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Villa Walsh Academy
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT - READING LIST 2010-2011
GRADE 7
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SUMMER |
SCHOOL YEAR |
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That Was Then, This Is Now (Hinton) |
Johnny Tremain (E. Forbes) |
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The Secret Garden (Burnett) |
* A Christmas Carol (Dickens) |
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The Giver (Lowry) |
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Twain) |
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Taylor) |
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GRADE 8
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SUMMER |
SCHOOL YEAR |
|
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Smith) |
To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee) |
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Crispin: The Cross of Lead (Avi) |
Lord of the Flies (Golding) |
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Animal Farm (Orwell) |
The Diary of Anne Frank (Frank) |
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson) |
*Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) |
GRADE 9
|
SUMMER |
SCHOOL YEAR |
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Mythology (Hamilton) |
The Red Badge of Courage (Crane) |
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The Chosen (Potok) |
The Odyssey – Fagles Translation (Homer) |
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The Crucible (Miller) |
Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck) |
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
(Douglass) |
*Julius Caesar (Shakespeare) |
GRADE 10
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SUMMER |
SCHOOL YEAR |
|
1984 (Orwell) |
* Macbeth (Shakespeare) |
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Jane Eyre (Bronte) |
Great Expectations (Dickens) |
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A Man For All Seasons (Bolt) |
Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf) |
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Pride & Prejudice (Austen) |
The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde) |
* indicates selections from text
GRADE 11
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SUMMER |
SCHOOL YEAR |
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The Catcher In the Rye (Salinger) |
*Walden (Thoreau) |
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A Farewell to Arms (Hemingway) |
*Moby Dick (Melville) |
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The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne) |
Death of a Salesman (Miller) |
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My Antonia (Cather) |
Invisible Man (Ellison) |
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The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) |
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain) |
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Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck) |
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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their (Alvarez)
Accents |
ADVANCED PLACEMENT
GRADE 11
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SUMMER |
SCHOOL YEAR |
|
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain) |
Walden (Thoreau) |
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The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne) |
Light in August (Faulkner) |
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Catcher in the Rye (Salinger) |
Moby Dick (Melville) |
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Death of a Salesman (Miller) |
My Antonia (Cather) |
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A Farewell to Arms (Hemingway) |
King Lear (Shakespeare) |
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The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) |
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Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck) |
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Invisible Man (Ellison) |
*Indicates selections from the text
WORLD LITERATURE
GRADE 12
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SUMMER |
SCHOOL YEAR |
|
The Stranger (Camus) |
* The Metamorphosis (Kafka) |
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Siddhartha (Hesse) |
Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky) |
|
Rebecca (DuMaurier) |
Hamlet (Shakespeare) |
|
A Portrait of the Artist As
A Young Man (Joyce) |
* The Inferno (Dante) |
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* Oedipus Rex (Sophocles) |
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Wuthering Heights (Bronte) |
* Indicates selections from text
PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE
GRADE 12
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SUMMER |
SCHOOL YEAR |
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The Agony and the Ecstasy (Stone) |
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Pirsig) |
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Demian (Hesse) |
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Night (Weisel) |
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Beckett (Jean Anouilh) |
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The Power and the Glory (Graham Greene) |
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Stoppard) |