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  • 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
    • bold and colorful.
  • lord of the flies by william golding
    • children can be crazy.
  • 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
    • classic.
  • joy luck club by amy tan
    • it's always nice to get more than one main character.
nov 21 2010 ∞
dec 6 2010 +