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West Valley 10th grade anthology list
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Name of Work
Name of
Author
Category
Hero of a Thousand
Faces
What is a Classic?
Prometheus and the
First People
Pyramus and Thisbe
from the Odyssey
part 1 and 2
Aristophanes
The Fox and the
Grapes
The Parable of the
Prodigal Son
On the Nature and
Elements of
Tragedy
Comparison of
Demosthenes and
Cicero
Antigone
Prologue through
Scene 2
Scenes 3 through
Scenes 5
from The Epic of
Gilgamesh
Prologue
The Battle With
Humbaba
The Death of Enkidu
The Story of the
Flood
The Return
Genesis , Man’s
Creation,
Temptation, and Fall
Genesis 6-9, The
Campbell
Non-Fiction
Coetzee
Retold Coolidge
Ovid
Homer
Non-fiction
Myth
Lysistrata
Aesop
Poem
Myths/Parables/folktales
The King
James Bible
Aristotle
Myths/Parables/folktales
Plutarch
Non-fiction
Sophocles
Drama – the protagonist,
antagonist, tragic character
Trans. Sanders
Epic
Short Story
Epic
Non-fiction
Scripture
1
Ancient
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1
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Ancient
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Ancient
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M.A.
2
M.A.
2
M.A.
2
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2
M.A.
2
M.A.
2
M.A.
2
M.A.
Story of the Flood
Psalm 8
Psalm 19
From the Iliad
From Book 1: The
Rage of Achilles
From Book 6: Hector
Returns to Troy
From Book 22: The
Death of Hector
From Book 24:
Achilles and Priam
From the Apology
Oedipus the King
Part I
Part II
From the Aeneid
from Book II: How
they Took the City
Carpe Diem
From the Annals:
from The Burning of
Rome
From the
Nibelungenlied: How
Sigfried Was Slain
Arthur becomes King
of Britain
from The Once and
Future King
from Connecticut
Yankee
Sir Launcelot du
Lake
The Crowning of
Arthur
From The Mists of
Avalon
The Acts of King
Arthur and His
Noble Knights
The Death of King
Arthur
From The Passing of
Jewish
Publication
Society
translator
Homer
Scripture
Plato
Sophocles
Philosophical
Drama
Virgil
Epic Poem
Horace
Tacitus
Poem
Nonfiction
Hatto
translator
Epic Poem
White
Myth/Legend
Twain
Malory
Myth/Legend
Parody
Myth/Legend
Malory
Myth/Legend
Bradley
Myth/Legend
Steinbeck
Myth/Legend
Malory
Myth/Legend
Tennyson
Myth/Legend
Epic Poem
2
M.A.
2
M.A.
2
2
M.A.
M.A.
2
M.A.
3
Ren
3
Ren
3
Ren
3
3
3
3
Ren
Ren
Ren
Ren
3
Ren
3
Rom
3
Ren
3
Ren
3
3
Ren
Ren
Arthur
From the Divine
Comedy:
Inferno
Canto I: The Dark
Wood of Error Canto
III: The Vestibule of
Hell
Canto V:Circle Two
Canto XXXIV: Ninth
Circle
Cantebury Tales:
The General
Prologue
The Miller’s
Prologue and Tale
The Wife of Bath’s
Prologue and Tale
The Parson
The Koran
Excerpts
Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight
from Don Quixote
The Tragedy of
Romeo and Juliet
From Midsummer
Night’s Dream
Winter
Death Be Not Proud
The Canonization
To the Virgins, to
Make Much of Time
The Argument of His
Book
Ode To a Grecian
Urn
Shall I compare Thee
to a Summer’s Day
When, in Disgrace
with Fortune and
Men’s Eyes
Ozymandias
Paradise Lost
Dante
Alighieri
