Core Course Titles of Works
2010-2018 Curriculum Review Cycle
(Revised, June 11, 2015)
North Allegheny School District
English Language Arts Department
Grades 6-12
Core Titles Forward
Core titles are literature titles that the teachers of each course agree they will
ALL teach assuring that every student in that course reads that particular piece of
literature. The purpose of having the list is:
1. To provide consistency across the district.
2. To assure that all students are exposed to a well-rounded literature
survey.
3. To prevent students from receiving the same literature instruction year
after year because teachers are unaware of what is taught in previous
courses.
The current consolidated lists reflect the Core Titles that will be taught in each
course beginning in 2011-12.
Antonio S. Caruso
English Language Arts Department Chair
Submitted June 11, 2015
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Core Course Titles of Works
Grade: 6
Course: Reading 6 (#0060)
Unit 1
All Summer in a Day (Short Story)
The Red Guards (from The Memoir Red
Scarf Girl) (Memoir)
Life Doesn’t Frighten Me (Poem)
On Turning Ten (Poem)
The Jacket (Essay)
The All-American Slurp (Short Story)
The Breadwinner (Novel)
Unit 2
from Spellbinder: The Life of Harry
Houdini (Biography)
The Good Deed (Short Story)
I’m Nobody! Who are You (Poem)
Is the Moon Tired? (Poem)
Mooses (Poem)
SuperCroc (Magazine Article)
What Video Games Can Teach Us
(Magazine Article)
The Violent Side of Video Games
(Magazine Article)
The Crane Maiden (Folk Tale)
Aunty Misery (Folk Tale)
The Cay (Novel)
Unit 3
from Woodsong (Memoir)
President Cleveland, Where Are You?
(Short Story)
Aaron’s Gift (Short Story)
Same Song (Poem)
Without Commercials (Poem)
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
(Storybook Parody)
The Village Blacksmith (Poem)
The Dog of Pompeii (Short Story)
Nadia the Willful (Short Story)
The Morning Walk (Poem)
There Is No Word for Goodbye (Poem)
The First Skateboard in the History of
the World (Memoir)
The Problem with Bullies (Feature
Article)
Tuesday of the Other June (Short
Story)
Scout’s Honor(Short Story)
No Thought of Reward (Speech)
Unit 4
Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World
(Longer Non-fiction)
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Core Course Titles of Works
Grade: 7
Course: Reading 7 (#0070)
Unit 1
Seventh Grade (Short Story)
Thank-you, Ma’m (Short Story)
If I can stop one Heart from Breaking
(Poem)
Rikki Tikki Tavi (Short Story)
Exploring the Titanic (Non-fiction)
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
(Drama)
The Outsiders (Novel)
Nothing Gold Can Stay (Poem)
Unit 2
The Three Century Woman (Short Story)
A Retrieved Reformation (Short Story)
An American Childhood (Non-fiction)
It was a Long Time Before (Poem)
Abuelito Who? (Poem)
The Wednesday Wars (Novel)
Unit 3
Dark They Were, Golden-Eyed (Short
Story)
A Day’s Wait (Short Story)
One Perfect Rose (Poem)
The Westing Game (Novel)
The Only Girl in the World for Me
(Memoir)
Breaking the Ice (Essay)
Song for an April Dusk (Poem)
Unit 4
What do you know about sharks?
