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As a German it's even more interesting to see what Americans read in school compared to us. Books like "The Metamorphosis" and "The Odyssey" were ones I had to read, too. And I know other classes read like "The Great Gatsby," "Lord of the Flies" and "1984."
In England it’s very varied from school to school as they only have to pick around 3 books from a wide list (a 19th century, a Shakespeare and a modern) for GCSE.
Edit: although a lot of the ones on the list are also in this video (personally, I did A Christmas Carol, Macbeth and An Inspector Calls. But also did other books on the list like Romeo and Juliet or Of Mice and Men in high schools in the years leading up to GCSE)
Yeah I agree, it seems every country and culture has different books and styles of education.
I just get jealous of american high schools (one of the very very very few things about america I ever get jealous about) because in my german class, we read a total of 8 books in what would be considered high school and a total of 3 books in english class and I just feel like I missed out on so much good reading material. I'm actually trying to catch up. By now I read 9 out of the books in the video, and only four of them for high school
We read bits of the Odyssey, but that was for World History. We did do the Great Gatsby, but none of the others. From what I remember, we did The Outsiders, The Hunger Games, The Pearl, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Go Set a Watchman, The Crucible, and Of Mice and Men
@@mackenziesapphire7554 I wouldn’t be jealous, I’m pretty sure no one truly reads these books in American high school. For instance I read as little of these books as possible to pass the classes, and I LIKED reading and was a relatively good student compared to a lot of my classmates
Scot pronouncing Circe's name as "serg" absolutely killed me
I guess the pigs were the performing animals at the Circe de Soleil
Guess he'd be the first to be turned into a pig XD
Technically it was pronounced “Cee-a-cee”
i cringed internaly
or as "Ker-kee"
3:13
I like how he shows a picture of Peter when he says "by Homer"
Gotta love how so many highschool books are downright depressing
This quiz is so much harder than actual high school English was
No, it wasn't. These are standard questions.
Wow this is really all you have to do in America?
There is not a single multiple choice question on any of our English papers in the UK.
We have 2 exams for literature, both with 3 essays, 2 of them worth 20 marks (compare an extract from the text you studied to another text and explore another moment in the text that also shows a similar idea) and one worth 40 (you get a choice of two questions), and you have to memorise quotations from 3 different texts and a set of poems, and there are also two literature papers, fiction and nonfiction and you have two unseen extracts for both that are thematically linked and you have to answer questions about both and also compare them, then you have to write either a fiction or nonfiction piece worth 40 marks and that is only 2 grades out of the 10 gcses you have to do andihavemocksinoneweekplshelp
@@jesfern American education varies between states and sometimes even towns and cities.
@@jesfern there is one multiple choice question on lang. paper 2 (non-fiction), assuming you do aqa? Also good luck on your mocks and real exams, lets hope this year isn't too mean on us!
no I think this is a pretty good example of hs English. the only difference is we wouldn't go through multiple books or topics at once
I know you’d pass piano class with flying colours!
So long as he doesn’t insert a riff into everything
Unless he has to create an original song
@Don't Read My Profile Photo Done. I didn't.
Wrong, you don't use colours, let alone flying colours, in piano classes.
@@HeriEystberg What if you have synaesthesia?
"By Homer" *proceeds to show a picture of Peter Griffin*
Every once in a while Daniel guesses the right answer.
Based on a chance alone one would expect 4/16 on average so 5/16 would be quite likely.
In fact given N questions with c choices for each the probability of answering n questions correctly by chance is:
P(n) = NCn * (c-1)^(-n) * ((c-1)/c)^N
where NCn is the binomial coefficient N over n ( = N! / n! / (N-n)! ).
With that we get the most probable situation where 4/16 are answered correctly has probability of P(4) = 22.52 % while answering 5 question correctly has P(5) = 18.01 %.
To be fair some of the wrong answers were the right answer.
I minored in English lit at university. My takeaway from this video is the American school system is obsessed with American literature, which the rest of the world only experiences through special episodes of sitcoms.
