Secondary Core Texts Creekside High School Night A Raisin in the Sun The Martian Chronicles Lord of the Flies The Color of Water Death of a Salesman Animal Farm Fahrenheit 451 Anthem Irvine High School 9th grade To Kill a Mockingbird Of Mice and Men Lord of the Flies Romeo and Juliet Fahrenheit 451 H. 9th Grapes of Wrath A Separate Peace 9th grade novels? 10th grade Things Fall Apart Julius Caesar Night Catcher in the Rye H. 10th Macbeth Dorian Gray Frankenstein, 1984 11th grade The Crucible Death of a Salesman The Old Man and the Sea The Great Gatsby Into the Wild 12th grade Hamlet Brave New World The Importance of Being Earnest AP Language Textbook: Literature and Society by Annas and Rosen Textbook: The Language of Composition by Shea, Scanlon, and Aufses Falling Leaves by Yen Mah, A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Dorris, Down and Out in Paris and London by Orwell, The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald, The House on Mango Street by Cisneros, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Angelou, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Hurston, Night by Wiesel Shakespeare's Othello AP Debra Gala Oedipus Rex The Importance of Being Earnest A Streetcar Named Desire Fences Hamlet Novels: 18th - 19th c of choice from Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Jude the Obscure, The Picture of Dorian Grey, Crime and Punishment The Stranger, First Confession, The Things They Carried, As I Lay Dying, Wise Blood Two 20th-21st c of choice from Indignant, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Waiting, Typical American, Wide Saragossa Sea, Beloved, The Bluest Eye, The Road, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Northwood High Text List - updated ELD House on Mango Street Farewell to Manzanar To Kill a Mockingbird H-9 Antigone Romeo and Juliet Things Fall Apart All Quiet on the Western Front H-10 Raisin in the Sun The House on Mango St. The Quiet American Piano Lesson Great Gatsby Honors Euro Lit Candide Pride and Prejudice A Room of One s Own The Stranger One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Lord of the Flies Euro Lit The Illiad Macbeth Candide Pride and Prejudice 1984 Lit and Society Fences One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest Contemporary Lit Fences Housekeeping Jazz Nine Stories One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest White Noise Seven Guitars Flash Fiction Lord of the Flies Hunger Games The Absolutely True Diary of a Part- Time Indian Life of Pi To Kill a Mockingbird And Then There Were None (possibly) AP English Emery The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Hamlet Beloved Joe Turner s Come and Gone Imagining Argentina Heart of Darkness AP English Gates The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Hamlet Beloved Joe Turner s Come and Gone Beloved Heart of Darkness
University High School - updated 9th grade Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie To Kill a Mockingbird The Odyssey A Tale of Two Cities Romeo and Juliet 10th grade The Crucible by Arthur Miller The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger A Raisin in the Sun by Lorainne Hansberry A Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne A Streetcar Named Desire House of Mirth 11th grade The Importance of Being Earnest The Power and the Glory Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Hardy novel (The Mayor of Casterbridge) The Taming of the Shrew or Macbeth 1984 Jane Erye by Charlotte Bronte Emma Jane Eyre Persuasion Sense and Sensibility Contemporary Literature Into the Wild by Krakauer The Left hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin Career Prep The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Covey Deep Survival by Gonzales 12th grade Life of Pi by Yann Martel Brave New World by Huxley Children of Men by P.D. James Slaughterhouse Five by Vonnegut All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque Oedipus by Sophocles One Flew over the Cuckoo s Nest by Kesey The Guest by Camus Othello by Shakespeare The Namesake by Lahirir Antigone by Sophocles The Stranger by Albert Camus 12th AP The Custom House by Nathaniel Hawthorne Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Oedipus the King by Sophocles A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce Hamlet by William Shakespeare The Sandbox by Edward Albee Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Much Ado About Nothing and Othello by William Shakespeare The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner Beloved by Toni Morrison Arthur Miller s Death of a Salesmen ELD 1 Penguin Press Leveled Readers o Romeo & Juliet o Alice in Wonderland o White Fang o Little Women True Stories Short Story Collection Kelly Gallagher s Article of the Week ELD 2 Diary of Anne Frank Moby Dick (Adapted/Pearson) The House on Mango Street English 3D, Kate Kinsella Three Cups of Tea Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie
