Supplemental Reading: Chicopee Comprehensive High School
English Department
2005
*required during the year **required summer readings
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English 9 |
English 10 |
English 11 |
English 12 |
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Novels The Once and Future King Flowers for Algernon The Old Man and the Sea The Red Pony The Hound of the Baskervilles The Crystal Cave A Mirror for Witches A Separate Peace Call of the Wild Out of the Dust A Light in the Forest Great Expectations Mambo Kings Of Mice and Men** The House on Mango Street* To Kill a Mockingbird*
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Novels Lord of the Flies We Have Always Lived in the Castle The Last of the Mohicans The Joy Luck Club Fallen Angels And Then There Were None** Siddhartha The Bluest Eye (Pre-APE 10) China Boy (pre-APE 10) Bless Me, Ultima (pre-APE 10) Animal Dreams Fahrenheit 451 * or 1984* I Never Promised You a Rose Garden The Bell jar The Odyssey* The Great Gatsby (Pre-APE 10) |
Novels The Red Badge of Courage The Great Gatsby * The Sun also rises Huckleberry Finn* The Prince and the Pauper A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Catcher in the Rye The Awakening Native Son A yellow Raft in Blue Water Ethan Frome The Jungle Sea Wolf My Antonia Their Eyes Were Watching God* The Bluest Eye Song of Solomon Invisible Man** Beloved (H) Life in the Iron Mills (APE 1) The Sound and the Fury As I lay Dying The Scarlet Letter * or Moby Dick* The Lovely Bones** |
Novels The Grapes of Wrath The metamorphosis Beowulf* Wuthering Heights The Secret Sharer Far From the Madding Crowd The Return of the Native Frankenstein (APE 2) Grendel* Animal Farm The Turn of the Screw (APE 2) Cry, the Beloved Country Handmaid’s Tale* or Brave New world* Pride and Prejudice (APE 2) Heart of Darkness (APE 2) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (APE 2) The Things They Carried** Murder on the Orient Express * (S) Beloved (APE 2) Their Eyes Were Watching God (APE 2) |
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Drama Medea* Antigone* Romeo and Juliet* West Side Story Twelfth Night A Midsummer Night’s Dream The Merchant of Venice Oedipus at Colonus The Oresteia |
Drama The Crucible* Julius Caesar* or Othello* A Raisin in the Sun Oedipus* |
Drama Death of a Salesman Fences The Glass Menagerie A Streetcar Named Desire Suddenly Last Summer |
Drama Waiting for Godot (APE 2) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Macbeth* The Elephant Man King Lear (APE 2) Hamlet (APE 2) The Wild duck An Enemy of the People A Doll House (APE 2) Hedda Gabler J.B. No Exit (APE 2) The Piano Lesson (APE 2) The Tempest (APE 2) |
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Nonfiction Hiroshima* I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings* Selections from Edith Hamilton’s Mythology (refer to curriculum guide) To Be a Slave Black Like Me In Cold Blood Never Cry Wolf I have Lived a Thousand Years** |
Nonfiction Night** Voices from the Holocaust When I Was Puerto Rican Voices from Vietnam Abraham Lincoln: Selections from Great speeches |
Nonfiction Manchild in the Promised land Great Speeches FDR Into the Wild Tuesdays With Morrie All God’s Dangers Souls of Black folk** The Color of Water (APE 1) Woman Warrior: A Memoir of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (APE 1) Narrative of Frederick Douglass* Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (APE 1)
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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” |
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