- a tale of two cities charles dickens
- amazing character development and it made learning about 18th century england/france much easier
- house on mango street by sandra cisneros
- best use of metaphors and figurative language
- the catcher in the rye j. d. salinger
- is there a movie of this? if not, there needs to be.
- the bean trees by barbara kingsolver
- classic coming of age kinda tale. made me want to travel to the desert.
- the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald
- lord of the flies by william golding
- cyrano de bergerac by edmond rostand
- and then i watched steve martin as a modern-day cyrano in roxanne and it was perfect!
- the taming of the shrew by william shakespeare
- the first time i actually enjoyed shakespeare.
- native son by richard wright
- like watching a train wreck, but you got to take a lot more from it.
- the importance of being earnest by oscar wilde
- then we made a quick, beatnik version of the play while wearing all black and sunglasses and snapping our fingers wildly. my dog played the part of ms. prism in a tutu because we were low on actors.
- the jungle by upton sinclair
- made me glad to be a child of the 90s.
- to kill a mockingbird by lee harper
- joy luck club by amy tan
- it's always nice to get more than one main character.
nov 21 2010 ∞
dec 6 2010 +