In high school, I remember Romeo and Juliet as a required reading in English class. For Filipino class that would be Ibong Adarna, Noli me tangere, and El filibusterismo. All of them I considered chores. Except, book reports because I can choose which ones to read.
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In high school our list of required English short stories and novels included:
01 – Julius Caesar
02 – The Most Dangerous Game
03 – The Hound of the Baskervilles
04 – Romeo and Juliet
05 – A Separate Peace
06 – The Pearl
07 – The Little Prince
08 – Lost Horizon
09 – A Tale of Two Cities
10 – Macbeth
11 – Catcher in the Rye
12 – Hamlet
13 – The Giver
14 – The Adventure of the Speckled Band
15 – Pygmalion
16 – Animal Farm
17 – Great Expectations
18 – Beaowulf
19 – Flowers for Algernon
I’ve probably missed a number of other titles, but this sums up the major stuff that really stuck in my mind. In hindsight, I don’t really regret reading most of them.
I can only recall Austen and Bronte from my English list… I had the same list as yours for Filipino, plus Florante at Laura… and this one about the correspondence between two sisters that i cannot, for the life of me, remember right now… it was a morality play i think…
Joanne Flores oh my, I forgotten to include Florante at Laura.
Eric Calica-Andrada that one’s easy to overlook as it was from the freshman curriculum