Novels Read
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Novels Read
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Each ELA course in Middle and High School includes novels, plays, and/or feature films to be used as core instructional pieces for all students in that course. These core instructional pieces are also supplemented by additional texts to be selected from a pre-approved list by either the teacher or the student. The full list of core and supplemental texts by grade level can be found below.
6th Grade
7th Grade
8th Grade
9th Grade
10th Grade
11th Grade
Required
The Breadwinner
by Deborah Ellis
The Lightning Thief
by Rick Riordan
Teacher Choice
The Breadwinner
(Film) (2017)
A Cry in the Wild
(Film) (1990)
He Name Me Malala
(Film) (2015)
A Wrinkle in Time
(Film) (2018)
Required
The Giver
by Lois Lowry
The Outsiders
by S.E. Hinton
Teacher Choice
The Giver
(Film) (2014)
The Outsiders
(Film) (1983)
Student Choice
One of:
Ahimsa
by Supriya Kelkar
Full Cicada Moon
by Marilyn Hilton
The Skin I Am In
by Sharon Flake
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
by Grace Lin
English
Required
The Diary of Anne Frank
(Stage Play)
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
Lord of the Flies
(Film)
The Monkey's Paw
(Animated Film)
Student Choice
One of:
All of Me
by Chris Baron
Forget Me Not
by Ellie Terry
Long Way Down
by Jason Reynolds
Other Words for Home
by Jasmine Warga
A Time to Dance
by Padma Venkatraman
White Rose
by Kip Wilson
Essentials
Required
Fever: 1793
by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games
(Film) (2012)
Essentials
Required
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Teacher Choice
Anthem
by Ayn Rand
Romeo & Juliet
(Film) (1996)
Student Choice
One of:
The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird: A Graphic Novel
by Fred Fordham
English
Required
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Teacher Choice
Anthem
by Ayn Rand
Romeo & Juliet
(Film) (1996)
Student Choice
One of:
The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Academic
Required
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Teacher Choice
Love, Hate, & Other Filters
by Samira Ahmed
Romeo & Juliet
(Film)
Tell the Wolves I'm Home
by Carol Burnt Rifka
Student Choice
One of:
The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Honors
Required
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
Love, Hate, & Other Filters
by Samira Ahmed
The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Teacher Choice
Romeo & Juliet
(Film)
Student Choice
One of:
The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Essentials
Required
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Illustrated Man
(Excerpts) by Ray Bradbury
A Long Way Gone
(Excerpts) by Ishmael Beah
The Odyssey
(Excerpts) by Homer
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
Teacher Choice
The Hunger Games
(Film) (2012)
The Maze Runner
(Film) (2014)
Student Choice
Gone
by Michael Grant
The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
The Maze Runner
by James Dashner
English
Required
The Chocolate War
by Robert Cormier
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
Sold
by Patricia McCormick
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
Twelve Angry Men
by Reginald Rose
Teacher Choice
The Chocolate War
(Film) (1988)
Fahrenheit 451
(Film) (2018)
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
(Film) (1979)
Twelve Angry Men
(Film) (1997)
Academic
Required
The Girl with Seven Names
by Lee Hyeon-seo
Sold
by Patricia McCormick
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
Tuesdays with Morrie
by Mitch Albom
Teacher Choice
Twelve Angry Men
by Reginald Rose
The Fifth Wave
by Rick Yancey
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
The Hunger Games
(Film) (2012)
Valkyrie
(Film) (2008)
Honors
Required
The Aeneid
(Excerpts) by Virgil
Blood Diamond
(Film) (2006)
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
The Illiad
(Excerpts) by Homer
The Inferno
(Excerpts) by Dante
A Long Way Gone
by Ishmael Beah
The Odyssey
(Excerpts) by Homer
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
Teacher Choice
Fed Up
(Documentary Film) (2014)
The Social Dilemma
(Documentary Film) (2020)
Essentials
Required
All My Sons
by Arthur Miller
The Glass Castle
by Jeannette Walls
