Pre-Qin prose, biographies, and foreign literary works suitable for middle school students

The following are the books required by the syllabus

Recommended books for extracurricular reading in junior middle schools (10 books)

1. "Journey to the West" by Wu Chengen

2. "Water Margin" by Shi Naian

3. "Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk" by Lu Xun

4. "Camel Xiangzi" by Lao She

5. "Stars· Spring Water" Bing Xin

6. "Robinson Crusoe" (English) Defoe

7. "Gulliver's Travels" (English) Swift

9. "Childhood" (Russia) Gorky

10. "How Steel Was Tempered" (Russia) Ostrovsky

Recommended books for high school extracurricular reading (20 books)

1. "The Analects of Confucius"

2. "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" Luo Guanzhong< /p>

3. "A Dream of Red Mansions" by Cao Xueqin

4. "The Scream" by Lu Xun

5. "Goddess" by Guo Moruo

6. "Midnight" Mao Dun

7. "Home" by Ba Jin

8. "Thunderstorm" by Cao Yu

9. "Besieged City" by Qian Zhongshu

10 , "Talking about Beautiful Letters" Zhu Guangqian

11. "Hamlet" Shakespeare

12. "Don Quixote" Cervantes

13 , "Goethe Conversations" Ekman

14. "Notre Dame de Paris" Victor Hugo

15. "Eugénie Grandet" Balzac

16. "The Pickwick Papers" Dickens

17. "Resurrection" Leo Tolstoy

18. "Selected Poems of Pushkin" Pushkin

20. "Selected Poems of Rabindranath Tagore" Rabindranath Tagore

In addition, there are "Selected Collections of Pre-Qin Prose" including "Zuo Zhuan" and "Guoyu" "Warring States Policy", "The Analects of Confucius", "Mozi", "Mencius", "Zhuangzi", "Xunzi" and "Hanfeizi", the ancient literature can only be seen in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. "Hundreds of schools of thought competed for their work, and nine schools of thought coexisted." Representatives of various schools of thought Characters wrote books one after another to promote their social and political views. The articles of various scholars have their own styles.

It plays an important guiding role in the formation of middle school students’ worldview. "The Analects of Confucius" is a must-read for high school students, and other prose works can also be read. You can also practice your proficiency in classical Chinese.