Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (Mr. Pellerin's favorite book)
Directions: Please peruse the list of major works and experiences. The school year is coming to a close, and I want to make sure I cover the work you are most interested in, as we are ahead of the game. Please have a conversations with your fellow classmates in this blog space. The sky is the limit! There are opportunities for reading choices, even beyond the list so do not be afraid to ask me. I will be using these responses as a guide as I plan the unit that follows Ibsen and Freaky Freedom.
Major Works:
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- Amadeus by Peter Shaffer
- Poetry group projects & poetry slam
- Compose Ibsen plays and performances
- Ibsen & Wilde Musical Mashups
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, or Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, Persuasion, or Emma by Jane Austen
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
- The Namesake or The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
- Native Son by Richard Wright
- If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
- Les Miserables or Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo
- Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, Othello, or Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare - We have performed scenes from Shakespeare. I have also had students create "musical" versions of the plays, incorporating popular music into the text
I want to read Hamlet, Mrs. Dalloway, and Pride and Prejudice.
ReplyDeleteI think it'd be interesting to read Pride and Prejudice or Mrs. Dalloway.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to read Hamlet or If Beale Street Could Talk.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to read Sense and Sensibility, Hamlet or The Namesake.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to read If Beale Street Could Talk or Hamlet
ReplyDeleteI'd like to read Pride and Prejudice and If Beale Street Could Talk.
ReplyDelete1.Mrs. Dalloway
ReplyDelete2. If Beale Street Could Talk
3. The Scarlet Letter
Hamlet, The Namesake, or Mrs.Dalloway
ReplyDeleteI'd like to read The Joy Luck Club or Their Eyes Were Watching God
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ReplyDeleteI'd like to read Mrs. Dalloway or If Beale Street Could Talk
ReplyDeletePride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, Hamlet
ReplyDelete- Ally
I would like to read Hamlet or Mrs. Dalloway
ReplyDeleteThe Stranger by Albert Camus
ReplyDeleteMrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
I want to read If Beale Street Could Talk, Mrs. Dalloway, or Pride and Prejudice.
ReplyDelete-Kathleen
DeleteI would like to read:
ReplyDelete1. Les Miserables
2. If Beale Street Could Talk
3. Frankenstein
I don't have much of an opinion, but was interested in Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and If Beale Street Could Talk.
ReplyDeleteI would like to read Pride and Prejudice, Mrs. Dalloway, or Hamlet.
ReplyDeleteThe namesake, If Beale Street Could Talk, their Eyes were talking god
ReplyDeleteThe Namesake, Mrs. Dalloway or If Beale Street Could Talk
ReplyDelete- ANna
The Namesake, Les Miserables, or The Stranger
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