(Non-fiction)
Pro Athletes’ Salaries Aren’t Overly
Exorbitant
Do Professional Athletes Get Paid Too
Much? (Editorials)
Great White Sharks (Magazine Article)
Unit 5
The Names (Poem)
The Earth is a Living Thing (Poem)
Sleeping in the Forest (Poem)
Gold (Poem)
Annabel Lee (Poem)
The Charge of the Light Brigade
(Poem)
The Highwayman (Poem)
Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not
Take the Garbage Out (Poem)
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Unit 6
Prometheus (Myth)
Orpheus and Eurydice (Myth)
Young Arthur (Legend)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
(Legend)
Waters of Gold (Folk Tale)
Icarus and Daedalus (Myth)
Phaethon, Son of Apollo (Myth)
Who Was King Arthur? (Legend)
Brer Possum’s Dilemma (Folk Tale)
Unit 7
Names/Nombres (Essay)
from It’s Not About the Bike
(Biography)
from 23 Days in July (Non-fiction)
The Noble Experiment (Biography)
Jackie Robinson Makes Headlines
(Biography)
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Core Course Titles of Works
Grade: 8
Course: English 8 (#1080, GOAL #1085, Appeal #1082)
Unit 1
Identity (Poem)
The Lesson of the Moth (Poem)
from Dreams from My Father (Memoir)
Out of Many, One (Speech)
Going Where I’m Coming From (Memoir)
My Father and the Fig Tree (Poem)
The Treasure of Lemon Brown (Short Story)
Rules of the Game (Short Story)
Chains (Novel)
Unit 2
Who Are You Today, Maria? (Short
Story)
The Story of an Eyewitness (Magazine
Article)
Letter from New Orleans: Leaving
Desire (Magazine Article)
Position On Dodgeball in Physical
Education (Position Paper)
The Weak Shall Inherit the Gym
(Essay)
Unit 3
The Tell-Tale Heart (Short Story)
Flowers for Algernon (Novella)
An American Plague: Yellow Fever
(Non-fiction)
Not My Bones (Poem)
O Captain! My Captain! (Poem)
I Saw Old General at Bay (Poem)
My Mother Pieced Quilts (Poem)
Call of the Wild (Novel) OR
The Giver (Novel)
The Monkey’s Paw (Short Story)
Paul Revere’s Ride (Poem) OR
Song of Hiawatha (Poem)
For My Sister Molly Who in the 50’s
(Poem)
Drummer Boy of Shiloh (Short Story)
Monster (Novel) OR
Soldier’s Heart (Novel)
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Unit 4
The Diary of Anne Frank (Drama)
Optional:
Parallel Journeys (Longer Non-fiction)
A Diary from Another World
(Newspaper Article)
The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank
(Interview)
I Saw Anne Frank Die (Newspaper
Article)
One Survivor Remembers Video
(Media)
Terrible Things (Allegory)
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Core Course Titles of Works
Grade: 9
Course: Essential English 1 (# 1209)
Unit 1
“The Rights to the Streets of Memphis”
(Nonfiction/Autobiography)
From “Rosa Parks”
(Nonfiction/Biography)
“Rosa” (Poem)
“The Most Dangerous Game” (Short
Story)
Monster (Novel)
Unit 2
“The Gift of the Magi” (Short Story)
“Luxury” (Poem)
The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet
(Drama)
Unit 3
“Hope is the thing with feathers”
(Poem)
“The Lost Boys” (Nonfiction/Essay)
“The Scarlet Ibis” (Short Story)
“I Have a Dream” (Nonfiction/Speech)
Of Mice and Men (Novella)
Unit 4
“The Tropics in New York” (Poem)
“Theme for English B” (Poem)
“How Private is Your Private Life?”
(Nonfiction/Article)
“Going to Japan” (Nonfiction/Essay)
“American History” (Short Story)
The Gospel According to Larry (Novel)
Audio Visual
“I Have a Dream” Speech
Of Mice and Men (Film)
Romeo & Juliet (Film)
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Core Course Titles of Works
Grade: 9
Course: Standard English 1 (#1409)
UNIT 1
The Necklace (Short Story)
The Cask of Amontillado (Short Story)
The Most Dangerous Game (Short
Story)
How Far Would You Go to Fit In?
