Required Reading 9th grade:
English I Level:
Students will select ONE of the following non-fiction novels:
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I Am Malalah by Malala Yousafzai
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Positive: Surviving My Bullies Finding Hope, and Living to Change the World by Paige Rawl
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Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
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Always Faithful: A Memoir of the Marine Dogs of WWII by William W. Putney
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An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield.
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The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream Reissue Edition by Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt, and Lisa Frazier Page
*Other various novels, drama pieces, short stories, and poems will be decided at a later date.
English I Pre-AP:
Romeo and Juliet-No Fear Shakespeare
*All other required readings will involve student choice from teacher-generated lists.
English II Level:
Night by Elie Wiesel
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
English II Pre-AP:
Night by Elie Wiesel
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (No Fear Shakespeare recommended)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
*Students will also read a dystopian novel of choice from a teacher-generated list.
English III Level:
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Student choice of one of the following:
Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Things They Carried by Tim OâBrian
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas
English III Honors:
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
English III AP:
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams OR Fences by August Wilson
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
English IV Level:
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (required)
Macbeth-No Fear Shakespeare edition (optional)
English IV Honors:
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Othello No Fear Shakespeare edition by William Shakespeare
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Kite Runner OR A Thousand Splendid Suns OR And The Mountains Echoedall by Khaled Hosseini
English IV AP:
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, a hard copy of this book is required,ISBN-10:0679732764 OR
ISBN-13:978-0679732761.
Note, this is NOT The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
Othello by William Shakespeare, prefer the Cambridge Student Edition,
ISBN-13:978-0521618762 side by side translations are not acceptable in class.
You must have a hard copy.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, electronic versions acceptable
The Kite Runner OR A Thousand Splendid Suns OR And the Mountains Echoed
all by Khaled Hosseini, electronic versions acceptable
Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, electronic versions acceptable, but feel free to use your copy from junior high if you still have it
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, you must have a hard copy, any version of this novella is acceptable
English IV DC:
Arguing About Literature by John Schlib and John Clifford-Try to get the first edition(2014). If you cannot, then get the second edition (2017). Do not buy the abbreviated online version. The book should be more than 1,000 pages. This is a primary text for the class, and you will need it for BOTH semesters. Get this book now over the summer. You should have it when school starts. This textbook is not optional.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury-any edition
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde-any edition
Inferno by Dante Alighieri-Longfellow translation
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster-any edition 2003 or later.
