High School Literature, 2012-2013
Read aloud books:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (critical response and stance)
A Separate Peace (interrelationships and self-reliance)
The Merchant of Venice (transformational thinking)
Things Fall Apart (leadership qualities)
Self-selected books: Students must choose one each quarter from their grade level, including one play, one novel, and one nonfiction choice.
Grade 9: “Inter-Relationships and Self-Reliance”
Anchor Text
Poetry
The Odyssey (novelized Lineage; Dance with My
version of an epic
Father Again; Ulysses;
poem) – AR level 10.3
Even Odysseus Yearns;
Calypso; Home at Last;
Tales of Brave Ulysses;
Carry On Wayward Son;
Homeward Bound
The Hunger Games
Sonnet 130
(novel) – AR level 5.3
A Separate Peace
On the Death of Friends
(novel) – AR level 6.9
in Childhood
To Kill a Mockingbird
(novel) – AR level 5.6
Romeo and Juliet (play)
– AR level 8.6
Night (nonfiction) – AR
level 4.8
Just a Girl; Nowhere
Man; Sympathy; What’s
to Become of the
Mockingbird; Night,
Death, Mississippi
Cats in the Cradle;
Parents Just Don’t
Understand
Out, Out; First They
Came for the
Communists; The
Parable of the Old Man
and the Young
Short Fiction
The Open Boat
Short Non-Fiction
Films
Astronomers Hit a
O Brother, Where Art
Homer with the Odyssey Thou; Smoke Signals
Most Dangerous Game;
The Lottery
The Lady, or the Tiger?;
The Tell-Tale Heart;
Phineas
Atticus’s article
Save My Kid from the
Hunger Games
The Green-Eyed
Monster that Lives in
Your Brain
Harper Lee Biography
from harperlee.com;
The Hunger Games
Study Finds Widening
Generation Gap
West Side Story; Titanic
10 Questions for Elie
Wiesel; Elie Wiesel on
the Atrocities in the
Sudan; A God Who
Remembers
Oprah and Elie Wiesel at
Auschwitz; Hotel
Rwanda
Most Dangerous Game;
Maus 1 and 2
Scottsboro: An
American Tragedy
(PBS.org); To Kill a
Mockingbird
Speeches
I Have a Dream
Adolf Hitler on Youtube:
Judaism is a Satanic
Power
Anchor Text
The Great Gatsby
(novel) – AR level 7.3
The Story of My Life
(nonfiction) – AR level
6.8
Anthem (novel) – AR
level 6.1
Poetry
On the Vanity of Earthly
Greatness; Polly;
Nothing Gold Can Stay;
Richard Cory; Boats
Against the Current;
Rusty Old American
Dream; Only in America;
Under My Thumb; A
Letter
Helen Keller (Langston
Hughes); Autumn
(Helen Keller)
Authority Song;
Warning; I Am Mine;
The Road Not Taken
Short Fiction
Gift of the Magi
Consecutive Version of
“The Frost Fairies” and
“The Frost King”
Harrison Bergeron
Short Non-fiction
The Roaring Twenties
Declaration of
Independence; Ayn
Rand at 100
Films
The Great Gatsby
Speeches
The Miracle Worker
Speech at the Sorbonne
Honoring Louis Braille
High School Literature, 2012-2013
Read aloud books:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (critical response and stance)
A Separate Peace (interrelationships and self-reliance)
The Merchant of Venice (transformational thinking)
Things Fall Apart (leadership qualities)
Self-selected books: Students must choose one each quarter from their grade level, including one play, one novel, and one nonfiction choice.