Well, is not like that is wrong, I'm from Chile and while we do have international literature (like Shakespeare) most of our spanish clases are national or at least south american literature. National literature also gives context of what a country was going through at the period of its writting and can leave a historic mark, so to speak...
George Orwell's 1984- English
Romeo and Juliet- English
The Odyssey- Greek
Lore of the Flies- British
Frankenstein- English
Metamorphosis- German
Hamlet- English
That is almost half of the books portrayed in the video, each of them from a nationality that isn't American.
And even then, why would it be bad to be 'obsessed' about American literature in American school systems? That's like saying Americans are 'obsessed' with American politics or American sports, it's from the place we are currently living in, of course we're gonna learn about it.
I love that you make a self depreciating joke, that instantly transitions into a sponsor for therapy.
The way he pronounced Circe’s name though 😂😂😂
Edit: for those who are confused, it’s pronounced sir-see. The “c” sounds like an “s”
Edit 2: okay fine, if the original Greek is Kirk, then he said all the other ones wrong since he said the western version. Either way something jarring happened and linguistics is complicated.
I was thinking the same thing 😂😂
I was curious to know how it was pronounced in English. I guess I still don't know lol
I thought I was the weird one. It’s cer-see right?😅
@@01s.61 Aye, it is ^^
serk
I... feel conflicted, because as someone who never had any mandatory reading when she was younger, doing book reports sounds like something I'd enjoy doing now, but I _know_ back then I'd also be like _'UGGGGHHH NO I DON'T CARE ABOUT ANY OF THIS'_
Hard agree. I had some mandatory reading, but none of these books. Now that I'm older, and looking to become wiser and more interesting, I'd love to read a lot of these books.
it's almost like being forced to read something you're not interested isn't a good way to cultivate interest in literature, and literary analysis is way more enjoyable when you're doing it on something you like!
as someone who loves reading, like I read hundreds of books in highschool alone... book reports are poopie doodoo butter 😮
I won't say no one is allowed to like them, but you would have to actually enjoy the report itself: which is doodoo poopie butter
@@ldkmelon
No, no, I'd say Sunroses has the right idea; analysis can be fun if you're _that_ engaged by the subject. I remember I wrote a 29-page retrospective on _Sonic Forces_ purely for no-one's benefit but my own and my friends'. Because despite how awful the game was, I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I just had to get my feelings out on the matter, _somehow._
To reiterate, Sonic Forces made me write 29 pages about it. _Sonic. Forces._ And I'd do it again.
@@Meteorite_Shower now go write twenty nine pages on something that you think is a 5/10. i didn't mean to say you can't enjoy writing about something, just that being forced to write about something can ruin it when you would've otherwise enjoyed it.
As someone who is failing English, I’m glad I’m not alone.
I cry every practice test I do and I can't even get my first point down, you are deffo not alone (I also spelt table as tabel not long ago so ik that I'm gonna fail my GCSE's) 🤩🤩
If you can speak and communicate in some form of wrighting then you passed English
@@biolinkstudios *when you spelled writing wrong* 💀
Me fail english? That's unpossible!
@@D4wnbr1ng3r you mean impassable? Wait that is is corrtec?
Fun fact, I have in fact drunk a drink named Tequila Mockingbird 🤣
If I makes you feel better, I'm an English Major and I've only (so far in the video) read The Giver (middle school), of Mice and Men (10th), Romeo and Juliet (9th). So honestly even I didn't ever read most of them.
As someone in 10th grade same
@@ked49 ye same 10th and ive only read r & j
Check out some of the other books, the ones I have read are great
It's interesting to hear that fiction doesn't stick for Daniel - I am the opposite way. I love hearing little perspective things like this!
Ficton > Real world
At least there i dont exist.
