7-12 Reading Selections by Class 7 Grade

7-12 Reading Selections by Class
7th Grade (
Novels / Plays
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Driving Miss Daisy – Alfred Uhry
Freak the Mighty – Rodman Philbrick
Something Upstairs – Avi
Choice
Fiction
“A Christmas Hunt”
“The Right Kind of House”
Non-fiction
Poetry
)
8th Grade (
)
Call for Courage – Armstrong Sperry
Farewell to Manzanar (excerpt)
The Home Front: 1941-1945
The Wave
Von
Novels / Plays
Call of the Wild – Jack London
The Giver – Lois Lowry
White Fang – Jack London
Choice
Fiction
“Examination Day”
“Pompeii”
“Priscilla and the Wimps”
“Raymond’s Run”
“Stop the Sun”
“Survive the Savage Sea”
“The Kid Nobody Could Handle”
“The Lady or the Tiger?”
“The Manuscript of Dr. Arness”
“The Million Pound Bank Note”
“The Ransom of Red Chief”
“The Shortcut”
“While the Auto Waits”
Non-fiction
Poetry
Video
Anne Frank Remembered
Letters Home from Vietnam
Miracle at Midnight
Paper Clips
Rain
Richard Peck
Gary Paulson
Frank Stockton
Mark Twain
O. Henry
8th Grade (
)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
“The Time Machine”
Underground Railroad/Harriet Tubman ???? (Unit? Related Readings?)
Novels / Plays
Choice
Fiction
Non-fiction
Poetry
“Be the Best at Whatever You Are”
“Nothing Gold Can Stay”
“O Captain, My Captain”
“Paul Revere’s Ride”
“The Ballad of Birmingham”
“The Butterfly”
Videos
Dead Poets Society
Walt Whitman
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Billy Collins
English I (Junior High – Lynette Roll, Brad Hultz, Suzanne Dohm)
Novels / Plays
Night - Elie Wiesel
Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
The Odyssey (excerpt) – Homer
The Pearl - John Steinbeck
Fiction
“A Mother in Mannville”
“A Retrieved Reformation”
“A Sound of Thunder”
“Giving Blood”
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
O. Henry
Ray Bradbury
Roberta Silman
“Marigolds”
Eugenia Collier
“The Cask of Amontillado”
Edgar Allan Poe
“The Gift of the Magi”
O. Henry
“The Most Dangerous Game”
“The Necklace”
“The Open Window”
Richard Connell
Guy de Maupassant
Saki
“The Pedestrian”
Ray Bradbury
“The Princess and the Tin Box”
“The Scarlet Ibis”
James Thurber
James Hurst
“The Sniper”
Liam O’Flaherty
“The Stolen Party”
“Through the Tunnel”
“Where Have You Gone Charming Billy” (excerpt)
Liliana Heker
Doris Lessing
Tim O’Brien
Non-fiction
“A Trip to the Edge of Survival”
“An American Childhood” (excerpt)
“Blind to Failure”
“Fish Eyes”
“How Private is Your Private Life”
“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” (excerpt)
“The Privacy Debate: One Size Doesn’t Fit All”
Ron Arias
Annie Dillard
Karl Taro Greenfield
David Brenner
Andrea Rock
Maya Angelou
Arthur M. Ahalt
Drama/Speech
I Have a Dream
Sorry, Right Number
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Stephen King
Poetry
“The Raven”
Edgar Allan Poe
Video
American Lit (Junior High – Lynette Roll)
Novels / Plays
Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Choice
Fiction
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
“The Devil and Tom Walker”
“The Fall of the House of Usher”
“The Minister’s Black Veil”
“The Oval Portrait”
“The Red Badge of Courage” (excerpt – 5 pages)
“The Story of an Hour”
Ambrose Bierce
