this year I'll be studying various pieces of American Lit. I'll have to read part of Moby Dick (icky) but at least there'll be some Edgar Allen Poe and Langston Hughes to make up for the boring parts.

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This year we're doing:
A Brave New World
Macbeth
Night
Doll's House

I like BNW so far, and I'm excited for Macbeth.

For my Honors Government and Economics class we're reading Rise to Rebeillion by Jeff Shaara. Not bad so far, only a little dry.

And tomorrow we start Beowulf for AP Brit Lit. I'm unbelievably excited.

I loved Beowulf! It was my very first Lit book last year and among the best ones. W00000t epic fantasy/mythology

I'm reading Evidence That Demands A Verdict by Josh McDowell as part of Bible studies and I'm in apologetics heaven.

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When I was at school I can remember studying Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and Lord of the Flies...

At college..
Last year.
English Literature: Spies by Michael Frayn, Othello - Shakespeare and the World's Wife (poetry) by Carol Ann Duffy. World's Wife is just amazing...

Classical Civilisation: Odyssey by Homer (Greek epic); Oedipus Rex and Electra by Sophocles, Agamemnon by Aeschylus (tragedy) ;The Wasps, The Acharnians and Peace all by Aristophanes (comedy).

This year in classics (I'm not doing English anymore):
Virgil's Aeneid (Roman Epic); Aristophanes - Lysistrata, Assembly Women; Menander - Cantankerous Old Man. (Comedy)
And for the tragedy - Euripides - Medea, Hippolytus and Bacchae.
We have to compare the Aeneid to the Odyssey and Euripides to Aeschylus and Sophocles.
The Aeneid and the tragedy are probably going to be pretty boring... with the exception of Medea which is just amazing (Basically her husband leaves her for a princess so she killed her children and killed the princess- pretty ace... )
The comedy will be strange as usual... Greek humour is just weird but full of dirty jokes so we all love it...

So yeah... that's pretty much it...

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well i finally made it to my American literature class. i was wondering if anyone could give me any great ideas on which American classics are the best, like biographies, autobiographies etc. i really have no clue. hehe
thanks!

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I will be starting The Hidding Place by Corrie Ten Boom very soon...tonight, probably.

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Well I have several books for each class that I'm studying this semester.

For my Native American studies class:

"First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History" and "The Salish People & The Lewis and Clark Expedition."

Pretty interesting so far. But the first one is kind of review for me right now.

For my Revolution And Reform In China class:

"Son Of The Revolution" by Lian Heng and Judith SHapiro. Fantastic book. It's SO fascinating. Which is odd for a book for one of my classes. XD

"Governance and Politics In China" by Tony Saich.

"Wild Grass: Three Stories Of Change In Modern China"

"China Road: A Journey Into The Future Of A Rising Power"

For my American Political Thought class:

"Free Government In The Making"

"The Federalist Papers" by Hamilton, Mdison and Jay. We haven't started reading this yet, but I'm really excited about it. I've heard so much about the Federalist Papers and have read bit and pieces of it. So, it should be good.

"Looking Backward" by Edward Bellamy.

"Common Sense" by Thomas Paine. (We're reading right now, and it's really interesting. Just some revolutionary theory. )

"Civil Disobedience" by David Thoreau. Well, it's by Thoreau, so it should be interesting.

And we were reading random articles about the Puritans earlier.

And for my Model United Nations class, "The United Nations In The 21st Century". Just informational stuff about the UN pretty much. There's also lots of current events readings.

And that's what I'm studying this semester. XD

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The most recent book we had to read for English class is The Catcher in the Rye ... in my opinion, it's ok, but the plot is somewhat lame. and we had to write an essay about it, and i wrote about the book's characters' phoniness (i scored 95/100 ) we're also going to read To Kill a Mockingbird and Jane Eyre later on this year I'm really looking forward to reading Jane Eyre. =)

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I revisited AU on Jan 14th after an almost 10-year break! The nostalgia..!

We've just started studying "Romeo and Juliet" in my English class I must say that I really like the story, but it's really really hard to read

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Frankenstein

Did anybody know that Frankenstein isn't the name of the monster but the scientist that created him. Weird huh?

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^Lol, well it's not called Frankenstein's monster for nothing eh?

Morgan's Run by Colleen McCullough. Brilliant book! I love historical novels

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Hmmm I'm reading about quantitative and qualitative research methods...

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Yuck ^ Sounds alot like an obligatory class I follow: Methodology.

Literature we have to study is by Earl Babbie "Social Research"

I hate it.

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Eww, what kinds of methodologies are you studying? Well, I really find it boring, although theory of science is worse...

I've just browsed through a book about Public Relations... rather interesting actually, but I knew most of it already!

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wow all that stuff sounds so much more sophisticated then the high school stuff i'm doing. haha.
in my American literature class i'm doing My Antonia by Willa Cather, and in my American history outside reading i chose to study/read In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick. Truly amazing, yet gruesome book. very interesting what happens to the human mind after one is forced through starvation and commits cannibalism *shudders*

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"Yes, i believe you have. But i'll tell you a secret.... all the best people are."

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Married Khamûl on January the 26th, 2007:bones: