2010-2011

What will we read?

Period 2 and 4: Freshmen Honors

• Expect to read a book per quarter for pleasure (SSR), poetry, fiction, drama and nonfiction in the textbook, as well as independent longer works.  The literature will be thematically focused, highlighting such things as growing pains, trials and tribulations, rites of passage and more.

Period 7: Freshmen Level Two

• Expect to read a book per semester for pleasure (SSR), poetry, fiction, drama and nonfiction in the textbook, as well as independent longer works.  The literature will be thematically focused, highlighting such things as growing pains, trials and tribulations, rites of passage and more.

Period 5: Junior American Literature Level Three

• Expect to read poetry, fiction, nonfiction and drama from the textbook, as well as independent works.  The literature will highlight American writers and what they were responding to historically in our country at that time.

Period 6: Senior Poetry:  The Power of Words (unleveled semester course)

• Expect to read a variety of poems by well-known and obscure poets, as well as by fellow students.   

Grade 9 Textbook:

• McDougal-Littel’s Language of Literature (a thematic exploration of many literary genre). www.classzone.com/books/language_of_lit_gr09/index.cfm

Grade 9 longer works (not all are required):

• House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
• The Odyssey by Homer
• Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
• Oedipus Rex by Sophocle
• My Antonia by Willa Cather 

Grade 11 Textbook:

• McDougal-Littel's Language of Literature (a chronological exploration of American Literature) www.classzone.com/books/language_of_lit_gr11/index.cfm

Grade 11 longer works (possibilities):

• The Crucible by Arthur Miller
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathanial Hawthorne
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• The Abington Mariner (weekly town newspaper) 
• The Patriot Ledger (news of Quincy and surrounding towns)
• The Enterprise (news of Brockton and surrounding towns)
• The Greenwave Gazette (school newspaper)
• Poetry Out Loud (National Recitation Competition)
• Poetry 180 
• Favorite Poem Project
• Purdue University Owl Writing Lab 
• Guide to Writing Research Papers
• Free Rice (vocabulary builder) 
• Merriam Webster online dictionary (definitions, etymology, etc.)
• Dictionary.com (etymology, pronunciation, helpful hyperlinks) 
• The College Board (SAT, AP information) 
• High School Ace:  Homework Help