Supplemental Reading:  Chicopee Comprehensive High School

English Department

2005

*required during the year                                                                **required summer readings

English 9

English 10

English 11

English 12

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*

 

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)

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)

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)

 

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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