what books do native children read when thay're in secondary school?

In the US, it depends on state and county and district. Furthermore, we don’t call it “secondary school” either. Nonetheless, some common books you’ll see read in middle and high schools here: The Lord of the Flies by William Golding The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Call of the Wild by Jack London Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Night by Elie Wiesel

Generally a high schooler can expect to read: 1. ‘Canterbury Tales’ -or/and- ‘Beowulf’ (a book of Medieval stories vs an old English epic) 2. two or more of Shakespeare’s works 3. ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ (one of the oldest works or English satire) 4. ‘Jane Eyre’ -or/and- ‘Wuthering Heights’ (both creepy suspense driven novels considered romantic) 5. Possibly a Jane Austin novel like Pride and Prejudice 6. Possibly ‘Little Women’ 7. Possibly ’Dracula’ -or/and- ‘Frankenstein’ (some of the first English sci-fi) 8. Probably some Charles Dickens including ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ 9. ‘Huckleberry Finn’ -or/and- ‘Tom Sawyer’ 10. ‘The Jungle’ 11. ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ 13. ‘Night’ 12. Some kinda modern classic- maybe C.S. Lewis or J.R.R. Tolkien 13. Some kind of contemporary literature

We read: Of Mice and Men, To Kill a Mockingbird, Gone With the Wind, The Great Gatsby, Flowers for Algernon, Fahrenheit 451, Lord of the Flies, The Outsiders, Othello, Macbeth, The Odyssey, The Jungle, The Lottery and Other Stories, And a lot of poems by Poe, Frost, and Dickinson

The Great Gatsby

The Giver

Going off personal memory:  Lots of Shakespeare Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Salman Rushdie) A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Alexander Solzhenitsen) A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens) Wuthering Heights (Emily(?) Brontë) Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf) As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner) Sula (Toni Morrison) All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Remarque) The Great Gatsby (F Scott Fitzgerald) I'll come back and add some if I remember more.

Shakespeare (Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth being particularly common) Some form of dystopian novel (1984, Brave New World, Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451) The Odyssey or Iliad sometimes Particularly American: The Great Gatsby, Of Mice and Men, The Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird

Some Shakespeare, Tom Sawyer, Heart of Darkness, The Great Gatsby, Of Mice and Men, 1984, The Scarlet Letter

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Here's a sample from what I can remember myself and siblings/relatives reading as prescribed material during secondary school in Ireland: Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee Goodnight Mister Tom - Michelle Magorian Carrie's War - Nina Bawden Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe Lord of the Flies - William Golding The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald Sive - John B Keane Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Mildred D Taylor Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Rome and Juliet, Dante's Inferno, The Iliad, The Oddysey, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Canterbury Tales, The Grapes of Wrath, The Great Gatsby

I can tell you what *I* read in high school (secondary school). This would have been in the early 1980s, and I was in the more advanced English classes. Some of these are fairly common for high schoolers to read, but others are not—several of them I've never heard of anyone else having to read, and some have since fallen out of fashion (so, *not* really "the kind that everyone must read"). 9th grade: *Ivanhoe*, *Oliver Twist, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night* 10th grade (which was American Lit)*: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Babbitt, The Great Gatsby, The Catcher in the Rye.* Also some plays, including *Death of a Salesman, The Glass Menagerie, Of Mice and Men* 11th grade (which was British Lit): *Beowulf,* some of *The Canterbury Tales, The Once and Future King, Jane Eyre, The Mayor of Casterbridge, A Man of Property, Hamlet, Macbeth, Brave New World* 12th grade: *The Heart of Darkness, Wuthering Heights, The Scarlet Letter, The French Lieutenant's Woman, East of Eden, Our Mutual Friend, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Barchester Towers* There may or may not be some others I'm forgetting. Plus a fair amount of short stories and poetry.

I had to Google what secondary school means, but apparently it means 9-12th grade (in the US, this is called high school) we read wuthering heights, fahrenheit 451, the scarlet letter (I hated this), a tale of two cities, great expectations (I loved this), to kill a mockingbird (probably the most universal American high school required book), lots of Shakespeare there are some common selections that students will read around the country, but it varies by school.

