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