English I Literature Texts
Semester 1
“Music for My Mother” - Essay
A Quilt of a Country – Anna Quindlen
“The Immigrant Contribution” from A Nation of Immigrants by John F. Kennedy
“American History” – Judith Ortiz Cofer
“Rules of the Game” from The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
“The Cost of Survival” - Essay
“The Seventh Man” – Haruki Murakami
“The Logic of Survivor Guilt” – Nancy Sherman
“The Key to Disaster Survival? Friends and Neighbors” – Shankar Vedantam
“1963: The Year that Changed Everything” – Essay
“I Have a Dream” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Letter from Birmingham Jail” Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.” – Robert F. Kennedy
“For My People” – Margaret Walker
“Incident” – Natasha Trethewey
“Traveling from Just as I Thought” – Grace Paley
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Select One:
“Frank McCain Dies – Helped Start Sit-in Movement in Greensboro Lunch Counter” Jeff Tiberii & Carol Jackson
“How the Children of Birmingham Changed the Civil-Rights Movement” Lottie L. Joiner
“Sheyann Webb” from Selma, Lord Selma – as told to Frank Sikora
“The Many Lives of Hazel Bryan” David Margolick
Frannie Lou Hamer – BBC Video
Semester 2
The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet – William Shakespeare
The Chosen - Chaim Potok
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
Genesis 3
Gone and Back Again: A Traveler’s Advice – Jonathan Fuqua
The Hero’s Adventure – Joseph Campbell & Bill Moyers
Dream’s Winter – F. Scott Fitzgerald
By the Waters of Babylon – Stephen Vincent Benét
There Will Come Soft Rain – Ray Bradbury
The Nuclear Tourist – Nicola Ferguson
The Children of Knowledge – Deborah Ann
A Song on the End of the Word - Czeslaw
From Radiolab: War of the Worlds – Radio Broadcast/Orson Welles Producer
The Myth of War of the Worlds Panic – Jefferson Pooley & Michael Socolow
Select One:
Popocatepetl and Ixtlaccihuat - Juliet Piggot Wood
Annabel Lee – Edgar Allan Poe
What’s the Rush? Young Brains Cause Doomed Love – Lexi Tucker
William Shakespear’s Romeo & Juliet – Eli Neugeboren
If Romeo and Juliet Had Cell Phones – Misty Harris
Select One:
Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse – Ali S. Khan
The Secret Bunker Congress Never Used – NPR News Article
The End of the World Might Just Look Like This – Megan Gambino
Fire and Ice – Robert Frost
Perhaps the World Ends Here – John Harjo
A Visit to the Doomsday Vault – 60 Minutes
English I (Credit Recovery) Literature Texts
Semester 1:
“My English” - Julia Alvarez
“I Have a Dream” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The Invalid’s Story” - Mark Twain
Excerpt from “Silent Spring” - Rachel Carson
“Single Room, Earth View” - Sally Ride
Excerpt from “A White House Diary” - Lady Bird Johnson
“Play Hard; Play Together; Play Smart” - from The Carolina Way Dean Smith with John Kilgo
“The Washwoman” - Isaac Bashevis Singer
“The Red-headed League” - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“A Celebration of Grandfathers” - Rudolfo A. Anaya
Semester 2:
“Desiderata” - Elizabeth McCracken
“The Necklace” - Guy de Maupassant
“Dreams” - Langston Hughes
“Women” - Alice Walker
“The Interlopers” - Saki
“The Road Not Taken” - Robert Frost
“Slam, Dunk, & Hook” - Yusef Komunyakaa
“Daily” - Naomi Shihab Nye
“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” - William Wordsworth
“I Have a Dream” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The Necklace” - Guy de Maupassant
“I Hear America Singing” - Walt Whitman
“Maggie and Milly and Molly and May” - E. E. Cummings
“The Horses” - Edwin Muir
“Macavity: The Mystery Cat” - T. S. Eliot
“Rules of the Game” - Amy Tan (Joy Luck Club)
“The Scarlet Ibis” - James Hurst
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
English II Literature Texts
Semester 1:
"Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket" - Jack Finney
"View From the Summit" - Sir Edmund Hillary
"The Dream Comes True" - Tenzing Norgay with James Ramsey Ullman
“A Walk to the Jetty" from Annie John - Jamaica Kincaid
"Spring and All" - William Carlos Williams
"Fear" - Gabriela Mistral
"Damon and Pythias" - Classic Greek Myth
"How Much Land Does a Man Need?" - Leo Tolstoy
Excerpt from My Left Foot - Christy Brown
"A Visit to Grandmother" - William Melvin Kelley
"After Apple-Picking" - Robert Frost
"Mowing," - Robert Frost
"Style" - Maya Angelou