Washington Irving
Edgar Allan Poe
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edgar Allan Poe
Stephen Crane
Kate Chopin
Non-fiction
“Abraham Lincoln: The War Years” (excerpt)
“Civil Disobedience” (excerpt)
“Life on the Mississippi” (excerpt)
“Poor Richard’s Almanack” (excerpt)
“Self-Reliance” (excerpt)
“Speech in the Virginia Convention”
“The Autobiography” (excerpt)
“The Night the Ghost Got In”
“To His Excellency, General Washington”
“Walden” (excerpt)
Carl Sandburg
Henry David Thoreau
Mark Twain
Benjamin Franklin
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Patrick Henry
Benjamin Franklin
James Thurber
Phillis Wheatley
Henry David Thoreau
Poetry
Selections
“Song of Myself” (excerpt)
“The Raven”
“Think as I Think”
“To Helen”
“To My Dear and Loving Husband”
“Upon the Burning of Our House”
“War Is Kind”
Video
Emily Dickinson
Walt Whitman
Edgar Allan Poe
Stephen Crane
Edgar Allan Poe
Anne Bradstreet
Anne Bradstreet
Stephen Crane
American Lit (Tonya Miller, Dana Pruitt, Stacie Rossiter, Kate Schumacher, Brenda Stalder, Ellen Taylor)
12 Angry Men – Reginald Rose
A Separate Peace – John Knowles
A Wreath for Emmitt Till – Marilyn Nelson
Black Like Me – John Howard Griffin
Breathing Underwater – Alex Flinn
Catalyst – Lauri Halse Anderson
Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger
Diva – Daniel Odier (Delacorta)
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
In Another Country – Ernest Hemingway
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Our Town – Thornton Wilder
Speak – Lauri Halse Anderson
The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novels / Plays
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Choice
Fiction
“A Rose for Emily”
“A Wagner Matinee”
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
William Faulkner
Willa Cather
Ambrose Bierce
“The Garden Party”
Katherine Mansfield
“The Lottery”
“The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”
“The Outcasts of Poker Flat”
“The Story of an Hour”
“Trifles”
Shirley Jackson
Mark Twain
Bret Harte
Kate Chopin
Susan Glaspell
“Winter Dreams”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Non-fiction
Poetry
Video
Dead Poets Society
Great Ideas (Greg Altmix)
Novels / Plays
Othello – William Shakespeare
The Winter of Our Discontent – John Steinbeck
Twelfth Night – William Shakespeare
*Nonfiction
“A Room of One’s Own “
“A Witness at the Scopes Trial”
“Allegory of the Cave”
“Armies of the Night”
“Banting: Who Found Insulin”
“Civil Disobedience”
“Darwin’s Mistake”
“Dashiell Hammett”
“I Thought My Last Hour Had Come”
“In the Beginning”
“Love in a Concentration Camp”
“Love in the Desert”
“Of Civil Government”
“Of the Limits of Government”
“On the Origin of Inequality Among Men”
“Our Picture of the Universe”
“Pensees”
“Politics”
“The Art of War”
“The Battle of Stalingrad, Diary of a German Soldier”
“The Black Slave Driver”
“The Communist Manifesto”
“The Crowd Phenomenon”
“The Declaration of Independence”
“The Dilemma of Determinism”
“The Effects of Nuclear War”
“The Leopold and Loeb Case”
“The Magna Carta and Its Implications for Freedom”
“The Melian Dialogue”
“The Myth of Sisyphus”
“The Social Me “
“The Styles of Loving”
“What Love Is”
“Who is Man?”