(Nonfiction)
Inherit the Wind (Drama)
UNIT 2
Luxury (Poem)
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
(Drama)
Pyramus and Thisbe (Poem/Myth)
UNIT 3
Of Mice and Men (Novella)
The Scarlet Ibis (Short Story)
The Lost Boys (Nonfiction/Article)
Hope Is the Thing with Feathers
(Poem)
I Have a Dream (Speech)
UNIT 4
from Choices for the High School
Graduate (Nonfiction)
The Road Not Taken (Poem)
Seven Ages of Man (Poem)
Select 1
Frankenstein (Novel)
The Pigman (Novel)
The Gospel According to Larry (Novel)
Anthem (Novel)
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Core Course Titles of Works
Grade: 9
Course: Academic English 1 (#1509)
UNIT 1
Rosa (Poem)
Spending Spree (Nonfiction)
From Rosa Parks
(Nonfiction/Biography)
Rights to the Streets of Memphis
(Nonfiction/Autobiography)
Inherit the Wind (Drama)
Marigolds (Short Story)
The Necklace (Short Story)
The Cask of Amontillado (Short Story)
The Most Dangerous Game (Short
Story)
UNIT 2
The Gift of the Magi (Short Story)
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
(Drama)
Luxury (Poem)
Pyramus and Thisbe (Poem/Myth)
UNIT 3
Of Mice and Men (Novella)
The Scarlet Ibis (Short Story)
I Have a Dream (Speech)
The Lost Boys (Nonfiction/Article)
Blind to Failure (Nonfiction/Article)
Hope Is the Thing with Feathers
(Poem)
UNIT 4
The Tropics of New York (Poem)
Theme for English B (Poem)
How Private Is Your Private Life
(Nonfiction)
Going to Japan (Nonfiction)
Seven Ages of Man (Poem)
The Road Not Taken (Poem)
Select 1
The Gospel According to Larry (Novel)
Anthem (Novel)
A Separate Peace (Novel)
American History (Short Story)
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Core Course Titles of Works
Grade: 9
Course: Honors English 1 (#1109)
Gilgamesh
Genesis 1-3, 6-9
Fisherman and the Jinnee
From the Rubaiyat
From the Rig Veda
From the Mahabharata
From the Panchatantra
From the Tao Te Ching
From the Analects
Chinese poetry from T'ao Ch'ien, Li PO, Tu Fu
Japanese poetry from Ki Tsurayuki, Ono Komachi, Priest Jakuren,
Basho, Yosa Buson, Kobayashi Issa
From The Pillow Book
Novels: Lost Names and A Step From Heaven
Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet, Merchant of Venice
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Core Course Titles of Works
Grade: 10
Course: Essential English 2 (#1210)
Unit 1
Harrison Bergeron (Short Story)
The Possibility of Evil (Short Story)
Are You a Gossip? (Non-fiction)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Novel)
Unit 2
The Use of Animals in Biomedical
Research (Non-fiction)
12 Angry Men (Drama)
Tragedy of Julius Caesar (Drama)
The Interlopers (Short Story)
I Acknowledge Mine (Non-fiction)
Unit 3
The Race to Save Apollo 13, The
Impact of Meteors, and The Space
Lifestyle (Non-fiction)
In Cold Blood (Creative Non-fiction)
Unit 4
The Johnstown Flood (Non-fiction)
Doing Nothing is Something (Nonfiction)
Two Friends (Short Story)
The Chocolate War (Novel)
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Core Course Titles of Works
Grade: 10
Course: Standard English 2 (#1410)
Unit 1
Harrison Bergeron (Short Story)
The Possibility of Evil (Short Story)
Are You a Gossip? (Non-fiction)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Novel)
Unit 2
The Use of Animals in Biomedical
Research (Non-fiction)
12 Angry Men (Drama)
Tragedy of Julius Caesar (Drama)
The Interlopers (Short Story)
I Acknowledge Mine (Non-fiction)
Unit 3
The Race to Save Apollo 13, The
Impact of Meteors, and The Space
Lifestyle (Non-fiction)
In Cold Blood (Creative Non-fiction)
Unit 4
The Johnstown Flood (Non-fiction)
Doing Nothing is Something (Nonfiction)
Two Friends (Short Story)
The Chocolate War (Novel)
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Core Course Titles of Works
Grade: 10
Course: Academic English 2 (#1510)
Unit 1
Writing Unit—No Core Titles
Unit 2
Harrison Bergeron (Short Story)
The Man in the Waters (Non-fiction)
Tolerance (Non-fiction)
The Fish (Poem)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Novel)
Unit 3
The Use of Animals in Biomedical
Research (Non-fiction)
12 Angry Men (Drama) OR
LeMorte d’Arthur
Tragedy of Julius Caesar (Drama)
Unit 4
There Will Come Soft Rains (Short
Story)
Hunger Games (Novel) OR
The Inferno (Poem) OR
Into the Wild (Longer Non-fiction)