Grade 10: “Critical Response and Stance”
Anchor Text
Poetry
The Crucible (play) – AR Amazing Grace; Witch
level 4.9
Hunt
Short Fiction
A Retrieved
Reformation
Huckleberry Finn (novel)
– AR level 6.6
Hiroshima (nonfiction) –
AR level 8.4
Theme for English B;
Strange Fruit
Nagasaki Nightmare;
Hiroshima Nagasaki
Russian Roulette
The Ransom of Red
Chief; A&P
There Will Come Soft
Rains; If I Forget Thee,
Oh Earth
Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass
(nonfiction) – AR level
9.1
Of Mice and Men
(novel) – AR level 4.5
American Heartbreak
That Evening Sun
Eleanor Rigby;
Immigrant; One Friend;
Pink Houses
Still I Rise; Harlem: A
Dream Deferred; The
Ballad of Birmingham
All the King’s Horses;
After Twenty Years; The
Law of Life
The Stolen Party
A Raisin in the Sun
(play) – AR level 5.5
Black Elk Speaks
(nonfiction) – AR level
5.6
Short Non-fiction
Sinners in the Hands of
an Angry God; We
Aren’t Superstitious
A Modest Proposal
Films
Good Night, and Good
Luck
Hiroshima Bomb May
Have Carried a Hidden
Agenda; Remembering
Hiroshima & Nagasaki;
Atomic Bombing of
Hiroshima Press Release
The Dying Girl that No
One Helped
24 Hours After
Hiroshima (Youtube)
Speeches
Huckleberry Finn
Stand and Deliver
Speech in the Virginia
Convention; Ain’t I a
Woman
Field of Dreams; Of
Mice and Men
Necessary to Protect
Ourselves; Sand Creek
Massacre
A Raisin in the Sun
I Have a Dream; We
Shall Overcome
Bury My Heart at
Wounded Knee
I Will Fight No More
Forever
Anchor Text
The Taming of the
Shrew (play) – AR level
8.8
Poetry
Under My Thumb; Just a
Girl
Short Fiction
The Catcher in the Rye
(novel) – AR level 4.7
Preface to a TwentyVolume Suicide Note;
Pain Has an Element of
Blank; No Such Thing; A
Noiseless Patient
Spider; Who Wrote
Holden Caulfield?; Paint
it Black; Speedway
Pity This Busy Monster,
Manunkind; The Death
of the Ball Turret
Gunner; Anthem for
Doomed Youth; 1914;
Arms and the Boy;
Trench Duty;
Bombardment; The Dug
Out; Wirers; The I-FeelLike-I’m-With God on
Our Side; Rooster; The
Man He Killed
Do Not Go Gentle into
that Good Night; Dover
Beach; Conformity 451
This Sandwich Has No
Mayonnaise; I’m Crazy
All Quiet on the
Western Front (novel) –
AR level 6.0
Fahrenheit 451 (novel) –
AR level 5.2
On the Rainy River
Harrison Bergeron; The
Treasure of Lemon
Brown
Short Non-fiction
William Shakespeare
and Feminism; Chris
Brown and Rihanna: A
Teachable Moment
Wasted; Confessions of
a Young Anti-Feminist
Holden at Fifty
Films
10 Things I Hate About
You
Speeches
The Declaration of
Sentiments
Rebel Without a Cause
A Letter to the President All Quiet on the
Western Front
Pleasantville
Duty, Honor, Country
High School Literature, 2012-2013
Read aloud books:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (critical response and stance)
A Separate Peace (interrelationships and self-reliance)
The Merchant of Venice (transformational thinking)
Things Fall Apart (leadership qualities)
Self-selected books: Students must choose one each quarter from their grade level, including one play, one novel, and one nonfiction choice.
Grade 11: “Transformational Thinking”
Anchor Text
The Once and Future
King (novel) – AR level
7.4
1984 (novel) – AR level
8.9
Frankenstein (novel) –
AR level 12.4
Poetry
Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight
Short Fiction
The Acts of King Arthur
and His Noble Knights
Short Non-Fiction
We Wear the Mask;
Wake Up (It’s 1984)
Funeral Blues;
Prometheus
The Lottery; The Story
of an Hour
There Will Come Soft
Rains; The Birthmark;
The Weapon;
Rappacini’s Daughter;
The Monkey’s Paw
I Never Promised You a
Rose Garden (novel) –
AR level 6.7
My Dreams, My Works,
Must Wait Till After
Hell; The Crystal Gazer
The Yellow Wallpaper
What Is Schizophrenia?
Cold Sassy Tree (novel)
– AR level 5.3
Southern Man; Sweet
Home Alabama
A Rose for Emily; Fried
Green Tomatoes;
Desiree’s Baby
Regionalism and Local
Color Fiction: 18651895; The White-Trash
Scapegoat; Staggering
Along the Periphery
The Alchemist (novel) –
AR level 6.4
When I Heard the
Learned Astronomer;
Fate and Destiny
A Very Old Man with
Enormous Wings
What Is Alchemy?; Law
of Attraction and
Destiny
Films
First Knight
Speeches
Gettysburg Address
Pleasantville
The Scientist in Society
Jurassic Park
Rosalynn Carter's
Testimony:
Paul Wellstone Mental
Health and Education
Equity Act
Anchor Texts
The Chosen (novel) – AR
level 6.6
Poetry
The Thread; The Road
not Taken; Release;
Silence II
Cry, the Beloved
Country (novel) – AR
level 6.2
Jane Eyre (novel) – AR
level 7.9
City Johannesburg;
Prospective Immigrants
Please Note; Gospel
Sonnet 116; From the
Shadows
The Merchant of Venice
(play) – Book level 9.4
A Song of Sour Grapes;
I, Too, Sing America; Oh,
Father
Short Fiction
The Cask of
Amontillado; The
Monkey’s Paw; Lather
and Nothing Else
Short Non-fiction
Chaim Potok; The
Difference Between
Judaism and Zionism;
From Celebrities to
Zionists, Kabbalah an
Endless Source of Solace
Post-Apartheid South
Africa Enters Anxious
Era
Bertha Mason’s
Madness in a
Contemporary Context;
Characteristics of the
Byronic Hero
Jews in Italy
Films
Smoke Signals; Running
on Empty; The Chosen
Speeches
Cry, the Beloved
Country; Cry Freedom
Atlanta Compromise;
Gettysburg Address
Jane Eyre
High School Literature, 2012-2013
Read aloud books:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (critical response and stance)
A Separate Peace (interrelationships and self-reliance)
The Merchant of Venice (transformational thinking)
Things Fall Apart (leadership qualities)
Self-selected books: Students must choose one each quarter from their grade level, including one play, one novel, and one nonfiction choice.
