Novels, Short Stories, Plays and Poetry We will be Reading this year:

VOCABULARY LIST

Africa and the Middle East

Required Texts:

Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing

Suggested:

"Civil Peace" by Chinua Achebe

"Pride" by Dahlia Ravilovitch

Asia

Required Texts:

"In a Grove"

"Like the Sun" by R.K. Narayan

"The Cabuliwallah" by Rabindranath Tagore

Suggested:

"Thoughts of Hanoi" by Nguyen Thi Vinh

"All" by Bei Dao

"Also All" by Shu Ting

"The Clustering Clouds" by Minamoto no Toshiyori

"When I went to visit..." Ki no Tsurauki

"One cannot ask loneliness..." Preiest Jakuren

"Was it that I went to sleep..." Ono Komochi

"When Mr. Pizada Came to Dine" Jhumpa Lahiri

"The Analects" Various

Eastern Europe

Required:

Antigone by Sophocles

Suggested:

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

Short Stories

Required:

"The Bridegroom" Alexander Pushkin

Suggested:

"Before the Law"

"How Much Land Does One Man Need"

"A Problem"

"A Man"

"Damon and Pythias"

Latin/Central America

Required:

"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"

The Alchemist

"Fear"

"A Walk to the Jetty"

Optional:

"The Street"

"Work that Counts"

100 Years of Solitude

100 Years of Solitude (Audiobook)

Shakespeare:

Julius Caesar (text)

Julius Caesar (play)

Optional:

Othello (text)

Othello (play)

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• English Curriculum Guide