Inside the Home of the Future (Nonfiction)
Unit 5
Fahrenheit 451 (Novel) OR
In Cold Blood (Non-fiction) OR
Brave New World (Novel)
The Seventh Man (Short Story)
Fifteen (Poem)
Tonight I Can Write…/Puedo Escribir
Los Versos… (Poem)
The Pond (Poem)
Fourth of July Night (Poem)
The Red Wheelbarrow (Poem)
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Core Course Titles of Works
Grade: 10
Course: Honors English 2 (#1110)
Short Story
Novella-The Metamorphosis (Kafka)
The Fisherman and the Jinnee
The Panchatantra
The Lay of the Werewolf
Federigo’s Falcon
The Bet
The Happy Man
An Astrologer’s Day
Tribal Scars
The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe
Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Various short stories from World
Writer’s Today
The Artist
Poetry
Aenied (excerpts)
The Inferno (Cantos 1,3,4,34)
The Rubaiyat
Rig Veda/Upanishads
Iliad (excerpts)
Shanama (excerpts)
Substance, Shadow and Spirit
Song of Roland (excerpt)
Prologue in Heaven
Selections from various Japanese and
Chinese poets
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Psalms and Genesis (excerpts)
The Grail from Perceval
Non Fiction
The Prince
The Mahabharata (excerpt)
The Analects
The Pillow Book (excerpts)
Pericles’ Funeral Oration
the Koran (excerpts)
The Yoga of Knowledge (excerpt)
Survival in Auschwitz
Novel
Utopia
Don Quixote
The Joy Luck Club
Drama
The Tempest
The Tragical History and Life and
Death of Dr. Faustus
A Doll’s House
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Core Course Titles of Works
Grade: 11
Course: Essential English 3 (#1211)
Unit 1
The Crucible (Drama)
The Crucible Movie (Media)
from Poor Richard’s Almanac
(Aphorisms)
A&E Biography – Benjamin Franklin –
Citizen of the World (Media)
Unit 2
from Walden (Non-fiction)
The Masque of the Red Death (Short
Story) OR
The Raven (Poem)
A&E Biography – The Mystery of Edgar
Allan Poe (Media)
Closed on Account of Rabies – Edgar
Allan Poe sound recordings (Media)
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
(Novel)
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
(Media)
Unit 3
I Hear America Singing (Poem)
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
(Poem)
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
(Short Story)
Pay It Forward (Movie) OR
Dead Poets Society (Movie) OR
Mr. Holland’s Opus (Movie)
Catcher in the Rye (Novel)
Unit 4
Epigrams (Aphorisms)
The House on Mango Street (Novel)
OR
The Glass Castle (Novel)
Confessions of a Closet Carb Fiend
(Satire)
Unit 5
Harlem (Poem) OR
Richard Cory (Poem) OR
Chicago (Poem)
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Unit 6
Letter from Birmingham Jail (Nonfiction)
Fences (Drama)
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Core Course Titles of Works
Grade: 11
Course: Standard English 3 (#1611)
Unit 1
The Crucible (Drama)
Speech to the Virginia Convention
(Speech)
from Poor Richard’s Almanack
(Aphorisms)
A&E Biography – Voice of Liberty –
The Life of Patrick Henry (Media)
A&E Biography – Benjamin Franklin –
Citizen of the World (Media)
Unit 2
The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls (Poem)
OR
Old Ironsides (Poem)
from Self-Reliance (Non-fiction) OR
from Walden (Non-fiction)
A&E Biography – The Mystery of Edgar
Allan Poe (Media)
Closed on Account of Rabies – Edgar
Allan Poe sound recordings (Media)
The Masque of the Red Death (Short
Story) OR
The Raven (Poem)
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
(Novel)
Great Books Video on American
Renaissance/Transcendentalism
(Media)
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
(Media)
Unit 3
I Hear America Singing (Poem)
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
(Poem)
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
(Short Story)
Pay It Forward (Movie) OR
Dead Poets Society (Movie) OR
Mr. Holland’s Opus (Movie)
Catcher in the Rye (Novel)
Unit 4
Epigrams (Aphorisms)
Confessions of a Closet Carb Fiend
(Satire) OR
The Unlucky Winner (Short Story)
Story of an Hour (Short Story)
Where Are You Going? Where Have
You Been? (Short Story)
The House on Mango Street (Novel)
OR
The Glass Castle (Novel)
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Unit 5
Harlem (Poem) OR
Richard Cory (Poem) OR
Chicago (Poem)
In Another Country (Short Story) OR
A Worn Path (Short Story) OR
