Boerne ISD 3rd – 12th Grade
English Language Arts and Reading
Major Works List 2013-2014
Updated February 18, 2014
Betsy Ilgenfritz, Reading Coordinator - x2041 or [email protected]
Dave Kassabian, ELA Lead Teacher – x2709 or [email protected]
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Titles listed under a particular grade are to be taught only in that grade. To avoid duplication, grade
level teams should carefully consider what is already being read at other grade levels when proposing a
new title. There are so many great books available to teach specific skills. There is no reason that any
BISD student should have to read the same book more than one time (unless he/she chooses to on
his/her own time!)
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A Major Work Preview must be completed for each new major work proposed and will contain a
synopsis of the work, the reading level and interest level of the work, the specific concepts and skills
including ELAR TEKS Readiness and Supporting Standards that will be covered with the work,
recommendations, and literary significance. For help in completing a Major Works Preview please
contact Betsy Ilgenfritz or Dave Kassabian.
3rd Grade ELA/R Classes
Chocolate Fever by Robert Kimmel Smith – lst Semester (optional)
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White – 2nd Semester (optional)
4th Grade ELA/R Classes
Frindle by Andrew Clemens or Bunnicula by James Howe or There’s A Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom, by
Louis Sachar – 2nd Quarter (optional)
Poppy by Avi or Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo, or The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
by Bette Bao Lord– 4th Quarter (optional)
5th Grade ELA/R Classes
Rules by Cynthia Lord – 2nd Quarter (optional)
Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare or Riddle of Penncroft Farm by Dorothea
Jensen – 3rd Quarter (optional)
The Cay by Theodore Taylor – 4th Quarter (optional)
6th Grade ELA/R Classes
N/A
7th Grade English
(Teacher Contacts: BMSN: Anita Kruse, Stacie Murrah; BMSS: Darcy Hobby, Erin Griffin, Larissa Solis)
Baseball in April and Other Stories by Gary Soto – 1st Quarter
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton – 2nd Quarter
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls – 3rd Quarter
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan – 4th Quarter
7th Grade Pre-AP English
(Teacher Contacts BMSN: Anita Kruse; BMSS: Darcy Hobby, Erin Griffin)
Where the Red Ferns Grow by Wilson Rawls – 1st Quarter
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens – 2nd Quarter
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse – 3rd Quarter
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt – 4th Quarter
8th Grade English
(Teacher Contacts BMSN: Fred Navarro, Larry Pawlik; BMSS: Sheryl Robinson)
Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman – 1st Quarter
Stories by O. Henry – 2nd Quarter
Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury – 3rd Quarter
Call of the Wild by Jack London – 4th Quarter
8th Grade Pre-AP English
(Teacher Contacts BMSN: Larry Pawlik; BMSS: Larissa Solis, Vickie Weber)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain – 1st Quarter
Hiroshima by John Hersey – 2nd Quarter
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee – 3rd Quarter
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare – 4th Quarter
9th Grade – English I
(Teacher Contacts BHS: Aaron Cupp, Gina Davis; CHS: Rhonda Booth, Kim Taylor)
The Pearl or Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck – 2nd or 4th Quarter
Animal Farm by George Orwell – 3rd Quarter
The Odyssey (excerpt) by Homer – 1st or 2nd Quarter
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare – 3rd or 4th Quarter
9th Grade – Pre-AP English I
(Contacts BHS: Kelly Palmer, Darcy Scheffler; CHS: Joan Camacho, Cindy Waldrop)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
The Odyssey (excerpt) by Homer
Beowulf (excerpt)
Proposal for 2014-2015:
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak – summer reading
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck – 1st Quarter
The Odyssey (excerpt) – 1st Quarter
Choice of two 2nd Quarter: A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, The Glass Menagerie by
Tennessee Williams, Animal Farm by George Orwell
Lord of the Flies by William Golding – 3rd Quarter
Romeo and Juliet – 4th Quarter
The Pearl by John Steinbeck optional title
10th Grade – English II
(Teacher Contacts: BHS: Ashley Bowerman, Kelly Palmer, Paul Yoder; CHS: Erin
Bradley, Emily Steffek)
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Night by Elie Wiesel – 2 Quarter
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee – 3rd Quarter
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare – 4th Quarter
10th Grade – Pre-AP English II
(Teacher Contacts – BHS: Paul Yoder; CHS: Dave Kassabian, Emily Steffek)
The Three Theban Plays by Sophocles (Required Summer Reading)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 1st Quarter
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare – 2nd Quarter
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller – 3rd or 4th Quarter
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury – 3rd Quarter
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte or Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse – 4th Quarter
11th Grade – English III
(Teacher Contacts BHS: Ashley Bowerman, Gina Ivens, Darcy Scheffler; BHS: Robin Anders, Kim Taylor,
Josh Tindell)
The Crucible by Arthur Miller – 1st Quarter
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain – 2nd or 3rd Quarter
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald – 3rd or 4th Quarter
11th Grade – AP English III
(Teacher Contacts BHS: Gina Ivens; CHS: Cindy Waldrop)
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne - summer reading/1st Quarter
The Crucible by Arthur Miller – lst or 2nd Quarter
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald – 2nd or 4th Quarter
Billy Budd by Herman Melville – 2nd or 3rd Quarter
Optional: The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark
Twain, The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder, The Crucible by Arthur Miller, A Farewell to
Arms by Ernest Hemingway, Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
12th Grade – English IV
(Teacher Contacts BHS: Gina Ivens, Cheryl Majetich; BHS: Robin Anders, Jayne Burton, Rhonda Booth)
Beowulf – 1st Quarter
Hamlet or Macbeth by William Shakespeare - 2nd Quarter
1984 by George Orwell – 4th Quarter
12th Grade – English IV / NVC Dual Credit English 1301-1302
Composition
(Teacher Contacts BHS: Cheryl Majetich; CHS: Jayne Burton)
(Students purchase a college composition textbook for each semester of this writing intensive course.)
12th Grade – AP English IV / NVC Dual Credit English 2322-2323
British Literature
(Teacher Contacts - Cheryl Majetich – BHS / Josh Tindell - CHS)
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster (Required Summer Reading)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (Summer Reading Choice #1)
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (Summer Reading Choice #2)
Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot – 2nd Quarter
Hamlet by Shakespeare – 2nd Quarter
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard – 3rd Quarter
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy – 3rd Quarter
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw – 4th Quarter