State College Area School District
Secondary English Department
11th grade
Revised Booklist
2009-2010
Common/core titles or themes and/or authors which will be studied by all
English 11 and College Prep English 11students:
American Literature - Identity: Personal, National, and Cultural
Teachers of English 11 and C. P. 11 will teach one work from the following list:
Miller, Arthur
Lawrence, Jerome and
Robert E. Lee
Wilson, August
The Crucible
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
Fences
Teachers of English 11 and C. P. 11 will teach two works from the following
list:
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Grimes, Niki
Lee, Harper
O’Brien, Tim
Steinbeck, John
Steinbeck, John
The Great Gatsby
Bronx Masquerade (English 11 only)
To Kill a Mockingbird (until 2010-2011)
The Things They Carried
The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
Common/core titles or themes and/or authors which will be studied by all
Advanced English 11 students:
Teachers of Advanced 11 will teach one play from the following list:
Miller, Arthur
Lawrence, Jerome and
Robert E. Lee
Wilder, Thornton
The Crucible
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
Our Town
Williams, Tennessee
The Glass Menagerie
Teachers of Advanced 11 will teach two works from the following list:
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
The Great Gatsby
Hurston, Zora Neale
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Hemingway, Ernest
A Farewell to Arms
O’Brien, Tim
The Things They Carried
Steinbeck, John
The Grapes of Wrath
In addition, all College Prep English 11 and Advanced English 11 students will
study the works of the following American authors:
Dickinson, Emily
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Thoreau, Henry David
Whitman, Walt
Titles that may be used as required reading for full class instruction:
Kirszner, Laurie and
Stephen Mandell
Lunsford, Andrea A. and
John J. Ruszkiewiez
Prentice Hall (publ.)
Scott Foresman (publ.)
Angelou, Maya
Cather, Willa
Douglass, Frederick
Ehrenreich, Barbara
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Grimes, Nikki
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Hemingway, Ernest
Krakauer, John
Lawrence, Jerome and
Robert E. Lee
Lee, Harper
London, Jack
O’Brien, Tim
Simon, Neil
Sontag, Susan
Steinbeck, John
Patterns for College Writing
Everything’s an Argument
Literature: The American Experience
The United States in Literature
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
My Antonia
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Nickel and Dimed
The Great Gatsby
Bronx Masquerade
The Scarlet Letter
A Farewell to Arms
Into the Wild
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
To Kill a Mockingbird (until 2010)
Call of the Wild
The Things They Carried
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Regarding the Pain of Others
Of Mice and Men
Steinbeck, John
Wilder, Thornton
Williams, Tennessee
The Pearl
Our Town
The Glass Menagerie
Titles that may be used ONLY as optional/student choice selections:
Bennett, Jay
Chopin, Kate
Chute, Carolyn
Cormier, Robert
Crutcher, Chris
Garland, Sherry
Guterson, David
Hemingway, Ernest
Kerouac, Jack
Kingsolver, Barbara
McCarthy, Cormac
Morrison, Toni
Naylor, Gloria
Pelzer, David
Potok, Chaim
Randle, Kristen D.
Salinger, J. D.
Simon, Neil
Smiley, Jane
Steinbeck, John
Tan, Amy
Twain, Mark
Walker, Alice
West, Dorothy
Williams-Garcia, Rita
Wharton, Edith
Wright, Richard
Wright, Richard
Skinhead
The Awakening
The Beans of Egypt, Maine
The Chocolate War
The Crazy Horse Electric Game
Song of the Buffalo
Snow Falling on Cedars
The Sun Also Rises
On the Road
Animal Dreams
All the Pretty Horses
Beloved
Mama Day
A Child Called It
The Chosen
Breaking Rank
The Catcher in the Rye
Brighton Beach Memoirs
A Thousand Acres
East of Eden
The Joy Luck Club
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Color Purple
The Wedding
Like Sisters on the Homefront
Ethan Frome
Black Boy
Native Son
Thematic/Genre-Based Collections
Drama – The American Family
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Fences
The Glass Menagerie
African-American Literature
Beloved
Black Boy
The Color Purple
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas
Mama Day
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Like Sisters on the Homefront
Native Son
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Wedding
Multicultural Literature
Animal Dreams
The Chosen
The Joy Luck Club
Snow Falling on Cedars
Memoir
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas
American Classics (Novels)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Awakening
My Antonia
East of Eden
A Farewell to Arms
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Gatsby
Of Mice and Men
The Scarlet Letter
The Sun Also Rises
Award-Winning Works
Beloved (Nobel Prize for Literature)
Bronze Masquerade (Coretta Scoot King Award)
The Color Purple (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, National Book Award)
A Thousand Acres (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
East of Eden (Nobel Prize for Literature)
War Novels
A Farewell to Arms
The Things They Carried
Gender Issues
The Awakening
The Color Purple
Their Eyes Were Watching God
A Thousand Acres
The Scarlet Letter