Prentice Hall Grade 9: Click this link for supplemental activities and information about literature.

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” –Emerson

Books

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

Plays

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Short Stories

“The Seventh Man” by Haruki Murakami

“To Build a Fire” by Jack London

“The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe

“The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry

“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber

“Everyday Use” by Alice Walker (repeat)

“The Pit and the Pendulum” by E. A. Poe

“Happy Prince" by Oscar Wilde

“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson

Essays, Excerpts, and Documents

“The Moral Logic of Survivor Guilt” by Nancy Sherman

“I Have a Dream” by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“The Nuclear Tourist” by George Johnson

Poetry

“Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins

“I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman

“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost

“Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll

“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth (sometimes)

“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe

“Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe

“If—” by Rudyard Kipling

“Television” by Roald Dahl

“Confessions of a Recycled Shopping Bag” by John Yau

“Turn Off the TV!” by Bruce Lansky

“Sadie and Maud” by Gwendolyn Brooks

“We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks

“Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden

The Odyssey by Homer