Core Texts

• To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
• The Odyssey, Homer
• Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
• The Kite Runner, Khalid Hosseini (A and H only)
• Animal Farm, George Orwell
• Maus I, Art Spiegelman
• Enrique's Journey, Sonia Nazario

10th Grade

• All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
• The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
• Macbeth, William Shakespeare
• Antigone, Sophocles
• Oedipus Rex, Sophocles (A, H)
• A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
• Incognegro, Mat Johnson
• selections from Dubliners, James Joyce (A, H)
• When the Emperor Was Divine, Julie Otsuka
• The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison (A, H)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde (A, H)
• Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte or Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton (H)

11th Grade

• Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck (CP)
• The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck (A)
• Incognegro, Mat Johnson 2015-2016
• American Born Chinese, Gene Luen Yang 2016-2017
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain (A)
• A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway (A)
• selections from Ernest Hemingway's short stories (CP)
• The Awakening, Kate Chopin and "The Yellow Wallpaper," Charlotte Perkins
• Gilman
• Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
• The Realm of Possibility, David Levithan
• The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• selections from Walden, Henry David Thoreau
• Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison (A)
• The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
• Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neal Hurston
• The Sonnets, William Shakespeare

12th Grade

• The Road, Cormac McCarthy
• Hamlet, William Shakespeare
• Fun Home, Alison Bechdel or Speak No Evil, Uzodinma Iweala or We Are Okay, Nina LaCour
• 1984, George Orwell
• A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
• Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
• The Stranger, Albert Camus
• A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah
• Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel
• Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi

AP: Language and Composition

• The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
• The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
• selections from Walden, Henry David Thoreau
• Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
• The Realm of Possibility, David Levithan
• Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
• The Awakening, Kate Chopin and "The Yellow Wallpaper," Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Incognegro, Mat Johnson
• The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
• A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
• The Shakespeare Sonnets, William Shakespeare

AP: Literature and Composition

• Hamlet, William Shakespeare
• King Lear, William Shakespeare
• 1984, George Orwell
• Fences, August Wilson
• Fun Home, Alison Bechdel
• A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
• Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
• Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
• Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
• Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
• Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
• Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
• As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner