What do you read in America...??

Question

In America,what do you read in English Literature for the USA equivalent of a GCSE(an education certificate you get aged 16 in the UK) and A-Level(an education certificate you get aged 18 in the UK)?

Answer 1

Well, there are two ways to complete compulsory education in the USA: a high school diploma, received after twelfth grade (usually age 17 or 18) or a General Education Development (GED) test. The latter is usually considered undesirable by employers and completely unacceptable to any but public two-year colleges and for-profit tech schools. We do not have a GCSE equivalent, though it may be debated whether or not our educational system performs so poorly that our diploma students are on equal educational footing with GCSE-earners.

Typically to obtain a high school diploma, a student has to take four years of English classes. In the first two years, all students tend to take the same classes, but in the final two, they can opt to take writing-oriented classes instead of literature classes. The typical works read in the first two years include Lord of the Flies, Brave New World, To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men, and two Shakespearean plays per year. (The plays taught usually vary by school. My school covered Julius Caesar, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, and The Taming of the Shrew.) To get into a good college the student will want to take five units of English classes, meaning one year he or she will have to take two of them.

Answer 2

Clifford The big Red Dog.

<33