In my 9th grade English class we read, among other things: A Separate Peace by John Knowles Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M Auel Cry the Beloved Country (I forget the author) Tess of the D’Urbevilles by Thomas Hardy In my Satire class I remember that we read: Candide by Voltaire Letters From the Earth by Mark Twain

Ones I haven't seen listed already. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

There's lots of lists online; https://www.bishopfoxs.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/KS3-Reading-List.pdf https://www.st-pauls.org.uk/downloads/curriculum/book-recommendation-list---ks3---2022.pdf https://www.theappletonschool.org/subjects/english/ks3-reading-list https://www.ruisliphigh.com/assets/KS3-Recommended-Reading-List-.pdf?vid=4ecommended-Reading-List.pdf?vid=3 https://haybridge.worcs.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/HHS-Key-Stage-3-Reading-List.pdf

I don't remember much but the short list is slaughterhouse five, mother night, a passage to India, Madame Bovary, and a few Shakespeare plays like Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear.

You'll definitely see some Shakespeare, like Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth. Also, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Night by Elie Wiesel, and Animal Farm by George Orwell are often read in high school.

Pride and Prejudice

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

I was in the US. Other English speaking countries will vary but this is what I recall reading offhand for school between the ages of about 12-17. Canterbury Tales Jane Eyre Tess of the D'Ubervilles The Odyssey Heart of Darkness Fahrenheit 451 Beowulf Shakespeare (many of them over the years) Grapes of Wrath Of Mice and Men Catcher in the Rye The Scarlet Letter Huckleberry Finn We Have Always Lived in The Castle Oedipus The Crucible Animal Farm Lord of the Flies The Great Gatsby Also there was some poetry like works by Robert Frost and Dr. Seuss. And I forget the poet but The Charge of the a Light Brigade has always stuck with me. I will say a lot of these works are in older forms of English (a handful weren't even originally in English). So keep that in mind when picking what to read.

The Hatchet (in grade 7 though, not high school) The outsiders Romeo and Juliet Macbeth Hamlet Brave New World Lord of the Flies The Hobbit (i don't think this is commonly required but we read it as a class) Fahrenheit 451 The great gatsby The hunger games (not required at my school but I loved it as a teen and I think a lot of schools are reading it in class now) Short stories: The tell tale heart Flowers for algernon The most dangerous game (this one really stuck with me) Animal farm

In the US, and we don't have Secondary School, but split it up between Middle School (Grades 6-8; roughly ages 11-14) and High School (Grades 9-12; roughly ages 14-18). In my experience Middle School was a lot more "Whatever you want so long as it's grade level appropriate" with a few assigned books per year, like Night, by Elie Wiesel, but mostly it was some stuff like LotR, Dracula, and some Asimov collections, but also like a lot ton of junk food YA series, ones that come to mind being Cirque du Freak, Pendragon, The Bartimaeus Cycle, and Everworld. When it came to High School, basically everything was assigned (and that lack of freedom and self direction, really killed my motivation for reading for a long while after), and the ones I remember were Huck Finn, Wuthering Heights, Silas Marner, The Scarlet Letter, Othello, A Farewell to Arms, and Invisible Man (Ellison, not Wells).

In high school I read a lot of Shakespeare (comedies=good, historicals=ghastly boring, sonnets=what is the point), a lot of William Faulkner (haaaaated it, avoid at all costs), Ernest Hemingway (almost as bad as Faulkner), James Joyce, Toni Morrison, *All Quiet on the Western Front, Lord of the Flies, Fahrenheit 451, 1984.*

1984, the handmaids tale, the catcher in the rye, to kill a mockingbird, Shakespeare for example Othello

I'm in Canada and in secondary school I remember reading Brave New World, Of Mice and Men, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Intensity by Dean Koontz, Macbeth, Dreamspeaker, The Colour Purple, Harrison Bergeron, The Chrysalids (actually I can't remember if that was middle school or high school but The Chrysalids is a very good book!), To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies (again i cant remember if that one was middle or high school), The Catcher in the Rye, The Most Dangerous Game, Different Seasons, Hamlet I took a few extra elective English classes because Literature and Creative Writing were both options

Some that I personally remember reading are: To Kill a Mockingbird Life of Pi The Great Gatsby (prepare to be bored as hell, in my humble opinion) Of Mice and Men The Grapes of Wrath The Giver Esperanza Rising Things Fall Apart Huckleberry Finn Othello

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In South Africa: (my personal experience) The Hatchet Buckingham Palace Life of pi The crucible The kite runner Master Harold And some more that i can't remember. Some of these are books from SA so they wouldn't make sense without context but they are a good nonetheless.