Epic Poem
Chaucer
Chaucer
Poem
Religious
Trans Borroff
Myth/Legend
Cervantes
Shakespeare
Myth/Legend
Parody
Drama
Shakespeare
Drama
Shakespeare
Donne
Donne
Herrick
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Herrick
Poem
Keats
Poem
Shakespeare
Poem
Shakespeare
Poem
Shelley
Milton
Poem
Epic-- abridged and full
To the Lord General
Cornwell
A Little Learning is a
Dang’rous Thing
An Essay on Man
Epistle I
A Modest Proposal
Emile
In Flanders Field
The Kraken
Morte d’Arthur
The Tyger
Jerusalem (from
Milton)
The Lamb
How Do I Love
Thee? Let Me
Count the Ways
Milton
Poem
Pope
Poem
Pope
Essay
Pope
Rousseau
McCrae
Tennyson
Tennyson
Blake
Blake
Essay-Satirical
Essay
Poem
Poem
Myth/Legend
Poem
Poem
Blake
Elizabeth
Barrett
Browning
Poem
Poem
Rom
Oh, My Love is Like
a Red, Red Rose
Burns
Poem
5
5
5
Rom
Rom
Rom
Tennyson
Tennyson
Goethe
Poem
Poem
Drama
5
Rom
Wordsworth
Poem
5
6
Rom
Realism
Coleridge
Tolstoy
Poem
Short Story
6
Realism
Chekhov
Drama
6
Realism
Sur-realism
Realism
Realism
Realism
Modernism/
classicist
Modernism/
classicist
Modernism/
Break, Break, Break
Eagle
From Faust
Prologue in Heaven
From The First Part
of the Tragedy
The World is Too
Much With Us
Kubla Khan
How Much Does a
Man Need
The InspectorGeneral (comedy)
A Hunger Artist
Kafka
Short Story
After the Ball
A Problem
A Marriage Proposal
In Memory of
W.B.Yeats
O What is That
Sound
Untitled
Tolstoy
Chekhov
Chekhov
Auden
Short Story
Short Story
Short Story
Poem
Auden
Poem
Auden
Poem
3
Ren
4
Enlight
4
Enlight
4
4
5
5
5
5
5
Enlight
Enlight
Rom
Rom
Rom
Rom
Rom
5
5
Rom
Rom
5
6
6
6
7
7
7
7
7
7
classicist
Modernism/
classicist
Modernism/
classicist
Modernism/
classicist
Modernism
Modernism
Modernism
7
7
Modernism
Modernism
7
Modernism
7
7
7
To An Athlete Dying
Young
Sailing to Byzantium
Housman
Poem
Yeats
Poem
Easter 1916
Yeats
Poem
The Metamorphosis
Ithaka
From The
Interpretations of
Dreams
The Initiation
From the Prevention
Of Literature
Matryona’s Home
Kafka
Cavafy
Freud
Short Story
Poem
Nonfiction
Conrad
Orwell
Short Story
Essay
Solzhenitsyn
Short Story
Novels and Plays in WV Author
Inventory
1
1
1
1
2
3
Beowulf
Oedipus
Mythology
The Odyssey
Cantebury Tales
King Lear
3
The Taming of the Shrew
3
Julius Caesar
3
The Tragedy of Romeo and
Juliet
Hamlet
Macbeth
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Twelfth Night
The Tempest
The Merchant of Venice
Richard III
Othello
Candide
After the Ball
Great Expectations
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
4
6
6
Sophocles—abridged and full
Hamilton
Homer – abridged and full
Chaucer—abridged and full
Shakespeare—abridged and
full
Shakespeare—abridged and
full
Shakespeare –abridged and
full
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Voltaire
Tolstoy
Dickens
6
6
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
Crime and Punishment
One Day in the Life of Ivan
Denisovich
Animal Farm
Out of the Silent Planet
Lord of the Flies
Alls Quiet on the Western
Front
The Stranger
Fellowship of the Ring
Emma
Pride and Prejudice
Wuthering Heights
Dostoyevsky
Dostoyevsky
Orwell
Lewis --abridged
Golding
Remarq
Camus
Tolkien
Austen
Austen
Bronte