Ah yes, my favourite character in the Odyssey, 'Sirk' Also, I've only read one of these books for my english class (I'm from England and a lot of these are US classics whereas we do mostly Dickins and Shakespeare) WE DID READ OF MICE AND MEN THOUGH AND I GOT THAT RIGHT
This is very cool. To me, through your videos I see that you are bright and talented. In this quiz , you show that you can roll with mistakes and don’t have to be perfect. Maybe that’s how you got so bright and talented. 💡✨
Great example for all of us. Thank you! (Also I dreamt about you last night and so looked up a video to watch today and found this! 😆)
Daniel can never run out of crazy ideas to entertain us
I think Piggy's Glasses was the actual answer to the Lord of the Flies question
They both can, but the conch much more so. Only whoever is holding the conch gets to speak, so it creates some sort of structure among them instead of everyone shouting at once (order over chaos).
3:25 the name is pronounced: sir-see
sErK 😑
Came here to say that. 😂
Serk was painful to hear.
Not being a citizen of english speaking country and i still got some correct… feeling so proud XD
Good job. Most people I know wouldn’t get one right
@@ked49 by pure chance you should be getting at least a quarter of them
We were doing the Odyssey in my class recently, Circe is pronounced “sirsee…”
5:06 it's moral corruption. The reason Hamlet is considering committing the immoral act of killing his uncle is because his uncle is a terrible king and killed Hamlet Sr who had been a good king
I’m ashamed to say I haven’t read a lot of these, but Where The Red Fern Grows is one of my favorite books ever written. I fell in love with it when I was ten years old (I’m 15 now) and read it again last year when my dog died (RIP Tasch). I also read Of Mice and Men for the first time about a year ago. It’s fantastic. I saw the 1992 film with John Malcovich a couple days after reading the book, and was amazed at how closely it stuck to it. I mean they were practically identical.
It's funny, I first read it in school, but it wasn't assigned reading, I just read it on my own. We had a "reading" hour one year where after lunch we had to pick literally anything and read in silence for one hour. I didn't care much about reading at the time and my teacher has a mini library shelf in her classroom which was easier than going to the library, so I just grabbed that. Also where I first encountered Narnia.
I love the book of mice and men it’s definitely up there with my favourites
@@ForeverMasterless our classroom "library" is how I discovered Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, sadly I found book 2 first and read it before I knew it was book two of 3. lol
I could only answer questions about books I remember reading. And barely that 😅
3:36 “ Then I did a backflip. Broke the bad guys neck and saved the day”
"the odysey by homer"
daniel: puts picture of peter griffin
1:19 ALL HAIL THE MAGIC CONCH!!!
I can't believe how big your channels gotten. This vid has been posted for five minutes and there is 2K views! Keep up the good work.
What I find funny is that in my high school, out of all of those, the only one we ever worked on was Of Mice and Men. I think they might have done the other ones in the more "advanced" (ap) classes, but still weird. We did things like Edgar Allan Poe, The Help and Macbeth. Even Mockingjay at one point when it came out. I read The Giver series in my own time.
"The Odyssey. By Homer" *shows an image of Peter Griffin*
5:31 Winston! What a Legend!
2:23 when he says "dang" and the newspaper clipping shows up omg
3:13, Odysseus spends an entire decade sailing home from Troy despite Poseidon tormenting and delaying him while Penelope remains faithful to him throughout
How DARE you bring back my memories of Where the Red Fern Grows. All in all though, great video as always.
I read "The Giver" two years ago and even I didn't remember the color
I was waiting for Fahrenheit 451 or whatever that book was called cuz I feel like that’s a staple everywhere for literature
Dude plz do more of these!!!
Daniel at the start of the video:
Literature is important
Daniel at the end of the video:
Literature is… terrible
2:45, it’s about a human who turns into a bug without explanation
0:35
it's J. GODDAMN D. GODDAMN SALINGER
If you watched Bojack Horseman you would know that
Loved the part where Daniel did the thing
@@DontReadMyProfilePhoto_1 ok
2:00 I'm the very opposite of this, I *only* care about fiction
Though I don't really know most of those books
Bro I can’t just everything he makes is somehow funny 😂
I’ve always wondered this. Also Daniels still doing better than me lol
I Love These Types Of Videos!