“Why Americans Are Often So Restless”
“Why War”
“Why War” (correspondence)
*Some of the pieces above are excerpts
Virginia Woolf
Fay-Cooper Cole
Plato
Isaac Asimov
Paul De Kruif
Henry David Thoreau
Tom Bethell
Lillian Hellman
Futaba Kitayama
Robert Jastrow
Viktor Frankl
Joseph Wood Krutch
John Locke
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Stephen Hawking
Blaise Pascal
Aristotle
Sun Tzu
Anonymous
Randall M. Miller
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Thomas Jefferson
William James
Jonathan Schell
Clarence Darrow
Bert B. Beach
Thucydides
Albert Camus
William James
John Alan Lee
Robert C. Solomon
Loren Eiseley
Alexis de Tocqueville
Sigmund Freud
Albert Einstein
Fiction
“At Daybreak”
“Battle Royal”
“Desiree’s Baby”
“False Gems”
“Heaven and Earth in Jest”
“The Colonel’s Lady”
“The Interlopers”
“The Monkey’s Paw”
“The Star”
“The Veldt”
“The Wall”
“War”
Italo Calvino
Ralph Ellison
Kate Chopin
Guy de Maupassant
Annie Dillard
W. Somerset Maugham
Saki
W. W. Jacobs
Arthur C. Clarke
Ray Bradbury
Jean-Paul Sartre
Luigi Pirandello
Poetry
“Cargoes”
“Casey at the Bat”
“Cats in the Cradle”
“Dream Deferred”
“Dulce et Decorum Est”
“I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud “
“I Want To Hold Your Hand”
“I’ll Tell You How the Sun Rose”
“John Anderson My Jo”
“Lord Randal”
“Loveliest of Trees”
“Mending Wall”
“My Papa’s Waltz”
“Richard Cory”
“Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout & Sick”
“Silver”
“Song of the Chattahoochee”
“Sonnets 18”
“Stopping By the Woods On a Snowy Evening”
“The Day is Done”
“The Lady of Shalott”
“The Road Not Taken”
“The Shell”
“The Sound of the Sea”
“The Tyger”
“The Unknown Citizen”
“Threes “
“Yet Do I Marvel”
John Masefield
Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Jim Croce
Langston Hughes
Wilfred Owen
William Wordsworth
Beatles
Emily Dickinson
Robert Burns
Anonymous
A. E. Housman
Robert Frost
Theodore Roethke
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Shel Silverstein
Walter de la Mare
Sidney Lanier
William Shakespeare
Robert Frost
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Robert Frost
James Stephens
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
William Blake
W. H. Auden
Carl Sandburg
Countee Cullen
Junior Lit and Comp (Greg Altmix, Heike Bruner, Laurie Fiorenza, Nancy Moore, Brenda Stalder)
Novels / Plays
A Midsummer Night's Dream – William Shakespeare
Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
Choice Novels
1984 – George Orwell
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
If I Die in a Combat Zone – Tim O’Brien
Rain Maker – John Grisham
Shattering Glass – Gail Giles
Speak – Lauri Halse Anderson
Tears of a Tiger – Sharon M. Draper
The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
Where the Heart Is – Billie Letts
Fiction
“A Summer Tragedy”
“A Visit to Grandmother”
“Arthur Becomes King of Britain”
(excerpt from the Once and Future King)
“By the Waters of Babylon”
“Cat in the Rain”
“Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket”
“Cupid and Psyche”
“Damon and Pythias”
“Don Quixote” (excerpt)
“How Much Land Does a Man Need”
“Like the Sun”
“On the Rainy River”
“One Thousand Dollars “
“Prometheus and the First People”
“The Interlopers”
“The Leap”
“The Masque of the Red Death”
“The Monkey’s Paw”
“The Orphan Boy and the Elk Dog”
“To Build a Fire”
“Two Friends”
Bontemps
William Melvin Kelley
T. H. White
Stephen Vincent Benet
Ernest Hemingway
Jack Finney
Apuleius (retold by Sally Benson)
William F. Russell (retold by)
Cervantes
Leo Tolstoy
R. K. Narayan
Tim O’Brien
O. Henry
Olivia Coolidge (retold by)
Saki
Louise Erdrich
Edgar Allan Poe
W. W. Jacobs
Native American Myth
Jack London
Guy de Maupassant
Non-fiction
“A Toast to the Oldest Inhabitant: The Weather
of New England” (speech)
“The Chase”
“The Dog That Bit People”
“The Spider and the Wasp”
“The Sun Parlor “
“Going to the Movies”
“How to Write a Letter”
“9.11.01: The Skyscraper and the Airplane”
Mark Twain
Annie Dillard