A Life You Save May Be Your Own
(Short Story)
All My Sons (Drama)
Unit 6
Letter from Birmingham Jail (Nonfiction)
Adolescence III (Poem) OR
Man in the Moon (Poem)
The Man to Send Rainclouds (Short
Story) OR Mother Tongue (Personal
Essay)
Fences (Drama)
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Core Course Titles of Works
Grade: 11
Course: Academic English 3 (#1711)
Unit 1
Upon the Burning of Our House, July
10th, 1666 (Poem)
The Crucible (Drama)
Speech to the Virginia Convention
(Speech)
The Autobiography of Benjamin
Franklin (Non-fiction)
from Poor Richard’s Almanack
(Aphorisms)
A&E Biography – Voice of Liberty –
The Life of Patrick Henry (Media)
A&E Biography – Benjamin Franklin –
Citizen of the World (Media)
Unit 2
Thanatopsis (Poem) OR
The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls (Poem)
OR
from Self-Reliance (Non-fiction) OR
from Nature(Non-fiction) OR
from Walden (Non-fiction)
A&E Biography – The Mystery of Edgar
Allan Poe (Media)
Closed on Account of Rabies – Edgar
Allan Poe sound recordings (Media)
The Masque of the Red Death (Short
Story) OR The Raven (Poem) OR
Moby-Dick (Novel Excerpts)
Great Books Video on American
Renaissance/Transcendentalism
(Media)
Unit 3
I Hear America Singing (Poem) OR
Song of Myself (Poem)
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
(Poem)
Pay It Forward (Movie) OR
Dead Poets Society (Movie) OR
Mr. Holland’s Opus (Movie)
Catcher in the Rye (Novel) OR
Their Eyes Were Watching God
(Novel)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Movie
and Audio)
Unit 4
The Notorious Jumping Frog of
Calaveras County (Short Story) OR
(Satire) OR
Where Are You Going? Where Have
You Been? (Short Story)
The House on Mango Street (Novel)
OR
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The Glass Castle (Novel)
Story of an Hour (Short Story) OR
The Yellow Wallpaper (Short Story)
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
(Short Story)
Unit 5
Harlem (Poem) OR
Richard Cory (Poem) OR
Chicago (Poem)
In Another Country (Short Story) OR
A Worn Path (Short Story) OR
A Life You Save May Be Your Own
(Short Story)
All My Sons (Drama)
The Great Gatsby (Novel)
Unit 6
Letter from Birmingham Jail (Nonfiction)
The Unlucky Winner (Short Story)
Adolescence III (Poem) OR
Man in the Moon (Poem)
The Man to Send Rainclouds (Short
Story) OR Mother Tongue (Personal
Essay)
Fences (Drama)
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Core Course Titles of Works
Grade: 11
Course: Honors English 3 (#1015)
Unit 1
Upon the Burning of Our House, July
10th, 1666 (Poem)
The Crucible (Drama)
Speech to the Virginia Convention
(Speech)
The Autobiography of Benjamin
Franklin (Non-fiction)
from Poor Richard’s Almanack
(Aphorisms)
A&E Biography – Voice of Liberty –
The Life of Patrick Henry (Media)
A&E Biography – Benjamin Franklin –
Citizen of the World (Media)
Unit 2
The Old Man and the Sea (Novella)
3 of the following:
Thanatopsis (Poem) OR
The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls (Poem)
OR Old Ironsides (Poem) OR
To a Waterfowl (Poem) OR
The Cross of Snow (Poem)
from Self-Reliance (Non-fiction) OR
from Nature(Non-fiction) OR
from Walden (Non-fiction)
The Life You Save May Be Your Own
(Short Story)
The Masque of the Red Death (Short
Story) OR The Raven (Poem) OR
Moby-Dick (Novel Excerpts)
The Good Earth (Novel)
Unit 3
On the Road (Novel)
I Hear America Singing (Poem) OR
Song of Myself (Poem)
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
(Poem)
Pay It Forward (Movie) OR
Dead Poets Society (Movie) OR
Mr. Holland’s Opus (Movie)
Catcher in the Rye (Novel) OR
Their Eyes Were Watching God
(Novel)
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
(Short Story)
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Unit 4
The Grapes of Wrath (Novel)
The Notorious Jumping Frog of
Calaveras County (Short Story) OR
Epigrams (Aphorisms)
Confessions of a Closet Carb Fiend
(Satire) OR
The Unlucky Winner (Short Story)
Story of an Hour (Short Story) OR
The Yellow Wallpaper (Short Story)
Where Are You Going? Where Have
You Been? (Short Story)
The House on Mango Street (Novel)
OR
The Glass Castle (Novel)
Unit 5
Harlem (Poem) OR
Richard Cory (Poem) OR
Chicago (Poem)
In Another Country (Short Story) OR
A Worn Path (Short Story)
The Great Gatsby (Novel)
