KEY -- /////////- from Language and Literacy 2010 edition, 9th and 10th grade; /////////- from the Pearson Custom Library: Introduction
to Literature; /////////-from other Pearson resources; /////////- from PH series;////////// from resources not know whether Pearson/PH or not
//////////-- from Grey, Blue, Orange – Responding to Literature
9th grade literature – World Literature
WEST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL
Region
Short
Poetry/Hymn/Proverbs
Essay/letters/memoirs/speeches
Drama
Story/Myth/Epic/Fables
Old Man of the Temple –Narayan
Creation Hymn—Doniger (trans)
Imaginary Home Land –Rushdie
India
Like the Sun – Narayan
Gateman’s Gift –Narayan
Trail of the Green Blazer – Narayan
Night Hymn—O’Flaherty(trans)
To Indra from the Rig
Veda—scripture
1996 – Tagore
from the Bhagavad-Gita: The Yoga
of Knowledge—Prabhavananda
Games at Twilight—Desai
from the Ramayana: Rama and
Ravana in Battle
Islam and
Middle East
Judaism
from The Thousand and One Nights::
The Tale of the Anklet
from The Fisherman and the
Jinnee—Dawood (trans)
from The Rubayat: —
Khayyam
From the Ramayana
from the Masnavi:The Counsels of
the Bird—Rumi
from the Qur’an: The Exordium
Night
Daylight
Comfort
The Watch-Wiesel
The Washwoman- Singer
Before You Came-Faiz
Daily – Nye
Making a Fist – Nye
From the Book of the Dead:
Adoration of the Disk
A Pity. We Were Such a Good
Invention-Amichai
Nobel Acceptance Speech-Wiesel
Keep the Memory Alive -- Wiesel
China/Japan/
Asia
Africa
The Name--Megged
From the New Testament: The
Beatitudes
Pride – Ravikovitch
From the Old Testament: from
Ecclesiastes
What’s in a Name – Peng
The Clustering Clouds -- Toshiyori
Ah Bah’s Necklace--Lim
Love in the Air-Jin
Cranes -- Sunwon
The Seventh Man-Murakami
Two Kinds-Tan
Rules of the Game – Tan
Lillies --Ru
When I went to visit –Tsurayuki
One cannot ask loneliness – Priest
Jakuren
Was it that I went to sleep –
Komachi
Seventeen Syllables – Yamamoto
The Lady Who Was a Beggar—
China - Folk Tale
Benizara and Kakezara—Japan –
Folk Tale
The Pearl--Mishima
Walking Through the South
Mountain Fields-Li Ho
From Buddhist Scripture: The
Mustard Seed
All – Bei Dao
Also All – Shu Ting
Three Haiku-Basho (Japan)
The Clustering Clouds-Toshiyori
Blossom Viewing – Basho
Four Haiku—Basho
The old Pond – Basho
On This Road – Basho
A Village Without Bells – Basho
Poem on Returning to Dwell in the
Country – T’ao
Written on Behalf of My Wife—
Po
The Song of a Soldier’s Wife—
Dang/Phan – Vietnam
Sunset Colors—Hiroshi
A Chinaman’s Chance-Liu
The Madman -- Achebe
Civil Peace-Achebe
Bindeh’s Gift-- Easmon
The Rain Came--Ogot
From Sundiata:An Epic of Old Mali
– Naine
The Girl Who Can-Aidoo (Ghana)
The End of the World—Fang
Mussoco—Ribas—Angola
As the Night the Day—Nicol—
Uganda: The Baganda – Proverb
Liberia: The Jabo – Proverb
South Africa: The Zulu—Proverb
Ghana-: The Ashanti –Proverb
Nigeria: The Yoruba—Proverb
Tanzania and Kenya: The Masai—
Proverb
To the Earth—Ngoni
Homages to Orisha—Yoruba Nigeria
Dyaspora-Hyppolite (Haitian-American)
Glory and Hope – Mandela
From Facing Mount Kenya—Kenyatta
From A Dakar Childhood—Diallo--Senagal
The Desert Exile:The Uprooting of a
Japanese-American family
Letter to a Young Refugee from AnotherLam(Vietnamese-American)
The Year of the
Dragon – Chin
And the Soul
Shall Dance -Yamaguchi
from From Emperor to Citizen—P’u Yi
The Strong
Breed-Soinka
Latin America
Native
America
Sierra Leone
Six Feet of the Country—
Gordimer—South Africa
The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses—
Head--Botswana
The Censors-Valenzuela
And of Clay Are We CreatedAllende (Chile)
Only Daughter-Cisneros
Carmelo-Cisneros
Hamadi-Nye
Uncle Marcos – Allende
Tepeyac – Cisneros
The Street of the Canon--Niggli
Yoruba – Gonzalez-Wippler
No Dogs Bark—Rulfo—Mexico
The Form of the Sword—Borges-Argentina
Metonymy, or The Husband’s
Revenge—Queiroz—Brazil
The Night Face Up—Cortazar—
Argentina
Lather and Nothing Else—Tellez
A Very Old Man with Enormous
Wings-- Marquez
The Orphan Boy and the Elk Dog -myth
The guitar-Lorca Warm Heart
Contains Life-Vigil-Pinon
Ode to My Soul-Neruda
Tonight I Can Write-Neruda
Ode to Walt Whitman-Neruda
Ode to My Socks—Neruda-Chile
Ode to the Watermelon—Neruda
We are Many -- Neruda
Making a Fist-Nye
The Shoofly Pie-Nye
Fear-Gabriela Mistral
Peruvian Child-Mora
Mecienda/Rocking –Mistral
Seraphim, come—Cruz
Three Dawns—RabeariveloMadagascar
Time—Mistral—Chile
Poem—Marti—Chili
Fable—Paz--Mexico
The Process of Bolero--Cruz
from In Commemoration: One Million
Volumes-Anaya
The Conduct of
Life-Fornes
My English – Alvarez
Zoot Suit -Valdez
I would steal horses and old shirts
and new skins- Alexi anthology
Love poem and Slim CanyonSilko
On the Amtrak from Gostonto
New York City – Alexie
Simile--Momaday
The Way to Rainy Mountain-Momaday
There is a Longing –Chief George
A Celebration of Grandfathers –Anaya
The Talk – Soto
So MexicansAre Taking Jobs from
Americans – Baca
From Child of the Daark: The Diary of
Carolina Maria de Jesus--Brazil
Revisiting Sacred Ground-Momaday
West Valley Held Materials/Additional Material for Copy or Internet Access
Additional material to add above
Novels and Non-fiction
Kite Runner by Hosseini
A Long Way Gone by Beah
50 Essays
One-Hundred Years of Solitude
by Marquez
The Chosen by Potok
Night by Wiesel
When the Legends Die by
Borland
Things Fall Apart by Achebe
Joy Luck Club by Tan
The Pearl by Steinbeck
Cry the Beloved Country by
The Names: a Memoir by
Momaday (substitute)