James Thurber
Alexander Petrunkevitch
Dorothy West
Susan Allen Toth
Garrison Keillor
Adam Goodheart
Poetry
“A Basketball Season”
“Cats in the Cradle”
“Chicago”
“I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud “
“I’ll Tell You How the Sun Rose”
“John Anderson My Jo”
“Loveliest of Trees”
“My Papa’s Waltz”
“Richard Cory”
“Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout””
“Sick
“Silver”
“Song of the Chattahoochee”
“Sonnet 18”
“Sonnet 55”
“The Day is Done”
“The Road Not Taken”
“The Shell”
Video
Mel Glenn
Jim Croce
Carl Sandburg
William Wordsworth
Emily Dickinson
Robert Burns
A. E. Housman
Theodore Roethke
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Shel Silverstein
Shel Silverstein
Walter de la Mare
Sidney Lanier
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Robert Frost
James Stephens
Genre Studies (
Novels / Plays
Choice
Fiction
Non-fiction
Poetry
Video
)
Modern Novels and Current Events (
Novels / Plays
Choice
Fiction
Non-fiction
Poetry
Video
)
Technical Reading and Writing (
Novels / Plays
Choice
Fiction
Non-fiction
Poetry
Video
)
AP Language (Betty Anders)
Novels / Plays
Antigone – Sophocles
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
Julius Caesar – William Shakespeare
Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Choice
Fiction
Non-fiction
Poetry
Video
British Literature (Betty Anders,
Novels / Plays
Beowulf – Unknown
Dr. Faustus – Christopher Marlowe
Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
Hamlet – William Shakespeare
Macbeth – William Shakespeare
Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
Choice
Fiction
Non-fiction
Poetry
Video
)
World Literature (Maranda Meyer)
This is tentative due to the rearrangement of units. A final list will be made for the 2010-2011 school year.
Whole Class Novels:
Bride Price – Buchi Emecheta
Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse
The Epic of Gilgamesh (unknown)
The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
The Three-Inch Golden Lotus – Feng Jicai
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
Choice Selections:
Donna Rosenberg – retold prose versions of:
“Beowulf”
“King Arthur”
“Sigurd the Volsung”
“The Aeneid”
“The Odyssey”
“The Ramayana”
Chinese Cinderella – Adeline Yen Mah
Kaffir Boy – Mark Mathabane
Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
The Stranger – Albert Camus,
Troy – Adele Geras
Other Selections:
“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“Before the Law” – Franz Kafka
“Civil Peace” – Chinua Achebe
“Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“Marriage is a Private Affair” – Chinua Achebe
“No Witchcraft for Sale” – Doris Lessing
“Ophelia” – Arthur Rimbaud
“Snapshots of a Wedding” – Bessie Head
“The Artist” – Rabindranath Tagore
“The Bet” – Anton Chekhov
“The Bridegroom” – Alexander Pushkin
“The Bucket Rider” – Franz Kafka
“The Hunger Artist” – Franz Kafka
“The Iliad” – Donna Rosenberg (retelling)
“The Myth of Sisyphus” – Albert Camus
“The Overcoat” – Nikolai Gogol
“The Rain Came” – Grace Ogot
Oedipus the King – Sophocles
The Analects – Confucius (excerpt)
The Doll’s House – Henrik Ibsen (if time allows)
AP Literature (Nancy Moore)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare
A Thousand Acres – Jane Smiley
Hamlet – William Shakespeare
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
King Lear – William Shakespeare
Medea – Euripedes
Paradise Lost – John Milton
The Awakening – Kate Chopin
The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
The Plague – Albert Camus
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
All the Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy (Summer reading for ’10-’11 school year)
Choice Books
Atonement – Ian McEwan
Father Melancholy – Gail Godwin
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
Going after Cacciato – Tim O’Brien
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy (a substitute book)
Text: The Bedford Introduction to Literature, 6th edition