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School Prescribed Texts (1 Viewer)

Did / do you enjoy your school prescribed texts?

  • Loved them all.

    Votes: 1 6.3%
  • Some were good.

    Votes: 4 25.0%
  • Some good, some bad

    Votes: 4 25.0%
  • Most were bad.

    Votes: 5 31.3%
  • Hated every minute of reading them.

    Votes: 2 12.5%

  • Total voters
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fatgoldfish91

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the single prescribed text i have like in my whole english schooling was 'in the skin of a lion', the list of the ones i didn't is too extensive to name =___=;;
 

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Liked:
Hamlet (Got to study it twice :D)
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Great Gatsby
The Silver Sword

Hated:
Flash Jack
Huck Finn
Othello
Macbeth
All poetry
 

Gmac_0

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Highlights: Definitely The Catcher in the Rye (Yr10) If only I got to do it @ VCE.... also liked The Crucible in year 10...In year 11...Macbeth and Triage were great...Cry of the wolf in year 8....Year 12...all the texts were good, but none as good as the year 10 ones which I really enjoyed most..unfortunately I guess, but thats it. Year 7 and 8 was very basic, pretty dull stuff, except for The cry of the wolf which was great. 'Tomorrow when the war began' pretty good also, great author John Marsden. Also year 10 highlights, Lord of the Flies and Animal Farm - Awesome books.

Year 12

Streetcar named desire (Not bad but not great 5/10)
Lake of the woods (Better, still not brilliant 7/10)
Shark Net (Also ok, dull at times though 7/10
A Man for all Seasons (7/10 Also ok)
 

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Like:
The Crucible
This book i got in year 8 about emperor Nero, the story follows on the ancient sources.

Dislike:
The Great Gatsby
Henry IV
Julius Caesar

That's the only prescribed text i can remember..

voted 'some good, some bad'
 

boganxcore

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i love yeats' poetry, will continue reading his poetry for sure
 

00iCon

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Oops , I voted wrong. I thought it meant year 12 only, all of which i enjoyed. Wilfred Owen was good, but it made me feel slightly sad. All the Shakespears I read were good too. Of course, I consider watching any movie in class good, even if we have to analyse it.
But what I've hated in ALL if school are Chinese Cinderella and Wilie the Wimp.
 

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The Catcher in the Rye really stands out for me. All other texts were meh. But I hated Frankenstein intensely, only ever read the first letter.
 

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I liked Catcher in the Rye, Hamlet, and Frankenstein

Every other text we studied in class was crap.
 
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NightTime is an awesome book and the only prescribed text that i liked for Module B :D
 

abhi23

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Liked:
To Kill A Mockingbird (year 9)
Julius Caesar (year 12)
Macbeth(year 11)
Dracula (extension)
About A Boy (year 11)
Much Ado About Nothing (year 10)
Romulus, My Father (year 12)
W.B. Yeats (year 12)

Disliked
The Castle (year 8)
Fifth Element (year 9)
Strange Objects (year 10)
Whalerider (year 10)
Blade Runner (year 12)
Frankenstein (year 12)
Romeo and Juliet (movie)

Would loved to have done "The Crucible" or "The Namesake" this year instead of "Romulus, My Father".
My favourite text was definitely "To Kill A Mockingbird" + I liked the movie as well.

P.S. Nice thread. :)
 

tetrisam

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I can barely remember my texts prior yr 11

Liked/Meh:
- Pride and Prejudice (yr 12)
- King Lear (yr11)
- Heart of Darkness (yr11)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (yr 9)
- Robert Browning poetry (yr11)

Disliked:
- The Outsiders (yr8)
- Macbeth (yr10)
- Hamlet (yr12)
- Letters to Alice (yr12)
- The Queen (yr12)
- Emily Dickinson (yr12)
 

Lollipop212

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Studied in yr 11 and yr10 so far

Liked
Lord of the Flies
Cinderella Man, movie
All poetry
Boy in the Striped Pajamas, book and movie

Meh
Taming of the shrew, Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, shakespeare
The secret river, grenville

Disliked
Huckleberry FInn , twain
Lady Macbeth , shakespeare
 

liamlolz

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Y'all have had such good books! I haven't even had To Kill a Mockingbird prescribed unfortunately as it's my favourite book.
I'm crossing my fingers that next year (year 12), my teacher assigns us Pride and Prejudice because it's another one of my favs.
I must say that Lord of the Flies was the worst book I've been prescribed. If I were to be assigned The Catcher in the Rye, than that would be.
 

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