I don't think anyone's mentioned them yet, so I'll throw in the classics I remember reading in high school: The Illiad The Odyssey Beowulf

I am in the UK, Scotland to be exact. I was an extremely literary-minded teen so I read a lot of things on my own initiative, but as far as I can recall we were asked to read Shakespeare (the shorter more relatable works like Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth), Dickens, Jane Austen and some George Orwell like 1984 and Animal Farm. Also I’m sure PG Wodehouse was in the mix - he wrote comedic stories about a rich but dim-witted young man and his much cleverer manservant.

In the UK, a few of the books I remember reading at secondary school: A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Lord of the Flies by William Golding I also remember reading a couple of plays: Macbeth by William Shakespeare The Crucible by Arthur Miller

in the UK at least, you can't go wrong with Shakespeare. a lot of Shakespeare. other than that, we also studied some older texts such as Charles Dickens' works, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. i'd recommend looking up 'GCSE English lit texts' to get a good idea of we read at secondary school

At school we read Great Expectations, Of Mice and Men, A Streetcar Named Desire and Macbeth I enjoy reading the Series of Unfortunate Events series

Adding ones I don't think I've seen commented that were assigned reading at my school: A Raisin in the Sun (Lorraine Hansberry) Fences (August Wilson) Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston) Beloved (Toni Morrison; The Bluest Eye would have been another one of hers that could have been fairly widely read) Inherit the Wind (Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edward Lee) The Pearl (John Steinbeck)

Halo, I worked in the schools and here are a few I can recall ( American schools): - Black Boy by Richard Wright - Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate  -Year of the Dog by Grace Lin

The things I remember reading as a Canadian in high school: Fahrenheit 451 The Lottery, a short story by Shirley Jackson Flowers for Algernon Twelfth Night Hamlet (Note that Early Modern English, which is what Shakespeare is using, is not necessarily easy for high school students. Don't be embarrassed to read an annotated version that explains things in the footnotes.) Beowulf and Canterbury Tales (Translated into modern English. Native English speakers cannot read Beowulf in the original Old English. It might as well be German to us. Some native English speakers can read Canterbury Tales in the original Middle English if they go slowly and know a little bit about the history of the language.) We also read some local stuff that I do not remember and did not make that much of an impact on me, apparently.

I'm not a native, but I lived amongst natives during high school and sixth form. My GCSE material: Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck) A View from the Bridge (Arthur Miller) And excerpts from: A Passage to Africa (George Alagiah) Touching the Void (Joe Simpson) Chinese Cinderella (Adeline Yen Mah) The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini) Also tons of poetry, including those by WB Yeats, Shakespeare and Dylan Thomas. Apart from school reading material. I enjoyed recreational reads such as all the Harry Potter and Percy Jackson stuff when I was at the younger end, but when I was around 15-16 I started reading adult level material (e.g. and even lots of classical literature. People who study English Literature in sixth form (17-18) will even learn middle English such as Chaucer. My friends who studied Classical Civilisation read translations of Sophocles plays such as Oedipus the King and Antigone.

I agree with a lot of these titles! As someone said, it really depends on which state, county, or district you are in bc we all teach different things. If it helps, I am from the Mid-Atlantic, US. I cannot remember a lot of the books I read in Middle School, but I remember reading *The Diary of Anne Frank* *A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle* *The Giver by Lois Lowry* *The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton* *Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose* *The Lottery by Shirley Jackson* *The Hitch-Hiker from The Twilight Zone*

Percy Jackson and Goosebumps are popular

Firstly, in the US, where I live, we don't really refer to it as secondary school. We call the school between 11-14ish years old "middle school" and 14-18ish years old "high school". Second, the books we read here are really dependent on state and school district. HOWEVER, I just graduated middle school, here are some books I read in class over the past few years: - One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia - Booked by Kwame Alexander - The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros The short stories that we read include: - The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu - Norma by Sonia Sanchez - Fish Cheeks by Amy Tan - Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut - The Lottery by Shirley Jackson - It's That It Hurts by Tomas Rivera I also heard from my English teacher this year that we'll be reading Romeo and Juliet in high school.

To Kill a Mockingbird