Pittsfield High School
English Department Reading List
September 2011

Grade 9 | Grade 10 | Grade 11 | AP Language | Grade 12 | AP Literature |

• Grade 9
  
  

  Novels

  A Separate Peace
  Light in the Forest
  Lord of the Flies
  Silas Marner
  Tales and Poems of E. A. Poe
  The Fall of the House of Usher
  The House on Mango Street
  The Pearl
  To Kill a Mockingbird

  Drama

  Romeo and Juliet
  West Side Story
  12 Angry Men

  Anthologies and Handbooks

  Basic Skills in English, Book 3
  Buckle Down on Massachusetts Language Arts
  Exploring Life Through Literature
  Four Novels for Adventure
  Ketchup on Reading, 3rd edition
  Prentice Hall Literature Gold Vanguard
  Warriner’s English Grammar and Composition, 3rd Course

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• Grade 10

Novels

A Death in the Family
A Man for all Seasons
Bridge to the Moon
Face of a Hero
Fahrenheit 451
Great Expectations
Maitland’s Kid

Of Mice and Men

Profiles in Courage
Summer
The Catcher in the Rye
The Darkest Secret
The Glass Menagerie
The Old Man and the Sea

Drama

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Othello
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest

Anthologies and Handbooks

Reading Literature, Blue Level
Warriner’s English Grammar and Composition, 4th Course

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• Grade 11

Novels

Babbitt
Civil Disobedience
Ethan Frome
In Cold Blood
Inherit the Wind
Intruder in the Dust
My Antonia
Rappaccini’s Daughter
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Great Gatsby
The House of Seven Gables
The Jazz Age
The Red Badge of Courage
The Scarlett Letter

Drama

A Raisin in the Sun
Death of a Salesman
The Crucible
Thorton Wilder, 3 Plays

Anthologies and Handbooks

Basic Skills in English, Book 5
The American Dream in Literature
The American Experience: Fiction
Warriner’s English Grammar and Composition, 5th Course

The Harlem Renaissance

no textbooks are currently available

AP Language

A Tale of Two Cities
Civil Disobedience
Moby Dick
Shakespeare’s plays

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• Grade 12

Novels

A Man for All Seasons
A Prayer for Owen Meany
A Tale of Two Cities
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
All Quiet on the Western Front
Animal Farm
Billy Budd
Brave New World
Idylls of the King
Inherit the Wind
Ivanhoe
J.B.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Return of the Native
Siddartha
The Book of Job
The Canterbury Tales
The House of Sand and Fog
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Ox-Bow Incident
The Plague
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
The Things They Carried
Walden Two
Yankee from Olympus

Drama

Cyrano de Bergerac
Hamlet
Macbeth
Twelfth Night

Anthologies and Handbooks

Basic Skills in English, Book 6
Insight English Literature Satire
Shakespeare of London
The Search for Self
Warriner’s English Grammar and Composition, Complete Course
Writing Themes About Literature, 7th Ed.

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• AP Literature

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  A Prayer for Owen Meany
  The Aeneid
  The Odyssey
  As I Lay Dying
  Dubliners
  Frankenstein
  King Lear
  Lord Jim
  The Heart of Darkness
  The Portrait of Dorian Gray
  Their Eyes Were Watching God

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