"At Harvesttime" - Maya Angelou
"The Apple Tree" - Katherine Mansfield
"Through the Tunnel” - Doris Lessing
"The Dog That Bit People" - James Thurber
“Conscientious Objector” - Edna St. Vincent Millay
"A Man" - Nina Cassian
"The Weary Blues" - Langston Hughes
"Jazz Fantasia" - Carl Sandburg
"Hearts and Hands" - O. Henry
"The Fish" - Elizabeth Bishop
"The Cabuliwallah" - Rabindranath Tagore
Excerpt from “Speak, Memory" - Vladimir Nabokov
"Games at Twilight" - Anita Desai
"The Bridge" - Leopold Staff
"The Old Stoic" - Emily Bronte
"Speech During the Invasion of Constantinople" - Empress Theodora
"I Am Not One of Those Who Left the Land" - Anna Akhmatova
"The Good Deed" - Pearl S. Buck
"Thoughts of Hanoi" - Nguyen Thi Vinh
"Pride" - Dahlia Ravikovitch
"The Widow and the Parrot" - Virginia Wolf
"Civil Peace" - Chinua Achebe
"How to React to Familiar Faces" - Umberto Eco
"The Bean Eaters" - Gwendolyn Brooks
"The Street of the Cañon" - Josephine Niggli
"A Storm in the Mountains" - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"In the Orchard" - Henrik Ibsen
"A Tree Telling of Orpheus" - Denise Levertov
Semester 2:
"The Open Window" - H. H. Munro (Saki)
"Leiningen Versus the Ants" - Carl Stephenson
“A Problem" - Anton Chekhov
"Luck" - Mark Twain
"There Will Come Soft Rains" - Ray Bradbury
"The Garden of Stubborn Cats" - Italo Calvino
"The Princess and All the Kingdom" - Par Lagerkvist
"The Censors" - Luisa Valenzuela
"The Marginal World" - Rachel Carson
Excerpt from The Way to Rainy Mountain - N. Scott Momaday
"Keep Memory Alive" - Elie Wiesel
"Flood" - Annie Dillard
"Mothers & Daughters" - Tillie Olsen and Estelle Jussim
"A Child's Christmas in Wales" - Dylan Thomas
"Marian Anderson: Famous Concert Singer" - Langston Hughes
"Star Wars—A Trip to a Far Galaxy That's Fun and Funny" - Vincent Canby
"Star Wars: Breakthrough Film Still Has the Force" - Roger Ebert
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
"The Stolen Child" - William Butler Yeats
"Cat's in the Cradle" - Harry and Sandy Chapin
"In Flanders Fields" - John McCrae
"The Kraken" - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Meeting at Night" - Robert Browning
"Reapers" - Jean Toomer
"Prayer of First Dancers" - Native American (Navajo)
"The Wind" - Emily Dickinson
"A Pace Like That" - Yehuda Amichai
"Metaphor" - Eve Merriam
"Right Hand" - Philip Fried
"La Belle Dame sans Merci" - John Keats
"Danny Deever" - Rudyard Kipling
"Jade Flower Palace" - Tu Fu
"The Moon at the Fortified Pass" - Li Po
"The Guitar" - Federico Garcia Lorca
"What Are Friends For" - Rosellen Brown
"Making a Fist" - Naomi Shihab Nye
"Some Like Poetry" - Wislawa Szymborska
"The Waking" - Theodore Roethke
"Sonnet 18" - William Shakespeare
Tanka - Priest Jakuren
Haiku - Matsuo Basho/Kobayashin Issa
Excerpt from Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
Excerpt from Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali - D. T. Niane
"Morte d'Arthur" - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Arthur Becomes King of Britain" - T. H. White
American Literature Texts
Semester 1:
“The Pedestrian” Ray Bradbury
“Truth, Said a Traveler” Stephen Crane
“Tell All the Truth, but Tell it Slant” Emily Dickinson
“The Declaration of Independence” Thomas Jefferson
“Life on the Mississippi” Mark Twain
“The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Mark Twain
“The Mesmerizer” Mark Twain
“A White Heron” Sarah Orne Jewett
“A Literature of Place” Barry Lopez
“Chicago” Carl Sandburg
“Wilderness” Carl Sandburg
“What a Factory can Teach a Housewife” Ida Tarbell
“The Crucible” Arthur Miller
“The US Constitution”
Speech by Benjamin Franklin
Visual Propaganda
“The New Colossus” Emma Lazarus
“America and I” Anzia Yezierska
“An Interesting Narrative” Olaudah Equiano
“Give me Liberty or Give me Death” Patrick Henry
Anti Slavery Proposal Benjamin Franklin
“Nature” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Self-Reliance" Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Walden” Henry David Thoreau
“Civil Disobedience” Henry David Thoreau
“Sweet Land of… Conformity” Claude Fisher
“Letter from a Farmer in Pennsylvania” John Dickinson
“A Brief History of the Short Story” D.F. McCourt
“Liberty” Julia Álvarez
“Dial Versus Digital” Isaac Asimov
“Letters to Abigail” John Adams
“Dear Abigail” Diane Jacobs
“The Gettysburg Address” Abraham Lincoln
“What, to the Negro, is the Fourth of July?” Fred
Semester 2:
