Core Texts
9th Grade
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- The Odyssey, Homer
- Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
- The Kite Runner, Khalid Hosseini
- Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
- 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 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
- When the Emperor Was Divine, Julie Otsuka
- The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte or Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
- Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
11th Grade
- Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
- The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
- Incognegro, Mat Johnson
- American Born Chinese, Gene Luen Yang
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
- A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
- selections from Ernest Hemingway's short stories
- 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
- 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
AP: Language and Composition (Grade 10)
- The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
- Macbeth, Shakespeare
- Antigone, Sophocles
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
- When the Emperor Was Divine, Julie Otsuka
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
- A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
- The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
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