Literally any book that you now dislike due to school. This also applies to other literature styles as well.
Mine is The Hunger Games. I had to read it las year in school and it drove me insane. We started doing the novel study in early February and didn’t finish until May. I finished the book in less than two weeks, so I was pretty much just reading personal books all through English class for close to two months.
It’s not even like we had to analyze it super intensely. It was projects like ‘Make a playlist for a character of your choice’ and we had vocabulary tests every week, that were a joke. It was multiple choice for words like quest and forage. I know that English wasn’t everyone’s first language but come on.
I didn’t even like the book that much in the first place, so all of this was just adding to the misery.
If I have to read Lord of the Flies one more time… I think I read that book once a year from about the seventh grade till graduation. I felt like some teachers assigned it simply to have something to do without much thought. It’s a great book, but I can’t read it anymore.
That book is the epitome of great idea/horrible execution.
Really? That’s so weird—were you moving around a lot or in the same school district? I enjoyed it when we read it, but our district (in which I now teach) has a list of “reserved” books by grade level. The books on the list aren’t required reading, but basically just saying that you can’t teach LotF any other year than 10th, etc., to avoid your exact situation.
This was me with Huckleberry Finn. I ended up reading Huckleberry Finn once a year for four years.