What students read around the world in literature classes

"War and Peace", "Woe from Wit", "Eugene Onegin" - these names are familiar to graduates of absolutely all Russian schools. Someone may even be able to continue the course of the unforgettable line "My uncle most fair rules ...».

A quote that students from other countries? < Website has studied school curricula and made a selection for you, which you can not only learn more about foreign schools, but also to open a few new names for themselves.





France in France, as in the vast majority of other countries, a separate subject "Literature" is not - the students read the lessons of the native language. School program as such either, there is a list of recommended literature, and the choice of works is given at the mercy of the schools, teachers and the children themselves. French classics read without fail, for example, the following books:

• «Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo
• «The Imaginary Invalid" by Jean-Baptiste Moliere
• "Germinal" by Emile Zola
• «The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• «Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert
  
  
  
  
  
  United States In the United States, as in France, there is no single school program in literature, but some names familiar to every American student. The five most popular books include:
  
  
  • «To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
  • «The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain
  • «Lord of the Flies" William Golding
  • «The Great Gatsby," F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • «The Scarlet letter" Nathaniel Hawthorne
    
    
    
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    United Kingdom In the United Kingdom with the school program in literature is simple: it is based on the works of the English classics. And as the English classics long and firmly became part of the classics of the world, the list recommended by British schoolchildren, for every person who reads will look very, very familiar. Here it is:
    
    
    • «Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
    • «Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
    • «Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
    • «Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
    • «Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte
    • «Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's stone" by JK Rowling < br>
      
      
      
      
      Netherlands Unlike peers from many other countries, Dutch students are not too bother reading classical literature. The list of recommended reading is more than half of the books of modern European and Dutch authors. Here are a few examples from the list:
      
      
      • «Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
      • «The Hunger Games" Susan Collins
      • «second chance» Philippe Pozzo di Borgo (by the way, the book shot super popular movie "1 + 1: The Untouchables»)
      • «Refuge. Blog letters »Anne Frank
      • « Praise of Folly "by Erasmus
        
        
        
        
        
        Germany In Germany, literary issues education students are settled in every federal state. But common items in the lists of recommended reading, of course, is, and is primarily a product of German authors and classics of world literature, such as the books:
        
        
        • «Nathan the Wise" Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
        • «Faust" by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
        • «All Quiet on the Western front" by Erich Maria Remarque
        • «The Old Man and the sea" by Ernest Hemingway
        • "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka
          
          
          
          
          
          Turkey first and main text that should know everything Turkish students - is the national anthem . In the schools of the Turkish Republic, he sung each day before the start of classes and is printed in many textbooks. During the lessons the students get acquainted primarily with the native literature and the literature of neighboring countries. Thus, Turkish students are reading:
          
          
          • tale "Kerem and Aslı»
          • Nasreddin Hodja jokes
          • Divan poetry
          • "Book traveler" Evliya Celebi
          • «The Bridge on the Drina" by Ivo Andric
          • «White steamer" Chingiz Aitmatov
            
            
            
            
            
            China-based Chinese literature classic novel is 4, which should read all of the students of China, as well as such a little familiar to Russian readers genres as zaju, T'ang poetry, historical chronicles, dynastic history, and much more. Here are some examples of recommended books to read:
            
            
            • «Judgement and conversation" Confucius
            • the classic novels "Three Kingdoms", "Dream of the Red Chamber", "Water Margin" and "Journey to the West»
            • T'ang poetry (the most well-known authors - Li Bai, Du Fu and Bai Juyi)
            • «How the steel Was Tempered" Nikolai Ostrovsky ul >
              
              
              
              
              
              Colombia Latin America gave the world the wonderful genre of magical realism and a whole galaxy of brilliant writers, who knows and loves the whole world. That Latin American writers and make up a large part of the list of literature that Colombian children are reading at school. In high school, she studied foreign classics. This is mandatory for every Colombian student book:
              
              
              • «One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
              • «The modest hero" Mario Vargas Llosa
              • « hopscotch "by Julio Cortazar
              • Pablo Neruda poems
              • « Don Quixote "by Miguel Cervantes
                
                
                
                South Africa The historical relationship with South Africa, the Netherlands and reflected on how to teach literature: South African students do not read the classics. .. The focus is on the books by contemporary authors, both African and American, European, Australian, etc. The list of the literature, which is obligatory for the final state exam include:
                
                
                • «Romeo and Juliet "by William Shakespeare
                • « Lord of the flies "by William Golding
                • « To Kill a Mockingbird "by Harper Lee
                • « Nothing but the truth "Edward Irving Uortisa < «grain of wheat» Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
                • «The Secret life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber
                  
                  
                  
                  
                  
                  
                  
                  
                  
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                  "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by JK Rowling
                  
                  
                  
                  
                  
                  
                  
                  
                  
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