I read it and saw several adaptations when I was in HS and then on tv and at local theater productions.

My daughter is in HS now and she wouldn't know it at all. The last thing she did in class (just this past week) was watch the new version of Roots.

She hasn't read a single classic, though she does read all the time

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In drama class, we did Our Town in the 8th grade.

I went to a NJ high school from 61 to 65. Never studied Our Town. We did Shakespere, David Copperfield and English Literature from Beowolf to present.
We read books like Moby Dick and Annapurna and The Scarlet Letter.

It truly made an impact on me.

Almost no work of literature is. Shakespeare as an author is, but not any one specific play. Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet are going to be the top three, but depending on the school, maybe one or two of those at best. If you do the sonnets, chances are very high that you'll do sonnets 29, 18, and 116, and perhaps some others.

I didn't read Our Town when I was in h.s. in the early '60s. Back then we had literature books, and if it wasn't in the book, we didn't read it, as we weren't going to be purchasing more things to read, and the school wasn't going to buy enough copies to lend to us. Our lit books had short stories, poems, and the occasional short novel. There was only so much room in them.

In reality, there are so many excellent works of literature, with more coming out all the time, schools are waging something of a losing battle to require students to read very many "classic" works.

... but she thought it was INCREDIBLY corny.