“A good book is an event in my life.”~Stendhal, France (1783-1842)
If I am not for me, who will be for me? And when I am for myself alone, what am I?
And if not now, then when? -Hillel the Elder, 1 C.E. born in Babylon
English 9 Honors & 9 Academic
Greek Mythology-Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey
Daedalus & Icarus, Eurydice & Orpheus, Demeter, Persphone & Hades,
Gaia & Uranus, Uranus-Cronos-Zeus, Sisyphus, Hera & Io
Prometheus, Medusa, and more.
Coming of Age Short Stories
Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees
Renee Watson's Piecing Me Together
George Bernard Shaw's The Importance of Being Earnest and Pygmalion (honors)
Shakespeare's JULIUS CAESAR & ROMEO AND JULIET (honors)
Various Poetry-/www.poetryfoundation.org/collections/101640/celebrating-black-history
English 12
Beowulf
Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake
THE LARAMIE PROJECT
August Wilson's FENCES & THE PIANO LESSON
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian
The Legends of King Arthur
The Black Panther
Sir Gawain & the Green Knight
Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth
Various Poetry
English 11 Honors
John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men
Biographical texts and film on civil rights activist Cesar Chavez
Jason Reynold's and Brandon Kiely's All American Boys
"Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
Essays and Poetry by Hanif Abdurraquib
MLA Research on independent topic with a paper and presentation
Possibly:
Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience, Ralph Waldo Emerson
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby or
J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
Independent Reading Projects & Designing Mythology Board Games after studying The Odyssey
