English 9

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

Novel of Choice

Accelerated
English 9

Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

A selection from The New York Times bestseller list

Woe Is I: The Grammarphobes Guide to Better English in Plain English by Patricia T. O'Conner

English 10

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Novel of Choice

Accelerated
English 10

On the Road by Jack Kerouac  or Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon

Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck

English 11

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Another Play of Choice

Accelerated
English 11

Razor's Edge by Somerset Maugham

Overachievers by Alexandra Robbins

English 12

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon

A selection from The New York Times bestseller list

Shakespeare

Read and annotate background information on the life and times of William Shakespeare

Othello

Contemporary
Novels

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon

Memoir of choice

AP English

Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes Saavedra

AP Comp

The Writing Life by Annie Dillard

Seize the Day by Saul Bellow