Readings will include, but will not be limited to, most of the following, not necessarily in this order in addition to two outside book reports each semester: biography, drama, other non-fiction, science fiction.

NOVELS

The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger

Catch 22 Joseph Heller

The Grapes of Wrath (video) John Steinbeck

The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury

I, Robot Isaac Asimov

The Kitchen God’s Wife Amy Tan

SELECTED SHORT STORIES

“By the Waters of Babylon” Stephen Vincent Benet

“Harrison Bergeron” Kurt Vonnegut

“Computers Don’t Argue” Gordon R. Dickson

“Thirty Days Had September” Robert F. Young

SELECTED NON FICTION

from The Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass

from Walden Henry David Thoreau

from Self-Reliance Ralph Waldo Emerson

from Huck Finn Mark Twain

“War” George Santayana

“Guns” Michael Royko

“Cinematypes” Susan Allen Toth

from A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway

from All I Really Need to Know . . . Robert Fulghum

“Shopping as an Entertainment Form” William Safire

“I Have a Dream” M. L. King

“Another Reason to Fear . . .” Dave Barry

SELECTED POETRY

“So Much Depends” William Carlos Williams

“The Ex-Basketball Player” John Updike

“The Pearl” Christopher Morley

“Chicago”

“Grass” Carl Sandburg

Miss Rosie” Lucille Clifton

“The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”

“The Machine-Gun” Randall Jarrell

“Redecoration “ Liz Shura

“To A Mouse . . .” Robert Burns

“Dream Deferred” (Harlem from Lenox Avenue Mural)

“Theme for English B” Langston Hughes

“Stopping by Woods,” “Fire and Ice,” “Mending Wall,” “Birches,” & “Nothing Gold Can Stay” Robert Frost

“Jeremiah Blue” Sting

Eve of Destruction P. F. Sloan

“From Burnt Norton” & “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” T. S. Eliot

“Ars Poetica” Archibald MacLeish

“pity this busy monster,” the ladies of Cambridge,” “Buffalo Bill” e.e. cummings

“All Watched Over by Machines Of Loving Grace” Richard Brautigan

“Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note” & “Each Morning” Imamu Baraka

SELECTED MODERN AMERICAN DRAMA

The Crucible Arthur Miller

COMPOSITION

Rhetorical Modes: Expository (College Essay), Narrative/Descriptive

(Sketch, Most Embarrassing Moment), Compare/Contrast (Cookies, Characters), Argumentative/Persuasive (What is Art?), Timed Writes/Unit Essays

Style Analysis: Diction, Concrete Detail, Organization, Tone, Syntax,

Theme, Compare/Contrast

Poetry: Free Verse

Presentation

Telling Our Stories (PowerPoint), American Author (PowerPoint)

Vocabulary

Literary Terms, SAT lists, Words in Context (weekly)

Language

Daily Language, CST review as needed, ELA Prep