Major Works, A Literary
Inventory: Grade 9
Title:
“Umi-aliloa”
Wind Gourd of Laamaomao
The True Stoy of Kaluaikoolau
“The Seekers”
Excerpts from Kamehameha and His
Warrior Kekuhaupio
From “Traditional Hawaiian Metaphors”
“Native HawaiianWomen’s Resistance to
Annexation”
Aloha Betrayed (excerpt) “Strangling
Hands on the Throat of a Nation”
From Oiwi No. 3: “Hookupu”
The House on Mango Street
“What You Pawn I Will Redeem”
“Spin” (from The Things They Carried
Author:
Samuel Manaiakalani
Kamakau
Moses K. Nakuina
Piilani Koolau (with Sheldon
& Frazier)
Herb Kawainui Kane
Stephen L. Desha
Lilikala Kameeleihiwa
Noenoe Silva
Noenoe Silva
Kuualoha Hoomanawanui
Sandra Cisneros
Sherman Alexie
Tim O’Brien
From Elements of Literature
The Odyssey
The Miracle Worker
“The Sniper”
“The Most Dangerous Game”
“A Sound of Thunder”
“The Birds”
“Poison”
“The lnterlopers”
‘Thank You, M’ am’
“Harrison Bergeron”
“A Christmas Memory”
“A Man Called Horse”
“The Gift of the Magi”
“Snow”
“The Necklace”
“The Cask of Amontillado”
“The Gift”
“Blues Ain’t No Mockingbird”
“Marigolds”
“American History”
“Helen on Eighty-sixth Street”
“The Scarlet Ibis”
“Valley of the Dead Air”
“Dirk’s Big Day”
“One Fish Story”
“Ka Ho’i Ana”
The Stoiy of My Life (excerpt)
Homer
William Gibson
Liam O’Flaherty
Richard Connell
Ray Bradbury
Daphne du Maurier
Roald Dahl
Saki
Langston Hughes
Kurt Vonnegut
Truman Capote
Dorothy M. Johnson
0. Henry
Julia Alvarez
Guy de Maupassant
Edgar Allan Poe
Ray Bradbury
Toni Cade Bambara
Eugenia W. Collier
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Wendi Kaufman
James Hurst
Gary Pak
Lois Ann Yamanaka
Alan Aoki
Alani Apio
Helen Keller
Helen and Teacher (excerpt)
‘Not Much of Me”
“With a Task Before Me”
“Two Letters”
“Choice: A Tribute to ML King”
“No One Ever Told Me Not to Dream”
“The Talk”
‘The History Behind the Ballad”
‘The Best Gift of My Life”
“Riding Is an Exercise of the Mind”
“Haven’t I Made a Difference!”
“The World is Not a Pleasant Place to Be”
“The Round Walls of Home”
“The Loophole of Retreat”
“An Indian’s Views of Indian Affairs”
“Darkness at Noon”
“Homeless”
“Misspelling”
“Those Who Don’t”
Joseph P. Lash
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln and Bedell
Alice Walker
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Gary Soto
Taylor Brunch
Cynthia Rylant
N. Scott Momaday
James Herriot
Nikki Giovanni
Diane Ackerman
Harriet A. Jacobs
Chief Joseph
Harold Krents
Anna Quindlen
Charles Kuralt
Sandra Cisneros
SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL:
A Midsummer’s Night Dream
The Iliad (excerpts)
Inherit the Wind
Oedipus Rex
Catcher in the Rye
Animal Farm
Kotuku
Fish Cheeks
Champion of the World
The First Day
The Man to Send Rainclouds
Girl
Barbie-Q
Cathedral
Sister Godzilla
The School
Snow
Kamalo
Polynesian Genesis
From Waimea Summer
Dirk’s Big Day
William Shakespeare
Homer
D.H. Lawrence
Sophocles
J. D. Salinger
George Orwell
Deborah Savage
Amy Tan
Maya Angelou
Edward P. Jones
Leslie Marmon Silko
Jamaica Kincaid
Sandra Cisneros
Raymond Carver
Louise Erdrich
Donald Barthelme
Charles Baxter
Reverend A. Forbes
Herb Kawainui Kane
John Dominis Holt
Cedrick Yamanaka
“You Would Cry to See Waiakea Town”
“Birth of Sea and Land” (Kumulipo)
“Ocean of Understanding” (Essay)
“Ka Hoi Ana”
“One Fish Story”
Graham Salisbury
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D. Mahealani Dudoit
Alani Apio
Alan Aoki
“It Swims When You Sleep”
‘Valley of the Dead Air"
“Haumapuhia”
“Correspondence between Worlds”
‘The Setting Sun and the Rolling World”
“A Family Supper”
“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”
“Carving a Hawaiian Aesthetic”
From Death Blossoms
From Prison Writings, My Life Is My
Sundance”
“A Clean, Well-lighted Place”
“Everyday Use”
“Araby”
“To Build a Fire”
“Eats Shoots & Leaves”
“Eddie Would Go”
“Koolau the Leper”
Keola Beamer
Gary Pak
Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
Albert Wendt
Charles Mungoshi
(Zimbabwe)
Kazuo lshiguro (Japanese,
Naturalized British)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(Columbian)
D. Mahealani Dudoit
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Leonard Peltier
Earnest Hemingway
Alice Walker
James Joyce
Jack London
Lynne Truss
Stuart Coleman
Jack London
SUMMER READING:
Ancient Oahu
Boy: Tales of Childhood
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Siddhartha
The Devil’s Arithmetic
Ka ‘Olili The Shimmering
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in
Heaven
The Good Earth
My Antonia
Inivisible Man
Cry, The Beloved Country
Rabbit Run
Fomander and Thrum
Roald Dahl
Maya Angelou
Herman Hesse
Jane Yolen
Keola Beamer
Sherman Alexie
Pearl Buck
Willa Cather
Ralph Ellison
Alan Paton
John Updike