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Common Core ELA Texts Illustrating the Complexity, Quality, & Range of Student Reading 6-12
These books mentioned are some of the most taught texts that currently exist in the American literary canon. Of these eighteen books only four of these authors are female and only one of them is non-white.
"Below are just some examples of books that are generally considered part of the literary canon:
The Odyssey by Homer (750 BC)
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (1320)
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (1400)
Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1606)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1818)
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1869)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884)
Ulysses by James Joyce (1920)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
1984 by George Orwell (1949)
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1951)
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967)
Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)"
(From https://www.tckpublishing.com/the-literary-canon)
The third bar graph presented on this page depicts various literary texts along with statistics regarding its usage in AP literature classrooms. As the bar graph descends, the books depicted decrease in classroom usage. As the graph, descends the number of authors of color increases. Essentially, the graph depicts how authors of color are less frequently studied in the classroom.
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