Same
In Sydney 2000 - 2007, I remember we studied The Grapes of Wrath, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, lots of Shakespeare, and then lots of English novels. I remember North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell and I actually got it as a Xmas present and read the whole thing before semester started, unaware it would be a prescribed text. We also read Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, D.H Lawrence, Charles Dickens
It's by homer:
Shows Peter
As a Russian, I was quite surprised to guess a lot of them correctly, even though we barely touch any of the books in our school literature program. Probably just me loving fiction books, like 1984, also Soviet Russia had quite a bit of western book adaptations for TV, Huckleberry Finn being one of them. Enjoyed the video, thanks Daniel!
I couldn't answer SO many of these and I have a masters in English Literature. XD I mean, I got the Giver, Catcher in The Rye but only because that one was a multiple choice, To Kill a Mockingbird, Grapes of Wrath, Metamorphosis, Odyssey, Mice and Men, Huckleberry Finn, Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet. The only ones of those I ENJOYED were Giver, Odysseus, and Hamlet. (I'm sorry, but you will never convince me "Not where he eats but where is eaten" isn't one of the funniest lines in Shakespeare). I've never read Lord of the Flies, I know the themes but that's about it, I've read Red Fern Grows but have deliberately blocked as much of it as possible from my mind. I haven't actually read Frankenstein, which surprises me now that I realize it because I've read The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Dracula, so you think I'd have just gone for Frankenstein too. I've read Gatsby but could have never named the location of the manor, and have never read The Outsiders. However - I'm not convinced on this quiz at all. No Dickens (I can't be the only person who had to suffer Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations in Highschool)? No Poe? No Doyle? No Scarlet Letter or Crucible? (Look, I hated them but they're held up as these crucial books in High School English), or The Jungle (also awful, but I guess influential...)? Lighter reads like Austen? No Bronte? (Any of the sisters, though Wuthering Heights is the one that gets pummeled in from Emily, I prefer Jane Eyre by Charlotte).... I mean, fortunately, I didn't have to read Bleak House until college so at least most high schoolers are spared that. My Shakespeare class also VOTED for Titus Andronicus to be read which I don't know what was wrong with my classmates.
I got a good few of these! (I am currently reading Lord of the Flies)
I know that this vid was made 5 days ago, but I wanted to wish you a happy birthday Daniel! I really love your videos! They make me laugh so hard that I feel like I'm gonna wind up crying. Happy birthday!!!!🎈🎈🎈🎈💘
The fact I got so many of these right, even the ones I never read.
The Gatsby one was really easy for me though. That was just an instant answer for me.
"written by Homer"
*Puts an image of Peter Griffin up*
😂
So much of these questions are 100% expecting you to have literally just the read the book, and most the questions only pertain to the abstract, so they're up to date and can be interpreted different from the test-givers, or like...just...specific things that happen that don't make up the over-arching plot...
the way he say Jean Louise is amazing😂
I've read some of these, but there are so many that I can't imagine reading them all in school
As someone who actually just started reading Of Mice and Men in class, I think I’ve learned enough to ace any and all quizzes on the book from that segment.
I loved the Outsiders! It was one of my fav school books!
I knew most of those books!!!
The fact that he quoted Hamlet just shows how insane his mind is. Well done, Daniel!!
Love Daniel just going straight into get the to a nunnery
Where can I subscribe to the Daily newspaper that was pictured behind Daniel when talking about the Frankenstein?? Quality journalism right there.
As a Brit, not many of the books listed here are ones we have to read. Memorable ones we've studied include The Odyssey, I Am Malala, Farenheit 451, An Inspector Calls, Macbeth, Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde, A Christmas Carol and various war poems. Pretty interesting stuff actually
Indoctrination at its finest.