All My Sons (Play)
Unit 6
Letter from Birmingham Jail (Nonfiction)
Adolescence III (Poem) OR
Man in the Moon (Poem)
The Man to Send Rainclouds (Short
Story) OR Mother Tongue (Personal
Essay)
Fences (Drama)
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Core Course Titles of Works
Grade: 11
Course: Advanced Placement English 3: Language & Composition
(#1011)
Title, Author
1984, George Orwell
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
Candide, Voltaire
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
East of Eden, John Steinbeck
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
Antigone, Sophocles
Macbeth, Shakespeare
Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand
The Importance of Being Earnest,Oscar Wilde
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Title, Author
Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
Thank You for Arguing, Jay Heinrichs
The Apology, Plato
‘The Allegory of the Cave’, Plato
The Prince, Machiavelli
A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift
‘Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God’, Jonathan Edwards
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin
Common Sense, Thomas Paine
Self-Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walden, Henry David Thoreau
Man’s Search for Meaning, Victor Frankl
Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck
2nd Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln
Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln
Inaugural Address, John F. Kennedy
Letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, Dylan Thomas
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Title, Author
Fences, August Wilson
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
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Core Course Titles of Works
Grade: 12
Course: Essential English 4 (#1212)
Unit 1
Beowulf (Epic Poem)
The Wanderer (Poem)
The Canterbury Tales – The Prologue
(Poem)
The Canterbury Tales – The
Pardoner’s Tale (Poem) OR The
Canterbury Tales – The Wife of Bath’s
Tale (Poem)
Get Up and Bar the Door (Poem)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
(Poem)
Beowulf movie (Media)
Unit 2
Macbeth (Drama)
Shakespearean Sonnets (Poems)
Unit 3
A Modest Proposal (Nonfiction
essay/Satire)
Unit 4
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(Poem)
At least 4 poems by the following
poets:
Wordsworth, Blake, Keats, Shelley,
and Byron (Poems)
Unit 5
The Importance of Being Earnest
(Drama)
Choose at least 1 poem by the
following poets: Browning, Hardy,
Housman, Arnold, Tennyson (Poems)
To an Athlete Dying Young (Poem)
Unit 6
Dulce et Decorum Est (Poem)
The Hollow Men (Poem)
Choose at least 2 poems by the
following poets: Owen, Sassoon, Eliot,
Thomas, Yeats, Auden (Poems)
Lord of the Flies (Novel) OR
Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Novel)
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Core Course Titles of Works
Grade: 12
Course: Standard English 4 (#1512)
Unit 1
Beowulf (Epic Poem)
The Wanderer (Poem)
The Canterbury Tales – The Prologue
(Poem)
Get Up and Bar the Door (Poem)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
(Poem)
Beowulf movie (Media)
Unit 2
Macbeth (Drama)
Shakespearean Sonnets (Poems)
Queen Elizabeth-Golden Age (Media)
Unit 3
A Modest Proposal (Nonfiction
essay/Satire)
Gulliver’s Travels
Unit 4
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(Poem)
At least 4 poems by the following
poets:
Wordsworth, Blake, Keats, Shelley,
and Byron (Poems)
Unit 5
The Importance of Being Earnest
(Drama)
Choose at least 1 poem by the
following poets: Browning, Hardy,
Housman, Arnold, Tennyson (Poems)
To an Athlete Dying Young (Poem)
Unit 6
Dulce et Decorum Est (Poem)
The Hollow Men (Poem)
Choose at least 2 poems by the
following poets: Owen, Sassoon, Eliot,
Thomas, Yeats, Auden (Poems)
Night (Novel)
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Core Course Titles of Works
Grade: 12
Course: Academic English 4 (#1712)
Unit 1
Beowulf (Epic Poem)
The Wanderer (Poem) OR
The Seafarer (Poem) OR
The Wife’s Lament (Poem)
The Canterbury Tales – The Prologue
(Poem)
The Canterbury Tales – The
Pardoner’s Tale (Poem) OR The
Canterbury Tales – The Wife of Bath’s
Tale (Poem) OR Another tale from The
