In my gifted class, the senior summer reading list was one out of a list like Remembrance of Things Past, The Faery Queen, Ulysses (James Joyce)--not really thoughts that stick with you. More helpful were relatable stories like The Catcher in the Rye and Lord of the Flies (10th grade). If religion is allowed, The Screwtape Letters. Everyone knows LOTR, they could read the backstory, The Silmarillion. Great for an example of how hard it is to invent a whole cosmology. In sci-fi, The Ringworld is quite an epic.
Maybe save that for the gifted and talented class.... I did not have any trouble getting through it in my mid 20's. But then again, I can Read better/faster than most ppl.
Animal Farm, Orwell
1984, Orwell
Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn
Atlas Shrugged, Ann Rand
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Any Good Critical Thinking / Logical Thinking Book.
The audiobook is excellent. Read by Edward Herrmann.
In my gifted class, the senior summer reading list was one out of a list like Remembrance of Things Past, The Faery Queen, Ulysses (James Joyce)--not really thoughts that stick with you. More helpful were relatable stories like The Catcher in the Rye and Lord of the Flies (10th grade). If religion is allowed, The Screwtape Letters. Everyone knows LOTR, they could read the backstory, The Silmarillion. Great for an example of how hard it is to invent a whole cosmology. In sci-fi, The Ringworld is quite an epic.
Yes....for H.S, reading.
Ask them to stretch.
Read it in chapters, or even sections of chapters with discussions over each section read. It is extremely thought provoking.
If you think of how we digest the bible, it is concept by concept. So many books could be read this way.
Dune, by Frank Herbert is a prime example in the fiction genre.
John Steinbeck, in order of my favorites
The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men [This one will shock the socks off them]
East of Eden
Maybe save that for the gifted and talented class.... I did not have any trouble getting through it in my mid 20's. But then again, I can Read better/faster than most ppl.
On the Beach by Nevil Shute. Because this is how the world ends if we nuke ourselves.