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Teacher Choice
The Glass Castle
(Film) (2017)
Pay It Forward
(Film) (2000)
Seven Pounds
(Film) (2008)
English
Required
All My Sons
by Arthur Miller
The Freedom Writers Diary
by Erin Gruwell
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
When Stars are Scattered
by Omar Mohamed and Victoria Jamieson
Pay It Forward
(Film) (2000)
Teacher Choice
The Freedom Writers
(Film) (2007)
The Great Gatsby
(Film) (2013)
Seven Pounds
(Film) (2008)
Student Choice
One of:
They Called Us Enemy
by George Takei (Graphic Novel)
OR
The Glass Castle
by Jeannette Walls
The Glass Castle
(Film) (2017)
OR
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
by Mitch Albom (novel)
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
(Film) (2004)"
Academic
Required
All My Sons
by Arthur Miller
American Like Me
(Excerpts)
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Teacher Choice
Dead Poets Society
(Film) (1989)
Pay it Forward
(Film) (2000)
Seven Pounds
(Film) (2008)
The Truman Show
(Film) (1998)
Student Choice
One of:
The Glass Castle
by Jeannette Walls
The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
One of:
They Called Us Enemy
by George Takei
When the Emperor was Divine
by Julie Otsuka
March Trilogy
by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
One of:
Fences
by August Wilson
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
by Mitch Albom
The Poet X
by Elizabeth Acevedo
Honors
Required
All My Sons
by Arthur Miller
American Like Me
(Excerpts)
The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
Dead Poets Society
(Film) (1989)
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
They Called Us Enemy
by George Takei (Graphic Novel)
Student Choice
One of:
Fences
by August Wilson
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
by Mitch Albom
The Poet X
by Elizabeth Acevedo
AP
Required
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
Self Reliance
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fences
by August Wilson
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
1984
by George Orwell
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
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Each ELA course in Middle and High School includes novels, plays, and/or feature films to be used as core instructional pieces for all students in that course. These core instructional pieces are also supplemented by additional texts to be selected from a pre-approved list by either the teacher or the student. The full list of core and supplemental texts by grade level can be found below.
6th Grade
7th Grade
8th Grade
9th Grade
10th Grade
11th Grade
Required
The Breadwinner
by Deborah Ellis
The Lightning Thief
by Rick Riordan
Teacher Choice
The Breadwinner
(Film) (2017)
A Cry in the Wild
(Film) (1990)
He Name Me Malala
(Film) (2015)
A Wrinkle in Time
(Film) (2018)
Required
The Giver
by Lois Lowry
The Outsiders
by S.E. Hinton
Teacher Choice
The Giver
(Film) (2014)
The Outsiders
(Film) (1983)
Student Choice
One of:
Ahimsa
by Supriya Kelkar
Full Cicada Moon
by Marilyn Hilton
The Skin I Am In
by Sharon Flake
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
by Grace Lin
English
Required
The Diary of Anne Frank
(Stage Play)
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
Lord of the Flies
(Film)
The Monkey's Paw
(Animated Film)
Student Choice
One of:
All of Me
by Chris Baron
Forget Me Not
by Ellie Terry
Long Way Down
by Jason Reynolds
Other Words for Home
by Jasmine Warga
A Time to Dance
by Padma Venkatraman
White Rose
by Kip Wilson
Essentials
Required
Fever: 1793
by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games
(Film) (2012)
Essentials
Required
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Teacher Choice
Anthem
by Ayn Rand
Romeo & Juliet
(Film) (1996)
Student Choice
One of:
The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird: A Graphic Novel
by Fred Fordham
English
Required
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Teacher Choice
Anthem
by Ayn Rand
Romeo & Juliet
(Film) (1996)
Student Choice
One of:
The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Academic
Required
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Teacher Choice
Love, Hate, & Other Filters
by Samira Ahmed
Romeo & Juliet
(Film)
