9th—Lit and Comp I—Unit 1
Who am I? What do I Value?
 The Little Prince—Antione Saint-Exupery
 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings—Maya Angelou
 Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian—
Sherman Alexie
 Make Lemonade—Virginia Euwer Wolf
 Durango Street—Frank Bonham
 The Beast—Walter Dean Myers
 Catcher in the Rye—J.D. Salinger
 Nine Stories—J.D. Salinger
 Buried Onions—Gary Soto
 Behind You—Jaqueline Woodson
 Right Behind You—Gail Giles
 A Mango-Shaped Space—Wendy Mass
9th—Lit and Comp I—Unit 3
Myth, Fantasy, and Magic
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Greek Myths—Olivia Coolidge
The Trojan War—Olivia Coolidge
D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths—Ingrid D’Aulaire
The Odyssey—Homer
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe—C.S.
Lewis
The Golden Compass—Philip Pullman
The Lightning Thief—Rick Riordan
A Midsummer Night’s Dream—William Shakespeare
The Hobbit—J.R.R. Tolkien
Odd and the Frost Giants—Neil Gaiman
Anansi Boys—Neil Gaiman
9th—Lit and Comp I—Unit 5
Persistence and Courage
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The Miracle Worker—William Gibson
Zlata’s Diary—Zlata Filipovic
The Freedom Writers Diary—Erin Gruwell
Where the Red Fern Grows—Wilson Rawls
9th—Lit and Comp I—Unit 2
Obstacles and Rebellion
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Romeo and Juliet—William Shakespeare
The Outsiders—S.E. Hinton
The Chocolate War—Robert Cormier
A Separate Peace—John Knowles
The Beast—Walter Dean Myers
 Nothing but the Truth—Avi
9th—Lit and Comp I—Unit 4
Outcast and Scapegoat
 Anne Frank: The Diary of Young Girl—Anne
Frank
 To Kill a Mockingbird—Harper Lee
 Freak the Mighty—Rodman Philbrick
 Maus—Art Spiegelman
 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the
Nighttime—Mark Haddon
10th—Lit and Comp II—Unit 2
Families: Hope and History
10th—Lit and Comp II—Unit 1
Friends
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Of Mice and Men—John Steinbeck
The Secret Life of Bees—Sue Monk Kidd
The Chosen—Chiam Potok
Anything but Typical—Nora Releigh Baskin
The Mermaids Three Wisedoms—Jane Yolen
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10th—Lit and Comp II—Unit 4
Survival
10th—Lit and Comp II--Unit 3
Society vs Individual
 Black Boy—Richard Wright
 Lord of the Flies—William Golding
 Native Son—Richard Wright
 Life of Pi—Yann Martel
 Into Thin Air—Jon Krakauer
 A Girl Named Disaster—Nancy Farmer
 The Bean Trees—Barbara Kingsolver
10th—Lit and Comp II—Unit 5
Utopia
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Anthem—Ayn Rand
Fahrenheit 451—Ray Bradbury
Animal Farm—George Orwell
1984—George Orwell
Tuck Everlasting—Natalie Babbitt
Gathering Blue—Lois Lowery
A Raisin in the Sun—Lorraine Hansberry
The Namesake—Jhumpa Lahiri
The Whale Rider—Witi Ihimmaera
Peak—Roland Smith
Fences—August Wilson
The Piano Lesson—August Wilson
10th—Lit and Comp II—Unit 6
Enemies
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Othello—William Shakespeare
Richard III—William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar—William Shakespeare
Les Miserables—Victor Hugo
11th—Am Lit—Unit 1
American Dream
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A House on Mango Street—Sandra Cisneros
The Great Gatsby—F. Scott Fitzgerald
Death of a Salesman—Arthur Miller
Journey of the Sparrows—Fran Leeper Buss
11th—Am Lit—Unit 2
Protest, Rebellion, Justice
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11th—Am Lit—Unit 3
Race and Difference
 Their Eyes Were Watching God—Zora Neale
Hurston
 Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven—
Sherman Alexie
 Autobiography of Malcolm X—Malcolm X, Alex
Haley
 Funny in Farsi—Firoozeh Dumas
 American Born Chinese—Gene Luen Yang
11th—Am Lit—Unit 4
Challenges to Identity
 Their Eyes Were Watching God—Zora Neale
Hurston
 The Color Purple—Alice Walker
 A Gathering of Old Men—Ernest J. Gaines
 Deliver Us from Evie—M.E. Kerr
 Because of Winn-Dixie—Kate DiCamillo
11th—Am Lit—Unit 6
Making Sense of Experience
11th—Am Lit—Unit 5
Individual and Society
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—Mark Twain
The Crucible—Arthur Miller
The Scarlet Letter—Nathaniel Hawthorne
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest—Ken Kesey
Autobiography of a Face—Lucy Grealy
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—Mark Twain
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas—
Frederick Douglas
Walden—Henry David Thoreau
A Time to Kill—John Grisham
Let the Circle be Unbroken—Mildred D. Taylor
Civil Disobedience—Henry David Thoreau
Holes—Louis Sachar
The Red Badge of Courage—Stephen Crane
Slaughterhouse-Five—Kurt Vonnegut
Speak—Laurie Halse Anderson
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close—
Jonathan Safran Foer
 Fallen Angels—Walter Deam Myers
 The Things They Carried—Tim O’Brien
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12th—World Lit—Unit 2
Cultural Conflict
12th—World Lit—Unit 1
Cultural Heroes
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Oedipus Rex—Sophocles
Hamlet—William Shakespeare
Beowulf—Trans. Seamus Heaney
Grendel—John Champlin Gardner Jr
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12th—World Lit—Unit 3
Presence of Evil
 Macbeth—William Shakespeare
 Frankenstein—Mary Shelley
 Exterminate All the Brutes—Sven Lindqvist
The Kite Runner—Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns—Khaled Hosseini
Master Harold and the Boys—Athol Fugard
With All Our Strength: The Revolutionary
Association of the Women of Afghanistan—Anne
E. Brodsky
Borderlands: The New Mestiza—Gloria E.
Anzaldúa
Cellist of Sarajevo—Steven Galloway
A Small Place—Jamaica Kincaid
12th—World Lit—Unit 4
How Do I Tell My Story
 What is the What—Dave Eggers
 A Long Way Gone—Ishmael Beah
 Chronicle of a Death Foretold—Gabriel Garcia
Marquez
 Siddhartha—Herman Hesse
 The Tortilla Curtain—T.C. Boyle
12th—World Lit—Additional Texts
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Nectar in the Sieve—Kamala Markandaya
House of Spirits—Isabel Allende
Rooftops of Tehran—Mahbod Seraji
The Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency—
Alexander McCall Smith
 Morality for Beautiful Girls—Alexander McCall
Smith
 The Good Husband of Zebra Drive—Alexander
McCall Smith
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