“We as Women” Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"The Story of an Hour” Kate Chopin
"Mirror” Sylvia Plaht
“Self in 1958” Anne Sexton
“Mother Tongue” Amy Tan
“Everyday Use” Alice Walker
“Between Two Cultures” Smrithi Ram
“Any Human to Another” Countee Cullen
“La Relación” Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
“Of Plymouth Plantation” William Bradford
“The Indian and the Hundred Cows” collected by Juan B. Rael, retold in Spanish by José Griego y Maestas, and translate by Rudolfo A. Anaya
“Discovery of the New World” Carter Revard
“The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee” N. Scott Momaday
“Twelve Angry Men” Reginald Rose
“The Raven” Edgar Allen Poe
“The Raincoat” Ada Limón
“Mother to Son” Langston Hughes
“Song of Myself” Walt Whitman
“I hear America Singing” Walt Whitman
“On the Beach at Night Alone” Walt Whitman
“America” Walt Whitman
“I, too” Langston Hughes
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” Langston Hughes
“Refugee in America” Langston Hughes
“Dream Variations” Langston Hughes
“The Soul selects her own Society” Emily Dickinson
“The Soul unto itself” Emily Dickinson
“Fame is a fickle food” Emily Dickinson
“They shut me up in Prose” Emily Dickinson
"There is a solitude of space" Emily Dickinson
"I heard a Fly buzz - when I died" Emily Dickinson
"I'm Nobody! - Who are you?" Emily Dickinson
The Masque of Red Death" Edgar Allan Poe
"Everything Stuck to Him" Raymond Carver
“The Leap" Louise Erdrich
"The Road Not Taken" Robert Frost
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" Robert Frost
"A Wagner Matnee" Willa Cather
"Sympathy" Paul Lawrence Dunbar
"Tuesdays with Morrie" Mitch Albom
"The Milting of Granny Weatherall" Katherine Ann Porter
"Well Illustrated" Lynn Randolph
"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" Nathaniel Hawthorne
British & World Literature Texts
Semester 1:
“The Battle of Maldon” George Clark
“A World of Heroes” Homer, Sophocles, Herodotus
“Miracle on Hacksaw Ridge” Documentary
“Defending Nonviolent Resistance” Mohandas Gandhi
“Narrative of Sojourner Truth” Sojourner Truth
“To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars” Richard Lovelace
“The Charge of the Light Brigade” Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“The Charge of the Light Brigade” Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“Dulce et Decorum Est” Wilfred Owen
“The New Psychology of Leadership” Steve Reicher, Alex Haslam, Michael Platow
“Sermon on the Mount”
“The Canterbury Tales” Geoffrey Chaucer
“The Worms of the Earth Against the Lions” Barbara W. Tuchman
“On Seeing England for the First Time” Jamaica Kincaid
“XXIII From Midsummer” Derek Walcott
“Passenger Manifest for the MV Empire Windrush”
“Pride and Prejudice” Jane Austen
“The Assignment of My Life” Ruth Gruber
“A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” John Donne
“Holy Sonnet 10” John Donne
Psalm 137
“Jerusalem” Matisyahu
“Gulliver’s Travels” Jonathan Swift
“The Pilgrim’s Progress” John Bunyan
“A Modest Proposal” Jonathan Swift
“The Importance of Being Earnest” Oscar Wilde
“Victorian Times” Documentary
“Sonnet 43” Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Semester 2:
“Better to Have Never Met at All”
“Ozymandias” Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Why Brownlee Left” Paul Muldoon
“Man’s Short Life and Foolish Ambition” Margaret Cavendish
Ecclesiastes 1
“When God Spoke English: The Making of the King James Bible” Documentary
“The Lagoon” Joseph Conrad
“What’s Your Time Perspective?” Jane Collingwood
“If” Rudyard Kipling
“Polonius’ Advice” William Shakespeare
“Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young” Mary Schmich“
Mere Christianity” C.S. Lewis
“C.S. Lewis – The Hope Bringer” Documentary
“C.S. Lewis, Apologist” Article
“Early Dismissal”
“Tintern Abbey” William Wordsworth
“The Prelude” William Wordsworth
“Better Never to Have Met at All”
“Mrs. Dalloway” Virginia Woolf
“The Most Forgetful Man in the World” from Moon Walking With Einstein
“When Memories Never Fade, The Past Can Poison the Present”
“The Madeleine” from Remembrance of Things Past
“Time and Free Will” Henri Bergson
“The Portrait of a Lady” Henry James
“Home Away from Home”
“Back to My Own Country: An Essay” Andrea Levy
“A History of the English Church and People” Bede
“History of Jamaica” Clinton Vane Black
“St. Crispin’s Day Speech/Home Thoughts, From Abroad”