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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

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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 All-American Slurp (Short Story) The Red Guards (from The Memoir Red Scarf Girl) (Memoir)

The Breadwinner (Novel)

Life Doesn’t Frighten Me (Poem) On Turning Ten (Poem) The Jacket (Essay) Unit 2 from Spellbinder: The Life of Harry Houdini (Biography)

What Video Games Can Teach Us (Magazine Article)

The Good Deed (Short Story) The Violent Side of Video Games (Magazine Article)

I’m Nobody! Who are You (Poem) The Crane Maiden (Folk Tale) Is the Moon Tired? (Poem) Aunty Misery (Folk Tale) Mooses (Poem) The Cay (Novel) SuperCroc (Magazine Article) Unit 3 from Woodsong (Memoir) Nadia the Willful (Short Story) President Cleveland, Where Are You? (Short Story)

The Morning Walk (Poem)

Aaron’s Gift (Short Story) There Is No Word for Goodbye (Poem) Same Song (Poem) The First Skateboard in the History of

the World (Memoir) Without Commercials (Poem) The Problem with Bullies (Feature

Article) The True Story of the Three Little Pigs (Storybook Parody)

Tuesday of the Other June (Short Story)

The Village Blacksmith (Poem) Scout’s Honor(Short Story) The Dog of Pompeii (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) The Monsters are Due on Maple Street

(Drama) Thank-you, Ma’m (Short Story) The Outsiders (Novel) If I can stop one Heart from Breaking (Poem)

Nothing Gold Can Stay (Poem)

Rikki Tikki Tavi (Short Story) Exploring the Titanic (Non-fiction) Unit 2 The Three Century Woman (Short Story) It was a Long Time Before (Poem) A Retrieved Reformation (Short Story) Abuelito Who? (Poem) An American Childhood (Non-fiction) The Wednesday Wars (Novel) Unit 3 Dark They Were, Golden-Eyed (Short Story)

The Only Girl in the World for Me (Memoir)

A Day’s Wait (Short Story) Breaking the Ice (Essay) One Perfect Rose (Poem) Song for an April Dusk (Poem) The Westing Game (Novel) 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) Annabel Lee (Poem) The Earth is a Living Thing (Poem) The Charge of the Light Brigade

(Poem) Sleeping in the Forest (Poem) The Highwayman (Poem) Gold (Poem) Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not

Take the Garbage Out (Poem)

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Unit 6 Prometheus (Myth) Icarus and Daedalus (Myth) Orpheus and Eurydice (Myth) Phaethon, Son of Apollo (Myth) Young Arthur (Legend) Who Was King Arthur? (Legend) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Legend)

Brer Possum’s Dilemma (Folk Tale)

Waters of Gold (Folk Tale) Unit 7 Names/Nombres (Essay) The Noble Experiment (Biography) from It’s Not About the Bike (Biography)

Jackie Robinson Makes Headlines (Biography)

from 23 Days in July (Non-fiction)

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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)

My Mother Pieced Quilts (Poem)

The Story of an Eyewitness (Magazine Article) Letter from New Orleans: Leaving Desire (Magazine Article)

Call of the Wild (Novel) OR The Giver (Novel)

Position On Dodgeball in Physical Education (Position Paper) The Weak Shall Inherit the Gym (Essay)

Unit 3 The Tell-Tale Heart (Short Story) The Monkey’s Paw (Short Story) Flowers for Algernon (Novella) Paul Revere’s Ride (Poem) OR

Song of Hiawatha (Poem) An American Plague: Yellow Fever (Non-fiction) Not My Bones (Poem)

For My Sister Molly Who in the 50’s (Poem) Drummer Boy of Shiloh (Short Story)

O Captain! My Captain! (Poem) I Saw Old General at Bay (Poem)

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)

“I Have a Dream” (Nonfiction/Speech)

“The Lost Boys” (Nonfiction/Essay) Of Mice and Men (Novella) “The Scarlet Ibis” (Short Story) Unit 4 “The Tropics in New York” (Poem) “Going to Japan” (Nonfiction/Essay) “Theme for English B” (Poem) “American History” (Short Story) “How Private is Your Private Life?” (Nonfiction/Article)

The Gospel According to Larry (Novel)

Audio Visual “I Have a Dream” Speech Romeo & Juliet (Film) Of Mice and Men (Film)

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Core Course Titles of Works Grade: 9 Course: Standard English 1 (#1409) UNIT 1 The Necklace (Short Story) How Far Would You Go to Fit In?