Woodbridge High School - updated ELD The Absolutely True Story of a Part- Time Indian The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Persepolis English 1 Romeo and Juliet To Kill a Mockingbird House of Mango Street H. English 1 The Crucible Romeo and Juliet To Kill a Mockingbird Lord of the Flies English 2 Julius Caesar All Quiet on the Western Front Twelve Angry Men The Catcher in the Rye Of Mice and Men AP Language and Composition (H. English 2) The Catcher in the Rye Julius Caesar Persepolis Into the Wild Importance of Being Earnest American Literature The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail The Great Gatsby A Raisin in the Sun In Cold Blood One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest Proof by David Auburn Applied Communications Into the Wild The Color of Water The Absolutely True Story of a Part- Time Indian H. American Literature The Scarlet Letter The Great Gatsby Death of a Salesman Joy Luck Club The Bell Jar The Night Thoreau Spend in Jail World Literature Kite Runner Street Car Named Desire Siddhartha Othello Antigone Escape from Camp 14 Things Fall Apart AP Literature and Composition Metamorphosis King Lear The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Pride and Prejudice Candide Frankenstein Heart of Darkness Oedipus Rex Antigone Great Expectations Hamlet Please Look After Mom Tess of D Urbervilles Wuthering Heights Jane Eyre The Stranger No Exit Life of Pi
Lakeside Middle School - updated 7 th Grade Beowulf Master Puppeteer 8 th Grade Something Wicked This Way Comes The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Behind Rebel Lines Johnny Tremain Both Levels Night Tangerine The Outsiders The Giver Flowers for Algernon Roll of Thunder Plaza Vista School - updated 6 th Grade (elementary list, not middle school) The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster D Aulaires Book of Greek Myths The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw The Call of the Wild by Jack London 7 th Grade Beowulf: A New Telling by Robert Nye The Giver by Lois Lowry Animal Farm by George Orwell 8 th Grade The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton), The Glory Field (Walter Dean Myers) Farewell to Manzanar (Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston) Rancho Middle School updated 7 th Grade GATE Shadow Spinner (benchmark) Fahrenheit 451 I, Juan de Pareja Chasing Vermeer The Outsiders The Giver - optional 7 th Grade General Ed: Shadow Spinner (benchmark) Outsiders The Giver Beowulf: A New Telling Selections from Arabian Nights 8 th Grade GATE List: Rise to Rebellion by Jeff Shaara Animal Farm by George Orwell Anthem by Ayn Rand Call of the Wild 8 th Grade General Ed: O Pioneers! By Wila Cather My Brother Sam is Dead by Collier brothers Call of the Wild by Jack London
Sierra Vista Middle School - updated 7 th Grade GATE Beowulf: A New Telling Samurai's Tale The Giver 7 th Grade Gen Ed Beowulf: A New Telling Sign of the Chrysanthemum The Giver Catherine, Called Birdy 8th Grade GATE Animal Farm Call of the Wild Nothing But the Truth 8 th Grade Gen Ed Animal Farm Call of the Wild Nothing But the Truth The Outsiders Southlake Middle School - updated 7th Grade Holt Literature and Language Arts (7th) The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton The Giver by Lois Lowry City of Ember by DuPrau Animal Farm by Orwell 8th Grade Holt Literature and Language Arts (8th) Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury The Pearl by John Steinbeck The Glory Field by Walter Dean Myers Nothing But the Truth by Avi Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
Venado Middle School - updated 7th grade Crispin: the Cross of Lead (Teachers would like to give this book up, but they are using it at this time). Samurai s Tale Beowulf Freak the Mighty The Giver (?) GATE: Julius Caesar (probably a onetime thing.) Raffel s Beowulf 8th grade My Brother Sam Is Dead Nothing But the Truth Pigman (Only one of us teaches this) The Outsiders GATE: Tom Sawyer All Quiet on the Western Front, may be used in the future for GATE Would like to add: Call of the Wild to replace Pigman Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl Farewell to Manzanaar Vista Verde School 6 th grade Boy of the Painted Cave Hatchet Number the Stars Maniac McGee 7 th grade Text Heroes, Gods, and Monsters of the Greek Myths Beowulf: A New Telling The Outsiders The Pearl (Steinbeck) Witness (Hesse) 8 th grader And Then There Were None (Christie) April Morning; My Brother Sam Is Dead Animal Farm; Martian Chronicles Fahrenheit 451 Lincoln: A Photobiography To Be a Slave Rifles For Watie
Killer Angels Jeffrey Trail updated 7 th The Giver by Lois Lowry Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi The Outsiders by SE Hinton 7 th GATE The Giver by Lois Lowry The Sword in the Stone The Outsiders by SE Hinton 8 th Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson Call of the Wild by Jack London Nothing But the Truth by Avi 8 th GATE Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson Nothing But the Truth by Avi Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain