• Of Mice and Men

• Romeo and Juliet

• To Kill a Mockingbird

• Selected short stories, non-fiction and poetry from Elements of Literature, Third Course

• Animal Farm

• The Bean Trees

• Beowulf

• Cold Sassy Tree

• Fifteen One Act Plays

• Fahrenheit 451

• Great Expectations (Honors)

• Hiroshima

• Jane Eyre (Honors)

• Lord of the Flies (Honors)

• The Miracle Worker

• The Odyssey

• The Old Man and the Sea

• A Separate Peace

• When the Legends Die

• The Oedipus Cycle (all three for Honors)

• A Shakespeare play (two for honors) selected from the following:

  • The Merchant of Venice

  • Much Ado About Nothing

  • Taming of the Shrew

  • Julius Caesar

• Selected short stories, non-fiction and poetry from Elements of Literature, Fourth Course

• Bless Me Ultima

• The Color Purple

• Cry the Beloved Country

• Cyrano de Bergerac

• The Good Earth

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

• Joy Luck Club

• The Lord of the Flies

• Metamorphosis

• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

• Nectar in a Sieve

• Night

• Six Great Modern Plays (including All My Sons and The Glass Menagerie)

• Things Fall Apart

• Winter of Our Discontent (Honors)

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

• The Great Gatsby

• A play by Arthur Miller, either The Crucible or Death of a Salesman

• Selected short stories, non-fiction and poetry from Elements of Literature, Fifth Course

• The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

• Black Boy

• Cat's Cradle (Honors)

• The Crucible

• Ethan Frome (Honors)

• The Grapes of Wrath (Honors)

• Tales of Edgar Allen Poe

• My Antonia

• The Narratives of the Life of Frederick Douglass

• The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

• Our Town

• A Raisin in the Sun

• The Red Badge of Courage

• The Scarlet Letter (Honors)

• The Sun Also Rises

• Song of Solomon

• Walden

• Woman Warrior

• The Catcher in the Rye

• 1984

• Shakespeare play (two for honors) selected from the following:

  • Hamlet (District core)

  • MacBeth

  • Othello

• Selected short stories, non-fiction and poetry from Elements of Literature, Sixth Course

• Becket

• Brave New World

• Candide

• Canterbury Tales

• Catch 22

• Crime and Punishment

• Frankenstein

• Heart of Darkness/The Secret Sharer

• The Inferno

• Pygmalion/My Fair Lady

• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

• Rhinoceros

• Siddhartha

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

• Slaughterhouse Five

• The Stranger

• Waiting for Godot

• Wuthering Heights

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