List of Approved Texts for REED schools – March 2011 YES = APPROVED; NO = NOT APPROVED Please note: 1. If you want to teach a piece of literature FOR THE LITERATURE LOG that is not on this list, it needs to be approved. Please send Avi an email. We will update the list accordingly, periodically. 2. If you wish to teach a piece of literature that you feel is worthy and appropriate for your students because of the theme, and it has NOT been approved, you may STILL teach it – however it can NOT be included in the LOG program – you can teach it outside the framework of the Literature Bagrut Log, as you always have done. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. Piece All American Slurp ,The All My Sons All Summer in a Day All the Years of Her Life Appointment with Love As I Grew Older Beware of the Dog Blanket, The Censors, The Chosen, The Chimneysweeper, The Clod and the Pebble , The Cookie Thief, The Count That Day Lost Country of the Blind Cynara Daffodils Devil and Daniel Webster, The Dusk Eldorado Elephant in the Room Eleven Elvis died at the Florida Barb Enemy, The Eveline Fog Funeral Blues Geraldine Moore the Poet Author Lensey Namioka Arthur Miller Ray Bradbury Morely Callaghan S.I. Kishor Langston Hughes Roald Dahl Floyd Dell Luisa Valenzuela Chaim Potok William Blake William Blake Valerie Cox George Eliot HG Wells Ernest Dowson Wiliam Wordsworth Stephen Vincent Benet Sakii Edgar Allen Poe Terry Kettering Sandra Cisneros Roger Dean Kaiser Pearl S Buck James Joyce Carl Sandburg WH Auden Toni Cade Bambara Genre story play story story story poem story story story novel poem poem story poem story poem poem story story poem poem story story story story poem poem story 4 points 5 points YES NO YES NO YES YES YES NO YES YES YES YES YES NO NO ? YES YES NO ? YES YES YES YES YES YES YES NO YES NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO YES YES YES NO NO YES YES YES Piece 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. Giver, The Grains of Sand Grandmother Hitchhiker, The Hope Human Family, The I know why the caged bird sings If Importance of Being Ernest, The Introduction to Poetry Lady Or the Tiger, The Lady Windemere's Fan Lamb to the Slaughter Leave Taking, The Lie, The Life is Sweet for Kumansenu Lord of the Flies (not abridged) Lottery, The Macbeth Marigolds Maud Miller Mending Wall Merchant of Venice Midsummer's Night Dream Miracle Worker, The Modern Millionaire ,A Monkey's , The Moustache, The Mr. Know All Musee De Beaux Arts My Papa's Waltz My secret world of idiom Necklace, The Night O Captain My Captain Oranges Ozymandias Poison Tre ,A Priscilla and the Wimps Author Lois Lowry Shifra Shomron Sameena Shiraze Roald Dahl Emily Dickenson Maya Angelou Maya Angelou Genre novel novel poem story poem poem poem 4 points Rudyard Kipling Oscar Wilde poem play YES YES YES Billy Collins Frank Stockton Oscar Wilde Roald Dahl Ray Bradbury Kurt Vonnegut, jr Abioseh Nicol William Golding Shirley Jackson Shakespeare Eugenia W. Collier John Greenleaf Whittier Robert Frost Shakespeare Shakespeare Gibson Oscar Wilde W W Jacobs Robert Cormier Sommerset Maugham W H Auden Theodore Roethke James G. Thurber De Maupassant Elie Weisel Walt Whitman Gary Soto Shelley William Blake Jan Davis poem story play story story story story novel story play story poem poem play play play story story story story poem poem Essay story novel poem poem poem poem story YES YES YES No YES NO YES YES YES YES NO NO YES YES YES YES YES NO NO YES YES YES YES 5 points YES No YES NO YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES NO YES YES YES YES YES NO NO YES YES YES YES 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. 101. 102. 103. 104. 105. 106. 107. Piece Priscilla and the Wimps Prospective New Immigrants Rainbow, The Ransom of Red Chief, The Raymond's Run Author Richard Peck Adrienne Rich O' Henry Toni Cade Bambara Genre story poem poem story story Red Red Rose ,A Remorse is Memory Awake Richard Cory Richard Cory Road Not Taken, The Rules of the Game Sarah's Key Say this city has 10 million souls Seven Ages of Man Soft Voice of the Serpent Song Caruso Sang, The Sonnet 130 Sonnet 18 Split Cherry Tree ,A Stopping by Woods Story-Teller, The Summer's Reading ,A Thank You Ma'am To Kill a Mockingbird Treasure of Lemon Brown, The Trifles True Love Twelve Angry Men Tyger, Tyger Umbrella Man, The Unrest Cure, The Verger, The Visit to a Small Planet War Warning Warren Pryor We and They When I was One and Twenty Word, The Young, Dead Soldiers Do Not Robert Burns Emily Dickenson Edwin Arlington Robinson A.R. Gurney Robert Frost Amy Tan Tatiana de Rosney W.H. Auden poem poem poem play poem story novel poem Shakespeare Nadine Gordimer Patrick McCallum Shakespeare Shakespeare Jesse Stuart Robert Frost Saki Bernard Malamud Langston Hughes Harper Lee Walter Dean Myers Susan Glaspell Isaac Asimov Reginald Rose William Blake Roald Dahl Saki Sommerset Maugham Gore Vidal Pirandello Jenny Joseph Warren Pryor Rudyard Kipling A E Housman Emily Dickenson Archibald MacLeish poem story story poem poem story poem story story story novel story play story play poem story story story play story poem poem poem poem poem poem 4 points 5 points NO NO YES YES NO NO YES YES YES YES NO YES NO YES YES YES YES YES YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO NO NO NO YES YES YES NO YES YES YES YES YES NO YES YES YES YES YES YES NO YES NO NO NO YES YES YES YES NO NO YES YES YES NO NO YES Piece Speak, The Author Genre 4 points 5 points