I'm Canadian and I think the only one of these that I read in high school was To Kill A Mockingbird. I read a few for my first year uni lit class though
We need a full version of the Lambulance
Friend: You're so smart! You must read so many books!
Me: I can't tell you what happens in any of the 16 books mentioned. I didn't read anything that wasn't required.
Don’t worry Dan, i didn’t get any of them right and I.. was homeschooled before high school and dropped out before my senior year. Also I haven’t went to college yet.
I’m in 10th grade right now, of all the books discussed here, I’ve only read a handful over the school years. Romeo and Juliet, Of Mice and Men, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Odyssey to be exact. It’s interesting to see which ones were and weren’t included in my teachers’ classrooms.
I’m surprised Daniel even went to high school 😂
I’ve read most of these except for the Giver, Lord of the flies…honestly the dystopias named. But still, thanks for the entertainment bro! Keep it up-you never fail to make me laugh!
"By Homer" *Peter Griffin gets in frame
Pulling up the picture of Peter Griffin when he says Homer may be the funniest thing I’ve seen all day
Happy birthday, Daniel.
I really want to see that video book report now.
The moment when you get the questions right on the books you haven’t read but wrong on the ones you have
Out of these, I only read Of Mice and Men and Romeo & Juliet. I remember also looking at Edgar Allen-Poe and a play, the name of which I can't remember. All I remember from this play was one of the characters yelling "FORTY SIX THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED TONS!" and my English teacher memed it to the point where 10 years later, I still remember it. I live in the UK for context.
The only books from this that I have read I ended up reading in junior high as opposed to in high school
I'm currently in 9th grade and my current English class just lets us pick what to read and let's us analyze it on our own. Literally every other 9th grade English class is reading the Odyssey, but we just get to read whatever we want as long as it is something that interests us
We need to see the insiders!
I LOVE THE OUTSIDERSSS
I read about 5 of these, 2 were middle school and 1 when I was 8. I remember Beowulf, Grendle and Watership Down from high-school mostly.
Most of these were never introduced to me in school, but I've heard of all of them except one before.
That tiny audio snippet when he said he was 11 being the intro to Jake and Josh - was hilarious
You gave ME a panic attack remembering I read Where the Red Fern Grows like ten years ago or so. THANKS.
I was in advanced courses and I can honestly say the only ones out of all these that we read in my high school were Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet
The fact I know like two things in this entire quiz…. O-O
as someone still going to school and taking English this hurts
My english classes never included books and i have gone through highschool basically.
ive read close to none of these and still got more right - im officially advocating for just guessing on tests
The movie "the giver" was quite good and I heard years ago they were gonna make a second one called "the receiver",we are now like a decade later...guess not lmao😅
there are like.. 3 books out. blue, the son and something else I think
@@hhill6142 never read the books yet🙂
9/16!!! I only missed ones from books I hadn’t read. Very excited.
Ok hold up. I read Of Mice and Men in high school and the theme of the American Dream was NEVER mentioned by anyone. Not even the teachers.
What? What did they talk about, then?
From most I have talked to people's favorite book from high school (school reading list) was The Giver and most people's favorite read outside of class...is the Hobbit. My favs were Fahrenheit 451 & Shakespeare. Ugh, least favorite was Of Mice and Men...
"Emphasis on 'Stupid'"
"This episode brought to you by counseling"
I don't think it's working
Basically his average in my book but not average in wrting skits the man is insane
Hey Daniel, big fan❤️
My though process for the Hamlet question went something like this:
“Uh, okay. I don’t know this I think. Isn’t The Lion King based off Hamlet? What does Scar do to the kingdom? Uhh none of these, but moral corruption seems close enough”
As a Brit the only two we studied at school were Of Mice and Men and Romeo and Juliet (yes other classes or years did do Hamlet I'm sure) and the only other one I've actually read is 1984, I've not even heard of half of these!
Fun fact about my experience with To Kill a Mockingbird. I barely read like 3 pages and still passed it by just taking what others said and assuming the rest