Grade 12: “Leadership Qualities”
Anchor Text
Poetry
Things Fall Apart (novel) The Second Coming;
– AR level 6.2
The White Man’s
Burden; Paper in Fire; I
Am a Rock; Corners on
the Curving Sky
Animal Farm (novel) –
Bad Moon Rising;
AR level 7.3
Animal in Man
Lord of the Flies (novel)
– AR level 5.0
The Fellowship of the
Ring (novel) – AR level
6.1
The Grapes of Wrath
(novel) – AR level 4.9
The Chocolate War
(novel) – AR level 5.4
Gotta Get Away; Naked
Sunday; Devil Inside;
Sympathy for the Devil;
I Stood Upon a High
Place; Bleeder; Picture
of Childhood
Rivendell
The Ghost of Tom Joad;
Rain on the Scarecrow;
Modern Day Okies!;
Battle Hymn of the
Republic
The End of the
Innocence; Locked in
Conformity
Short Fiction
The Curse of the
Chameleon; Everyday
Use
Short Non-Fiction
Letter from a
Birmingham Jail
Films
Shooting an Elephant;
Allegory of the Cave
Russian Revolution of
1917; Scientists Unlock
Animal Intelligence
Why Boys Become
Vicious; A Boy the
Bullies Love to Beat Up
The Soviet Union
Chronicles: 1905-1924
(United Streaming)
The Hunger Games
Tolkien’s Impact in
Literature and Life
Hoosiers; The
Fellowship of the Ring
Organized Labor; Okie
Life in California;
Working Poor
The Grapes of Wrath
The Destructors
Too Soon a Woman; The
Devoted Friend; How
Much Land Does a Man
Need?
The Lottery
The Milgram Obedience
Experiment
Speeches
Address of Mayor
Angelo J. Rossi
Anchor Texts
King Lear (play) – AR
level 8.8
Poetry
All My Pretty Ones; I Go
Back to May 1937;
Daughters; Two Sisters;
On the Vanity of Earthly
Greatness
Alive (nonfiction) – AR
level 7.7
The Scarlet Letter
(novel) – AR level 11.7
The Island of Dr.
Moreau (novel) – AR
level 7.2
Othello (play) – AR level
8.4
One Flew Over the
Cuckoo’s Nest (novel) –
AR level 6.2
Short Fiction
The Emperor’s New
Clothes
Short Non-fiction
Adult Sibling and
Extreme Jealousy; A
Field Guide to
Narcissism
Films
Citizen Kane
To Build a Fire; The
Open Boat
Survival Instincts Put to
the Test; How
Cannibalism Works
The Price of Adultery in
Puritan Massachusetts
Rescue Dawn; I Am Alive
(Youtube); Apollo 13
Dissecting the Living;
The Stem Cell Debate
The Fly (1958 version)
Phenomenal Woman;
Mood to Burn Bridges;
Does Anybody Hear Her
Enter Sandman; Lullaby;
Voodoo; The Cross
Roads
To a Dark Moses
Young Goodman Brown;
The Outcasts of Poker
Flat
Legend of Sleepy
Hollow; The Fall of the
House of Usher
What We Talk About
When We Talk About
Love
Mother to Son; Miss
Rosie; Counting the
Mad; Brain Damage;
Pied Beauty;
Comfortably Numb
Miriam; Diary of a
Madman
Spanish History – The
Moor Period; Othello as
Tragic Hero; Interracial
Couple Denied
Marriage; Research
Pinpoints Risks for
Spousal Murder
Electroconvulsive
Therapy
Speeches
Sinners in the Hands of
an Angry God