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Each student must read the required text and choose a book from the optional text list. Honors students read 2 required texts.
Required text:
The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary Blackwood
Optional texts:
The Samurai's Tale by Erik Hauggard
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Bleachers by John Grisham
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Required text:
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury, Ray (honor's required)
Optional texts:
Secret life of bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Curious Incident of the dog at night by Mark Haddon
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
Educated Death by Kate Flora
Required text:
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Honors Required)
Optional texts:
Cannery Row by Steinbeck, John
Secret Father by James Carroll
Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Things they Carried by Tim O'Brien
Required text:
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (Honors required)
Optional texts:
The Things they Carried by Tim O'Brien
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sajie
On the Beach by Nevile Shute
Mountain Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
Escape from Slavery by Francis Bok
Students will read four required works:
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
"Job" from the bible (King James, Jerusalem or New American) - read online at Project Gutenberg
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Things they Carried by Tim O'Brien
Recommended for enrichment and background on allusions, but not required
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Film, All the King’s Men, directed by Steven Zaillian and starring Sean Penn.