Canterbury Tales (e.g. The Miller’s
Tale, The Knight’s Tale, The Nun’s
Priest’s Tale (Poem)
Barbara Allan (Poem) OR Robin Hood
and the Three Squires (Poem) OR Get
Up and Bar the Door (Poem)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
(Poem)
La Morte d’Arthur (Poem)
Unit 2
Macbeth (Drama)
Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing,
Shakespeare in Love (Movie Clips)
Shakespearean Sonnets (Poems)
Pastoral and/or Cavalier and/or
Metaphysical Poetry (Poems)
Unit 3
A Modest Proposal (Nonfiction
essay/Satire)
Unit 4
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(Poem)
At least 6 poems by the following
poets:
Wordsworth, Blake, Keats, Shelley,
and Byron (Poems)
Unit 5
The Importance of Being Earnest
(Drama)
Choose at least 2 poems by the
following poets: Browning, Hardy,
Housman, Arnold, Tennyson (Poems)
To an Athlete Dying Young (Poem)
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Unit 6
Dulce et Decorum Est (Poem)
The Hollow Men (Poem)
At least two of the following:
Novel or Drama – Grendel, Lord of the
Flies, Haroun and the Sea of Stories,
Cash on Delivery, Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern Are Dead, Night, The
Hobbit, Animal Farm
Choose at least 3 poems by the
following poets: Owen, Sassoon, Eliot,
Thomas, Yeats, Auden (Poems)
Animal Farm (Novel)
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Core Course Titles of Works
Grade: 12
Course: Honors English 4 (#1017)
Unit 1 and 2
Beowulf (Epic Poem)
The Seafarer (Poem)
The Canterbury Tales – The Prologue
(Poem)
The Canterbury Tales – The
Pardoner’s Tale ; The Canterbury
Tales – The Wife of Bath’s Tale ; The
Miller’s Tale, The Knight’s Tale, The
Nun’s Priest’s Tale (Poetry)
Barbara Allan (Poem) OR Robin Hood
and the Three Squires (Poem) OR Get
Up and Bar the Door (Poem)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
(Poem)
La Morte d’Arthur (Poem)
Unit 3 and 4
Macbeth (Drama)
A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream
(Comedy)
Hamlet (Drama)
Shakespearean and Spenserian
Sonnets (Poems)
Pastoral, Cavalier, and Metaphysical
Poetry – selected poetry from Sidney,
Marlowe, Raleigh, Herrick, Herbert,
Jonson, and Marvell (Poems)
Elizabeth: The Virgin Queen (Media)
Audio-clip of Elizabeth I’s
Tilbury Speech (Media)
Unit 5 and 6
A Modest Proposal (Nonfiction
essay/Satire)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(Poem)
Selected poetry by Wordsworth, Blake,
Keats, Coleridge, Shelley, and Byron
(Poems)
Heroic Couplets - Poems
Frankenstein (Novel)
Unit 7
Pride and Prejudice (Film)
Selected poetry from the following
poets: Browning, Hardy, Housman,
Arnold, Tennyson (Poems)
The Importance of Being Earnest
(Play)
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Unit 8
Select from the following list: “The
Duchess and the Jeweller,” “The
Demon Lover,”
Selected poetry from Owen, Sassoon,
Eliot, Thomas, Yeats, Auden (Poems)
Select from the following list: “Shooting
an Elephant,” “Words and Behavior,”
Churchill’s Speeches, “Night”
The Handmaid’s Tale (Novel)
Modern Novel Selections
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Core Course Titles of Works
Grade: 12
Course: Advanced Placement English 4: Literature & Composition (#1012)
A Tale of Two Cities
Waiting for Godot
Hamlet
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Frankenstein
A Clockwork Orange
Crime and Punishment
by Charles Dickens
by Samuel Beckett
by Shakespeare
by Tom Stoppard
by Mary Shelley
by Anthony Burgess
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (trans.
David McDuff)
The Stranger
by Albert Camus (trans. Matthew
Ward)
Othello
by Shakespeare
Pride & Prejudice
by Jane Austen
Medea by Euripides
(trans. James Morewood)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
The Wife of Bath’s Tale
by Geoffrey Chaucer
A Good Man is Hard to Find
by Flannery O’Connor
Heart of Darkness
by Josef Conrad
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
The Inferno
by Dante (trans. Mark Musa)
Araby and The Dead (from Dubliners) by James Joyce
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte
Beowulf
(trans. Burton Raffel)
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
Sound and Sense (Perrine and Arp), 8th Edition - selected poetry
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