(Nonfiction) The Cask of Amontillado (Short Story) Inherit the Wind (Drama) The Most Dangerous Game (Short Story)

UNIT 2 Luxury (Poem) Pyramus and Thisbe (Poem/Myth) The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (Drama)

UNIT 3 Of Mice and Men (Novella) The Lost Boys (Nonfiction/Article) The Scarlet Ibis (Short Story) Hope Is the Thing with Feathers

(Poem) I Have a Dream (Speech) UNIT 4 from Choices for the High School Graduate (Nonfiction)

Seven Ages of Man (Poem)

The Road Not Taken (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) Marigolds (Short Story) Spending Spree (Nonfiction) The Necklace (Short Story) From Rosa Parks (Nonfiction/Biography)

The Cask of Amontillado (Short Story)

Rights to the Streets of Memphis (Nonfiction/Autobiography)

The Most Dangerous Game (Short Story)

Inherit the Wind (Drama) UNIT 2 The Gift of the Magi (Short Story) Luxury (Poem) The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (Drama)

Pyramus and Thisbe (Poem/Myth)

UNIT 3 Of Mice and Men (Novella) The Lost Boys (Nonfiction/Article) The Scarlet Ibis (Short Story) Blind to Failure (Nonfiction/Article) I Have a Dream (Speech) Hope Is the Thing with Feathers

(Poem) UNIT 4 The Tropics of New York (Poem) Seven Ages of Man (Poem) Theme for English B (Poem) The Road Not Taken (Poem) How Private Is Your Private Life (Nonfiction)

Select 1 The Gospel According to Larry (Novel) Anthem (Novel) A Separate Peace (Novel)

Going to Japan (Nonfiction) 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)

The Interlopers (Short Story)

12 Angry Men (Drama) I Acknowledge Mine (Non-fiction) Tragedy of Julius Caesar (Drama) 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) Two Friends (Short Story) Doing Nothing is Something (Non-fiction)

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)

The Interlopers (Short Story)

12 Angry Men (Drama) I Acknowledge Mine (Non-fiction) Tragedy of Julius Caesar (Drama) 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) Two Friends (Short Story) Doing Nothing is Something (Non-fiction)

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 (Non-fiction)

Unit 5 Fahrenheit 451 (Novel) OR In Cold Blood (Non-fiction) OR Brave New World (Novel)

The Pond (Poem)

The Seventh Man (Short Story) Fourth of July Night (Poem) Fifteen (Poem) The Red Wheelbarrow (Poem) Tonight I Can Write…/Puedo Escribir Los Versos… (Poem)

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Core Course Titles of Works Grade: 10 Course: Honors English 2 (#1110) Short Story Novella-The Metamorphosis (Kafka) The Happy Man The Fisherman and the Jinnee An Astrologer’s Day The Panchatantra Tribal Scars The Lay of the Werewolf The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe Federigo’s Falcon Ovid’s Metamorphoses The Bet Various short stories from World

Writer’s Today The Artist Poetry Aenied (excerpts) Song of Roland (excerpt) The Inferno (Cantos 1,3,4,34) Prologue in Heaven The Rubaiyat Selections from various Japanese and

Chinese poets Rig Veda/Upanishads The Epic of Gilgamesh Iliad (excerpts) Psalms and Genesis (excerpts) Shanama (excerpts) The Grail from Perceval Substance, Shadow and Spirit Non Fiction The Prince Pericles’ Funeral Oration The Mahabharata (excerpt) the Koran (excerpts) The Analects The Yoga of Knowledge (excerpt) The Pillow Book (excerpts) Survival in Auschwitz Novel Utopia The Joy Luck Club Don Quixote Drama The Tempest A Doll’s House The Tragical History and Life and Death of Dr. Faustus

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Core Course Titles of Works Grade: 11 Course: Essential English 3 (#1211) Unit 1 The Crucible (Drama) from Poor Richard’s Almanac

(Aphorisms) The Crucible Movie (Media) A&E Biography – Benjamin Franklin –

Citizen of the World (Media) Unit 2 from Walden (Non-fiction) The Five People You Meet In Heaven

(Novel) The Masque of the Red Death (Short Story) OR The Raven (Poem)

The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Media)

A&E Biography – The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe (Media) Closed on Account of Rabies – Edgar Allan Poe sound recordings (Media)

Unit 3 I Hear America Singing (Poem) Pay It Forward (Movie) OR

Dead Poets Society (Movie) OR Mr. Holland’s Opus (Movie)

Because I Could Not Stop for Death (Poem)

Catcher in the Rye (Novel)

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Short Story)

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 (Non-fiction)

Fences (Drama)

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Core Course Titles of Works Grade: 11 Course: Standard English 3 (#1611) Unit 1 The Crucible (Drama) from Poor Richard’s Almanack

(Aphorisms) Speech to the Virginia Convention (Speech)

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)

The Masque of the Red Death (Short Story) OR The Raven (Poem)

from Self-Reliance (Non-fiction) OR from Walden (Non-fiction)

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) Pay It Forward (Movie) OR

Dead Poets Society (Movie) OR Mr. Holland’s Opus (Movie)


Catcher in the Rye (Novel)


Unit 4 Epigrams (Aphorisms) Where Are You Going? Where Have

You Been? (Short Story) Confessions of a Closet Carb Fiend (Satire) OR The Unlucky Winner (Short Story)

The House on Mango Street (Novel) OR The Glass Castle (Novel)

Story of an Hour (Short Story)

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All My Sons (Drama)

In Another Country (Short Story) OR A Worn Path (Short Story) OR A Life You Save May Be Your Own (Short Story)


The Man to Send Rainclouds (Short Story) OR Mother Tongue (Personal Essay)

