Reading List of Novels

Literature:  Novels and Plays

Pleasant Plains High School

English Department

 

English I

The Odyssey

Romeo and Juliet

Reading Projects - student choice

To Kill a Mockingbird

 

Summer Reading/Accelerated English I

  • Joy Luck Club
  • *Great Expectations
  • Maus I & Maus II
  • Of Mice and Men
  • A Separate Peace
  • Cry, the Beloved Country

Accelerated English I

Romeo & Juliet

Book Report - student choice

Mythology / The Odyssey

To Kill a Mockingbird

Lord of the Flies

English II

Julius Caesar

When Legends Die

Night

Summer Reading/Accelerated English I To Accelerated English II

  • *Jane Eyre
  • 1984
  • The Tempest
  • Wuthering Heights
  • Brave New World
  • Tess of D'Urbervilles
  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Accelerated English II

Beowulf

Canterbury Tales

Macbeth

Animal Farm

English III

The Crucible

Quarterly Reading Projects - student choice

Summer Reading/Accelerated English II To Accelerated English III

  • *Old Man and the Sea
  • *The Moon is Down

*One of the following:

  • My Antonia
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • Catcher in the Rye

Accelerated English III

The Crucible

The Red Badge of Courage

Spoon River Anthology

Selected Poetry

English IV

[Dual Credit Course]

[LLCC Texts]

Com 111: Reading for Writers

Com 112: Story and Structure

Summer Reading/Accelerated English III To A.P. English

  • Death of a Salesman
  • Raisin in the Sun
  • *The Great Gatsby
  • Catch 22
  • The Metamorphosis
  • Invisible Man
  • The Awakening

Advanced Placement English

Oedipus Rex

Hamlet

Othello

Pride and Prejudice

Frankenstein

The Glass Menagerie

·         Other selected poems, short stories, and plays

·         "Writing Themes about Literature"(as needed for writing assignments

·         Additional Shakespeare play – student choice

 

 

* Indicates Required Reading