REQUIRED READING LIST FOR 2007-2008 SCHOOL YEAR
SBEC ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
7th English The Pearl John Steinbeck
7th Reach Where the Lilies Bloom Bill and Vera Cleaver
Red Dog Bill Wallace
8th English The Call of the Wild Jack London
April Morning Howard Fast
8th Reach April Morning Howard Fast
The Pearl John Steinbeck
9th English Our Town Thornton Wilder
9th Honors Tuesdays With Morrie Mitch Albom
Our Town Thornton Wilder
10th English A
Separate Peace John Knowles
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
(abridged by Lowell Blair)
The Great Divorce C.S.Lewis
10th Honors
A Separate Peace John Knowles
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
(abridged
by Lowell Blair)
The Great Divorce C.S. Lewis
The Taming of the Shrew William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare
(Barron’s
Shakespeare Made Easy Edition)
Painless Writing Jeffrey Strauser
10 Reach A Separate Peace John
Knowles
11th English The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
11th AP The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
A Lesson Before Dying Ernest Gaines
The Unvanquished William Faulkner
12th English A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
Choose one of these three:
·
Othello William
Shakespeare
·
The
Merchant of Venice William
Shakespeare
·
Taming of
the Shrew William
Shakespeare
12th AP Hamlet William Shakespeare
Macbeth William Shakespeare
(One to be chosen)
Choose one of these two:
·
Wuthering
Heights Emily
Bronte
·
Tess of
the D’Urbervilles Thomas
Hardy
Choose
one of these four:
· A Midsummer Night’s Dream William Shakespeare
·
Taming of
the Shrew William
Shakespeare
·
King Lear William
Shakespeare
·
Othello William
Shakespeare