Supplemental Reading: Chicopee High School
English Department
2005
*required during the year **summer reading
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English 9 |
English 10 |
English 11 |
English 12 |
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Fiction A Light in the Forest (E) Of Mice and Men* The House on Mango Street To Kill a Mockingbird* The Odyssey* Asian American Literature Cry, The Beloved Country Death Be Not Proud Dove Gallows Hill (E) Great Tales of Edgar Allen Poe I Know What You Did Last Summer (E) Jonathan Livingston Seagull Lord Jim (E) Roll of Thunder, Hear Me Cry Shane (E) The Contender (E) The Fellowship of the Ring The Giver (E) The Education of Little Tree Where the Red Fern Grows (E)
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Fiction Lord of the Flies* We Have Always Lived in the Castle Catcher in the Rye* Ellen Foster The Last of the Mohicans The Joy Luck Club And Then There Were None Fahrenheit 451 * or 1984* I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (E) Animal Farm* A Separate Peace Ethan Frome Ordinary People Flowers for Algernon I Am the Cheese Nine Stories by JD Salinger The Chocolate War* The Loved One
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Fiction The Red Badge of Courage The Old Man and the Sea The Great Gatsby * The Sun Also Rises The Bluest Eye Adventures of Huckleberry Finn* A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Native Son The Jungle Last of the Mohicans My Antonia The Bluest Eye Song of Solomon Sound and the Fury Invisible Man The Ox-Bow Incident The Perfect Storm Beloved The Sound and the Fury As I lay Dying The Scarlet Letter* or Moby Dick* Grapes of Wrath Fallen Angels Old Man and the Sea Catch 22 A Farewell to Arms In Cold Blood The Vietnam Reader Killer Angels Where are the Children? (E) |
Fiction Passage to India Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man A Tale of Two Cities Being There Beowulf* Bless the Beasts and Children Brave New World Breath, Eyes, Memorie Candide Crime and Punishment Cry, the Beloved Country Death in Venice Don Quixote Dubliners The Europeans Heart of Darkness Picture of Dorian Gray Frankenstein Grendel* Hard Times Heart of Darkness The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven Things Fall Apart Madam Bovary Murder on the Orient Express My Name is Asher Lev** Pride and Prejudice Siddhartha* Snows of Kilimanjaro Song of Solomon Spoon River Anthology The Canterbury Tales* The Five People You’ll Meet in Heaven (E) The metamorphosis The Stranger* The Things They Carried The Turn of the Screw Illusions Their Eyes Were Watching God Wuthering Heights All the Pretty Horses The Farming of Bones The Once and Future King
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Drama Romeo and Juliet* West Side Story Twelfth Night A Midsummer Night’s Dream The Merchant of Venice The Odyssey
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Drama Julius Caesar* A Raisin in the Sun King Lear Medea Richard III Right You Are if You Think You Are
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Drama The Crucible* Death of a Salesman The Glass Menagerie A Streetcar Named Desire Hamlet* Our Town |
Drama Waiting for Godot Equus Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Macbeth* or Othello* The Tempest Taming of the Shrew Oedipus Rex Oedipus the King
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Nonfiction I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Edith Hamilton’s Mythology* When I was Puerto Rican Black Boy |
Nonfiction Almost a Woman The Color of Water* Maus I and II The Broken Cord |
Nonfiction Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Night Civil Disobedience Self Reliance Great Speeches FDR Into the Wild The Last days of Socrates (AP) Tuesdays With Morrie All God’s Dangers Souls of Black folk Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass or Hiroshima* Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself Survival in Auschwitz On Writing Abraham Lincoln: Selections from Great speeches Letters of a Nation Angela’s Ashes A Night to Remember Great Speeches Great Speeches by Native Americans In Pharoh’s Army The Things They Carried Walden |
Nonfiction George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” (required in APE 1) William Zinsser’s “Simplicity” (required in APE 1) Dorothy Guies McGuigan’s “To Be a Woman and a Scholar” Karl Popper’s “Violence and Utopia” Irving Janis’ “Groupthink” Utopia |
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