Calcasieu Parish
English Language Arts
Anchor Texts by Grade-Level
This list was developed based on the state and district scope and sequences, according to the textcomplexity standards set forth by PARCC.
Items in bold are readily available for classroom use in the district.
Items with an asterisk* are Appendix B Exemplars
9th Grade
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Bradbury, Ray- Fahrenheit 451*
Dickens, Charles- Great Expectations
Dickens, Charles- A Tale of Two Cities
Hamilton, Edith- Mythology
Homer-The Odyssey*
Lee, Harper- To Kill A Mockingbird*
Potok, Chaim- The Chosen
Shakespeare, William- Romeo and Juliet
Sophocles- Antigone
ten Boom, Corrie- The Hiding Place
Weisel, Elie- Night
Williams, Tennessee- The Glass Menagerie*
Zusak, Marcus- The Book Thief*
10th Grade
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Achebe, Chinua-Things Fall Apart*
Burns, Olive Ann- Cold Sassy Tree
Gaines, Ernest- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Golding, William- The Lord of the Flies
Pollan, Michael-The Omnivore’s Dilemma
Schlosser, Eric- Fast Food Nation
Shakespeare, William- The Tragedy of Macbeth*
Shakespeare, William- Julius Caesar
Shakespeare, William- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shaara, Michael- The Killer Angels*
Shelley, Mary W.- Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus
Sinclair, Upton- The Jungle
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Skloot, Rebecca- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Sophocles- Oedipus Rex*
Steinbeck, John- Of Mice and Men
Stowe, Harriett Beecher- Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Tan, Amy- The Joy Luck Club*
11th Grade
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Ackerman, Diane- The Zookeeper’s Wife
Ambrose, Stephen-Undaunted Courage
Barbery, Muriel- The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Boyle, T.C.- The Tortilla Curtain
Capote, Truman- In Cold Blood
Cather, Willa- O Pioneers!
Cullen, Jim- The American Dream
Faulkner, William- As I Lay Dying*
Faulkner, William- The Unvanquished
Fitzgerald, F. Scott- The Great Gatsby*
Hansberry, Lorraine- A Raisin in the Sun
Hawthorne, Nathaniel- The Scarlet Letter*
Hemingway, Ernest- A Farewell to Arms*
Hurston, Zora Neale- Their Eyes Were Watching God*
Melville, Herman- Billy Budd, Sailor*
Miller, Arthur- The Crucible
Miller, Arthur- Death of a Salesmen
Twain, Mark- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Wilder, Thornton- Our Town*
Wilkerson, Isabel- The Warmth of Other Suns
Wright, Richard- Black Boy*
Wharton, Edith- Ethan Frome
12th Grade
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Austen, Jane- Pride and Prejudice*
Bronte, Charlotte- Jane Eyre*
Chaucer, Geoffrey- The Canterbury Tales*
Christie, Agatha- Murder on the Orient Express
Junger, Sebastian- The Perfect Storm
Kingsolver, Barbara- The Poisonwood Bible
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Krakauer, John- Into Thin Air
Malory, Sir Thomas- L’Morte d’Arthur
Orwell, George- “Politics and the English Language” from All Art is Propaganda*
Shakespeare, William- Hamlet
Shakespeare, William- Othello
Shakespeare, William- King Lear
Shaw, George- Pygmalion
Swift, Jonathan- Gulliver’s Travels
Unknown author- Beowulf
White, T. H. - The Once and Future King
Wilde, Oscar- The Importance of Being Earnest*
The following texts have been moved to the middle grades on the state scope-sequence:
Avi- Nothing But the Truth
Hinton, S.E. - The Outsiders
Keyes, Daniel- Flowers for Algernon
Lowry, Lois- The Giver
Paulsen, Gary- Hatchet
London, Jack- Call of the Wild
Steinbeck, John-The Pearl
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