All Informational and Anchored Readings
*Those in red are the outside readings that need to be purchased*
English 9 Common Core
Semester 1
An Essay on Plot
"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor
An Essay on Character Development
"The Chrysanthemums" by John Steinbeck
An Essay on Theme
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
An Essay on Symbols and Artifacts
"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker
An Essay on the Roots of Magical Realism
"The Nose" by Nikolai Gogol
An Essay on the Origins of the Gothic
"The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe
An Essay on Getting Comfortable with Poetry
Three Short Poems
An Essay on Meter Rhyme and Form
Three Short Poems
The Story of Daedalus and Icarus
Two Poems; One Painting
An Essay on Literature in Translation
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Part 1
"Letter to His Father" by Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Part 2
An Essay on Metaphor
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Part 3
Semester 2
An Essay on Shakespeare's Language
Macbeth by William Shakespeare Part 1
An Essay on the Supernatural and Shakespeare
Macbeth by William Shakespeare Part 2
An Essay on the Tragic Hero
Macbeth by William Shakespeare Part 3
An Essay on Logical Fallacies
An Essay from Beyond the Wall by Edward Abbey
"One Poor Harvest Away from Chaos" by Geoffrey Lean
"Lifeboat Ethics" by Garrett Hardin
"The School Days of an Indian Girl" by Zitkala-Ša (Gertrude Bonnin)
"An Indian Father's Plea" by Medicine Grizzlybear Lake
"Ain't I A Woman?" by Sojourner Truth
"After Being Convicted of Voting" by Susan B. Anthony
The Declaration of Independence and the Gettysburg Address
Nobel Acceptance Speech by Martin Luther King Jr.
Nobel Acceptance Speech by Elie Wiesel
"The Perils of Indifference" by Elie Wiesel
An Essay on Invasion Literature
The War of the Worlds by HG Wells
An Essay on Hoaxes
The War of the Worlds on the Radio
An Essay on Historical Context
Stories after the Fact
English 10 Common Core
Semester 1
"The Transaction" from On Writing Well by William Zinsser
"Astrophysicist Chronicles the Battle Over Pluto" by Melissa Block and Preface from The Pluto Files by Neil deGrasse
Tyson
"Go Ahead Persuade Me"
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (Act III Scene ii)
"What's Your Story?"
Excerpt from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller (Chapter 4)
"I Just Couldn't Put It Down!"
*American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang (Pages 7-106)*
"The Flat and the Round of It"
*American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang (Pages 190-233)*
"Watching the World from the Riverbank"
"A Visit of Charity" by Eudora Welty
"Five Stars for Literary Critics"
"To Build a Fire" by Jack London
"What Is Poetry?" by Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson
Various Poems
"Quick Guide to the Ramayana" from the British Library
Excerpt from the Kishkindha Kanda of The Ramayana by Valmiki and "Illustration of Sugriva Challenging Vali"
(Chapters 12-16)
Introduction to Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
*Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (Chapters 1-3)*
Excerpt from: Other People's Words: What Plagiarism Is and How to Avoid It by Barbara Francis
*Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (Chapters 4-7)*
"A Culinary Wasteland" by Cynthia Crossen
*Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (Chapters 8-10 and Epilogue)*
Semester 2
"Charting the Path"
Three Documents with Unique Organizational Schemes
"Simplicity" from On Writing Well by William Zinsser
"How to Jump-Start a Car Battery"
"Job Hunting" by Art Buchwald
Two Sample Cover Letters and Résumés
"Vertically Challenged Sanitation Engineer Wanted"
"President Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress 'On Indian Removal' (1830)" and "Samuel's Memory" by Michael
Rutledge
"Words Triumph Over Images" by Curtis Wilkie
Three Stories about Hurricane Katrina Told Through Different Media
"Dangerous Ideas"
"Top of the Food Chain" by T. C. Boyle
"Remembering Rosa Parks" by Jennifer Granholm
President Kennedy's Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort and "You Are Not Special" by David
McCullough Jr.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor's New York University 2012 Commencement Address
"Four Freedoms Speech" by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The Killers in Our Midst"
Nobel Lecture by Al Gore and "Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us" by Dan Pink
"Stake Your Claim"
Compulsory Voting: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
"Empathy"
"Veganism"
"Peer Evaluation"
English 11 Common Core
Semester 1
The Rhetoric of Revolution
Patrick Henry and Thomas Paine
Letter to Pickering: Why Jefferson?
The Declaration and Its Stylistic Artistry
Creating a System of Government
Tinker v. Des Moines
Poetry as the Person
Whitman and Dickinson
A Complex Portrait
"The Raven" and "The Philosophy of Composition"
"Self-Reliance" and Walden
"Resistance to Civil Government"
"I Sell a Dog"
Life on the Mississippi
Second Inaugural Address
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
“Oregon”
Diary of a Pioneer Woman
"The End of Something"
William Faulkner
The Pen and the Paradox
*The Great Gatsby, Part I*
Superficial Gatsby
*The Great Gatsby, Part II*
Semester 2
Interviews about the Great Depression
The Grapes of Wrath
Don't Crowd the Wheelbarrow
Modern Poets
Speaking of Symbolism
Stream of Consciousness Texts
"Speech on Civil Rights"
*A Raisin in the Sun, Part I*
"The American Promise"
*A Raisin in the Sun, Part II*
A Calm Reply to Hades
"Notes of a Native Son"
Vietnam
Vietnam Literature
"Fish Cheeks"
"Gravity"
"Red Jacket's Speech"
*The Way to Rainy Mountain*
"There Will Come Soft Rains" "The Last Wolf" and "Homework"
A Chapter from The World Without Us
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Bradbury and Vonnegut
"The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine"
"Exhalation"
English 12 Common Core
Semester 1
An Essay about the Monstrous
A Book of the Odyssey
An Essay about Story Structures
Beowulf
An Essay about Monsters
Grendel
An Essay about the 14th Century
A Monk's Tale
Introduction to the Inferno
Dante's Inferno Part I
Artwork Inspired by Literature
Dante's Inferno Part II
Two Essays about Encounters
The Tempest
A Story about Language
The Tempest
An Essay on Interpretations
Interpretations of The Tempest
An Essay on Satire
"A Modest Proposal"
An Essay about Defoe and the 17th Century
Robinson Crusoe, Part I
An Essay about Imperialism
Robinson Crusoe, Part II
Semester 2
Introduction to Frankenstein
Frankenstein
An Excerpt from a Story
Frankenstein
An Essay on Scientific Development
Frankenstein
Historical Context in World War II: Part I
"Their Finest Hour"
Historical Context in World War II: Part II
Joseph Stalin's Radio Broadcast
Historical Context in World War II: Part III
Two Speeches by Franklin D. Roosevelt
Imperialist Attitude
"Shooting an Elephant"
A Visitor's Perspective
A Letter from China
Dueling Poems
A Room of One's Own
Build Backstory
*Life of Pi, Part One*
An Essay on Boundaries
*Life of Pi, Part Two*
Truth in Fiction
*Life of Pi, Part Three*