I taught English at secondary level [11-18] for 30 years, from 1st year right up to A-level; but have been retired now for ¼-century. For some reason a train of thought led me this morning to trying to remember which books I taught over those years, worthwhile in literary terms*, were most popular and successful with the appropriate age-groups*.
*shall not endeavour here to analyse these categories ~ you all know what I mean
Ones which sprang most instantly to mind were Harold Brighouse's Hobson's Choice; John Wyndham's The Midwich Cuckoos; E Nesbit's The Railway Children; F Hodgson-Burnett's The Secret Garden; Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest; Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, Macbeth.
Any others found these particular works rewarding to teach? What has been the experience of other teachers, or others, in this connection?