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Alright /lit/.

Anthropologist here.

I'm 25.

When I was going through school, we read things like The Most Dangerous Game (Elementary School), The Hobbit (Middle School), The Outsiders (Middle School), To Kill a Mockingbird (Middle School), etc. They offered Latin, Spanish, French and German for foreign languages. I grew up in South Carolina. I have no High School examples as I didn't goto High School (Home-schooled for High School).

How old are you, what kinds of things did you read in school, what foreign languages did your schools offer/did you take, and where did you grow up? It's helpful if you can give a general grade level (such as Elementary, Middle, and High School) for each example.

I'm interested in how the subject matter and reading level of this has changed over the years and in different locations.

>> No.1190280

I'm 21 and lived in outback Australia for my school years. In primary school the only language we had on offer was Indonesian, which was compulsory as far as I remember, but was kind of pointless since it wasn't available in highschool.

In highschool, there was the option to take Japanese (until the teacher left to teach English in Japan), and then there was nothing until one of the teachers decided to begin French and German classes in my final year, which I missed out on.

As far as the things we read, I can't remember anything specific from primary school, but in highschool we definitely read these books/viewed these films:

Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
It's Raining In Mango by Thea Astley
The Shark Net by Robert Drewe
Sister Kate by Jean Bedford
(as far as I am aware these are all Australian lit)
Kiss Kiss and Someone Like You by Roald Dahl
and I also remember reading a short story by Philip K. Dick that was in a compilation

films included:
Cane Toads: An Unnatural History
Witness
American Beauty
What's Eating Gilbert Grape

>> No.1190304

Fucking cane toads

>> No.1190374

>>1190304
Werner Herzog's favourite documentary, apparently.

>> No.1190384

Bump for hopefully after classes are done there will be more responses

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I can't remember most of elementary and middle school, it being quite some time ago (I'm 24) and mostly terrible, except I do know I read To Kill a Mockingbird in middle. I didn't even get into literature until high school really. In High School I remember we read Hamlet and Macbeth, Catcher In The Rye, some godawful novel from South Africa, and I want to say a lot of Langston Hughes' poetry.

My parents sent me to the county's public schools that concentrated in foreign languages, so I took Spanish and Russian in elementary school (can't remember a thing). In middle school I didn't take any, but my high school offered Spanish, French, German, Latin, and Japanese. Being a huge weeaboo in high school, I took Japanese. Still studying it now. The language is hard as fuck.

Oh, and I grew up in Louisville, KY, US.

>> No.1190417

32, private school in VA
Latin and French, Spanish also offered
High School books that I remember:
Pygmalion
Catcher in the Rye
Songs of Solomon
The Great Gatsby
Farewell to Arms
Catch-22
Animal Farm
Fahrenheit 451
Brave New World
Invisible Man
Cat's Cradle
The Metamorphosis
The Moviegoer
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Scarlet Letter
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Crucible
Macbeth
Great Expectations
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
The Stranger
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Canterbury Tales
Death of a Salesman
The Glass Menagerie
Waiting for Godot
Hamlet

>> No.1190513

>>1190417
>Animal Farm
>Fahrenheit 451
>The Metamorphosis
>The Scarlet Letter
>The Crucible
>The Glass Menagerie

Oh, yes. Thinking back, I read those ones too.

>> No.1190549

22

I can't remember anything from elementary school except The Time Machine in 8th grade. In high school we were required to read like three books over summer break and a few more during the school year. I used SparkNotes for most of them so I can't remember every book/play but I'll list the ones I can:

The Great Gatsby
The Tortilla Curtain
The Joy Luck Club
The Red Badge of Courage
All Quiet on the Western Front
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Dracula
Jude the Obscure
The Crucible
To Kill a Mockingbird
Macbeth
Othello
Catcher in the Rye
Animal Farm
Lord of the Flies
Hamlet
Hound of the Baskervilles
and some other shit.

My school was pretty small so we had only Spanish and French as our choices for foreign language. I took Spanish because I already speak Spanish, so it was an easy A. Looking back now I wish I hadn't been such a lazy fuck and taken French instead.

Los Angeles, CA.

>> No.1190551

I'm currently in twelfth grade right now so I will list all the books we have read starting with ninth grade.
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Scarlet Letter
Hundreds of short stories


Homer's Odyssey
Animal Farm
Fahrenheit 451
Oedipus Rex
Antigone
Kite Runner
One Thousand Splendid Suns
Grapes of Wrath
The Great Gatsby
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Catcher in the Rye
Beowulf
Great Expectations
Three Cups of Tea (Shit)
The Canterbury Tales
The Crucible
Hamlet
These are in no particular order, listed them as they came to my head.