa

    Film: Billy Elliot


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    #57
    Nervous Wreck
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    chenguin wrote: »
    How to Kill a Mocking bird

    Hmmm.... Must be a cleverly titled hunting manual.........


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    #58
    Tawfee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 200 ✭✭Tawfee


    To Kill a Mocking Bird
    MacBeth
    Hard Times (hard time reading it too)


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    #59
    DesignLady
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    terradactalxo wrote: »
    For Junior Cert:

    To Kill A Mockingbird and Romeo and Juliet

    LC:

    Single Text: Wuthering Heights

    Comparative: King Lear and Dancing at Lughnasa

    Film: Billy Elliot


    Film? I didn't know that was an option. Wow.

    You seem to have gotten really depressing texts to balence it out though


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    #60
    yerayeah
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    Goodnight Mr. Tom
    Romeo and Juliet
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    Lies of Silence
    How Many Miles to Babylon
    A Room With a View (the film - naked men swimming together. WOOOO!!)


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    #61
    shreksaurus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 201 ✭✭shreksaurus


    For the leaving the cert i studied a novel called Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Harding (i think). There was a character in the book called Fanny. What a name!!!

    Others for the LC were Hamlet, and My Left Foot (movie).

    And wasn't peig for irish? God i hated irish. It was a napping class for me in school. Does anybody remember scoisscealta (sorry about the spelling).


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