Tell the Wolves I'm Home
by Carol Burnt Rifka
Student Choice
One of:
The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Honors
Required
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
Love, Hate, & Other Filters
by Samira Ahmed
The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Teacher Choice
Romeo & Juliet
(Film)
Student Choice
One of:
The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Essentials
Required
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Illustrated Man
(Excerpts) by Ray Bradbury
A Long Way Gone
(Excerpts) by Ishmael Beah
The Odyssey
(Excerpts) by Homer
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
Teacher Choice
The Hunger Games
(Film) (2012)
The Maze Runner
(Film) (2014)
Student Choice
Gone
by Michael Grant
The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
The Maze Runner
by James Dashner
English
Required
The Chocolate War
by Robert Cormier
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
Sold
by Patricia McCormick
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
Twelve Angry Men
by Reginald Rose
Teacher Choice
The Chocolate War
(Film) (1988)
Fahrenheit 451
(Film) (2018)
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
(Film) (1979)
Twelve Angry Men
(Film) (1997)
Academic
Required
The Girl with Seven Names
by Lee Hyeon-seo
Sold
by Patricia McCormick
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
Tuesdays with Morrie
by Mitch Albom
Teacher Choice
Twelve Angry Men
by Reginald Rose
The Fifth Wave
by Rick Yancey
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
The Hunger Games
(Film) (2012)
Valkyrie
(Film) (2008)
Honors
Required
The Aeneid
(Excerpts) by Virgil
Blood Diamond
(Film) (2006)
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
The Illiad
(Excerpts) by Homer
The Inferno
(Excerpts) by Dante
A Long Way Gone
by Ishmael Beah
The Odyssey
(Excerpts) by Homer
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
Teacher Choice
Fed Up
(Documentary Film) (2014)
The Social Dilemma
(Documentary Film) (2020)
Essentials
Required
All My Sons
by Arthur Miller
The Glass Castle
by Jeannette Walls
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Teacher Choice
The Glass Castle
(Film) (2017)
Pay It Forward
(Film) (2000)
Seven Pounds
(Film) (2008)
English
Required
All My Sons
by Arthur Miller
The Freedom Writers Diary
by Erin Gruwell
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
When Stars are Scattered
by Omar Mohamed and Victoria Jamieson
Pay It Forward
(Film) (2000)
Teacher Choice
The Freedom Writers
(Film) (2007)
The Great Gatsby
(Film) (2013)
Seven Pounds
(Film) (2008)
Student Choice
One of:
They Called Us Enemy
by George Takei (Graphic Novel)
OR
The Glass Castle
by Jeannette Walls
The Glass Castle
(Film) (2017)
OR
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
by Mitch Albom (novel)
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
(Film) (2004)"
Academic
Required
All My Sons
by Arthur Miller
American Like Me
(Excerpts)
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Teacher Choice
Dead Poets Society
(Film) (1989)
Pay it Forward
(Film) (2000)
Seven Pounds
(Film) (2008)
The Truman Show
(Film) (1998)
Student Choice
One of:
The Glass Castle
by Jeannette Walls
The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
One of:
They Called Us Enemy
by George Takei
When the Emperor was Divine
by Julie Otsuka
March Trilogy
by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
One of:
Fences
by August Wilson
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
by Mitch Albom
The Poet X
by Elizabeth Acevedo
Honors
Required
All My Sons
by Arthur Miller
American Like Me
(Excerpts)
The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
Dead Poets Society
(Film) (1989)
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
They Called Us Enemy
by George Takei (Graphic Novel)
Student Choice
One of:
Fences
by August Wilson
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
by Mitch Albom
The Poet X
by Elizabeth Acevedo
AP
Required
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
Self Reliance
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fences
by August Wilson
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
1984
by George Orwell
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
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