Grade 9
Animal Farm – George Orwell (There will be a character study assignment first week of school.)
Night – Elie Wiesel (Have this work read for a class workshop)
Free choice – from the District list (You will have a visual and oral report assignment first week of school.)
Grade 10
The Bean Trees – Barbara Kingsolver
How to Read Literature Like a Professor—Thomas C. Foster
Grade 11
Medea – Eurypides
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof or Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams
How to Read Literature Like a Professor—Thomas C. Foster
Grade 12
Othello – William Shakespeare (There will be a character study assignment first week of school.)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead – Tom Stoppard (First day of school, turn in 3-page journal entry defining expressionism and noting expressionistic elements throughout the play. Describe them and give the significance or effect on the audience/reader for each example.)
A Doll’s House – Henrik Ibsen (There will be a comparison assignment with first play on IB syllabus)