Adolescence III (Poem) OR Man in the Moon (Poem)

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 Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Non-fiction)

The Crucible (Drama) from Poor Richard’s Almanack (Aphorisms)

Speech to the Virginia Convention (Speech)



Unit 2 Thanatopsis (Poem) OR The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls (Poem) OR

The Masque of the Red Death (Short Story) OR The Raven (Poem) OR Moby-Dick (Novel Excerpts)

from Self-Reliance (Non-fiction) OR from Nature(Non-fiction) OR from Walden (Non-fiction)


Great Books Video on American Renaissance/Transcendentalism (Media)

Unit 3 I Hear America Singing (Poem) OR Song of Myself (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

Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been? (Short Story)

(Satire) OR

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)


All My Sons (Drama)

In Another Country (Short Story) OR A Worn Path (Short Story) OR A Life You Save May Be Your Own (Short Story)

The Great Gatsby (Novel)

Unit 6 Letter from Birmingham Jail (Non-fiction) The Unlucky Winner (Short Story)



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 Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Non-fiction)

The Crucible (Drama) from Poor Richard’s Almanack (Aphorisms)

Speech to the Virginia Convention (Speech)



Unit 2 The Old Man and the Sea (Novella) The Masque of the Red Death (Short

Story) OR The Raven (Poem) OR Moby-Dick (Novel Excerpts)

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)

The Good Earth (Novel)

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)

Unit 3 On the Road (Novel) I Hear America Singing (Poem) OR Song of Myself (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)


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Unit 4 The Grapes of Wrath (Novel) Where Are You Going? Where Have

You Been? (Short Story) The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (Short Story) OR Epigrams (Aphorisms)

The House on Mango Street (Novel) OR The Glass Castle (Novel)

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)


The Great Gatsby (Novel) All My Sons (Play)

In Another Country (Short Story) OR A Worn Path (Short Story)




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) Get Up and Bar the Door (Poem) The Wanderer (Poem) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

(Poem) The Canterbury Tales – The Prologue (Poem)

Beowulf movie (Media)

The Canterbury Tales – The Pardoner’s Tale (Poem) OR The Canterbury Tales – The Wife of Bath’s Tale (Poem)

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) Choose at least 2 poems by the

following poets: Owen, Sassoon, Eliot, Thomas, Yeats, Auden (Poems)

The Hollow Men (Poem) 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) Get Up and Bar the Door (Poem) The Wanderer (Poem) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

(Poem) The Canterbury Tales – The Prologue (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




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) Choose at least 2 poems by the


The Hollow Men (Poem) Night (Novel)

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Core Course Titles of Works Grade: 12 Course: Academic English 4 (#1712) Unit 1 Beowulf (Epic Poem) Barbara Allan (Poem) OR Robin Hood

and the Three Squires (Poem) OR Get Up and Bar the Door (Poem)

The Wanderer (Poem) OR The Seafarer (Poem) OR The Wife’s Lament (Poem)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Poem)

The Canterbury Tales – The Prologue (Poem)

La Morte d’Arthur (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)

Unit 2 Macbeth (Drama) Shakespearean Sonnets (Poems) Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare in Love (Movie Clips)

Pastoral and/or Cavalier and/or Metaphysical Poetry (Poems)

Unit 3 A Modest Proposal (Nonfiction essay/Satire)




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) Choose at least 3 poems by the


The Hollow Men (Poem) Animal Farm (Novel) 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

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Core Course Titles of Works Grade: 12 Course: Honors English 4 (#1017) Unit 1 and 2 Beowulf (Epic Poem) Barbara Allan (Poem) OR Robin Hood

and the Three Squires (Poem) OR Get Up and Bar the Door (Poem)

The Seafarer (Poem)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Poem)

The Canterbury Tales – The Prologue (Poem)

La Morte d’Arthur (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)

Unit 3 and 4 Macbeth (Drama) A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream (Comedy)

Pastoral, Cavalier, and Metaphysical Poetry – selected poetry from Sidney, Marlowe, Raleigh, Herrick, Herbert, Jonson, and Marvell (Poems)

Hamlet (Drama) Elizabeth: The Virgin Queen (Media) Shakespearean and Spenserian Sonnets (Poems)

Audio-clip of Elizabeth I’s Tilbury Speech (Media)

Unit 5 and 6 A Modest Proposal (Nonfiction essay/Satire)

Heroic Couplets - Poems

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Poem)

Frankenstein (Novel)

Selected poetry by Wordsworth, Blake, Keats, Coleridge, Shelley, and Byron (Poems)

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,”

Select from the following list: “Shooting an Elephant,” “Words and Behavior,” Churchill’s Speeches, “Night”

Selected poetry from Owen, Sassoon, Eliot, Thomas, Yeats, Auden (Poems) Modern Novel Selections

The Handmaid’s Tale (Novel)

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Core Course Titles of Works Grade: 12 Course: Advanced Placement English 4: Literature & Composition (#1012) A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett Hamlet by Shakespeare Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard Frankenstein by Mary Shelley A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Crime and Punishment 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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