American Literature Identity: Personal, National, and Cultural Teachers of English 11 and C. P. 11 will teach one work from the following list



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State College Area School District

Secondary English Department


11th grade

Revised Booklist

2009-2010
Common/core titles or themes and/or authors which will be studied by all English 11 and College Prep English 11students:
American Literature - Identity: Personal, National, and Cultural

Teachers of English 11 and C. P. 11 will teach one work from the following list:
Miller, Arthur The Crucible

Lawrence, Jerome and

Robert E. Lee The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail

Wilson, August Fences



Teachers of English 11 and C. P. 11 will teach two works from the following list:

Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby

Grimes, Niki Bronx Masquerade (English 11 only)

Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird (until 2010-2011)

O’Brien, Tim The Things They Carried

Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John Of Mice and Men
Common/core titles or themes and/or authors which will be studied by all Advanced English 11 students:
Teachers of Advanced 11 will teach one play from the following list:
Miller, Arthur The Crucible

Lawrence, Jerome and

Robert E. Lee The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail

Wilder, Thornton Our Town

Williams, Tennessee The Glass Menagerie
Teachers of Advanced 11 will teach two works from the following list:
Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby

Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God

Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms

O’Brien, Tim The Things They Carried

Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath

In addition, all College Prep English 11 and Advanced English 11 students will study the works of the following American authors:

Dickinson, Emily

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thoreau, Henry David

Whitman, Walt
Titles that may be used as required reading for full class instruction:

Kirszner, Laurie and

Stephen Mandell Patterns for College Writing

Lunsford, Andrea A. and

John J. Ruszkiewiez Everything’s an Argument

Prentice Hall (publ.) Literature: The American Experience

Scott Foresman (publ.) The United States in Literature

Angelou, Maya I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Cather, Willa My Antonia

Douglass, Frederick The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Ehrenreich, Barbara Nickel and Dimed

Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby

Grimes, Nikki Bronx Masquerade

Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Scarlet Letter

Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms

Krakauer, John Into the Wild

Lawrence, Jerome and

Robert E. Lee The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail

Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird (until 2010)

London, Jack Call of the Wild

O’Brien, Tim The Things They Carried

Simon, Neil Brighton Beach Memoirs

Sontag, Susan Regarding the Pain of Others

Steinbeck, John Of Mice and Men

Steinbeck, John The Pearl

Wilder, Thornton Our Town

Williams, Tennessee The Glass Menagerie
Titles that may be used ONLY as optional/student choice selections:
Bennett, Jay Skinhead

Chopin, Kate The Awakening

Chute, Carolyn The Beans of Egypt, Maine

Cormier, Robert The Chocolate War

Crutcher, Chris The Crazy Horse Electric Game

Garland, Sherry Song of the Buffalo

Guterson, David Snow Falling on Cedars

Hemingway, Ernest The Sun Also Rises

Kerouac, Jack On the Road

Kingsolver, Barbara Animal Dreams

McCarthy, Cormac All the Pretty Horses

Morrison, Toni Beloved

Naylor, Gloria Mama Day

Pelzer, David A Child Called It

Potok, Chaim The Chosen

Randle, Kristen D. Breaking Rank

Salinger, J. D. The Catcher in the Rye

Simon, Neil Brighton Beach Memoirs

Smiley, Jane A Thousand Acres

Steinbeck, John East of Eden

Tan, Amy The Joy Luck Club

Twain, Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Walker, Alice The Color Purple

West, Dorothy The Wedding

Williams-Garcia, Rita Like Sisters on the Homefront

Wharton, Edith Ethan Frome

Wright, Richard Black Boy

Wright, Richard Native Son


Thematic/Genre-Based Collections
Drama – The American Family

Brighton Beach Memoirs

Fences

The Glass Menagerie
African-American Literature

Beloved

Black Boy

The Color Purple

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas

Mama Day

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Like Sisters on the Homefront

Native Son

Their Eyes Were Watching God

The Wedding
Multicultural Literature

Animal Dreams

The Chosen

The Joy Luck Club

Snow Falling on Cedars
Memoir

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas
American Classics (Novels)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Awakening

My Antonia

East of Eden

A Farewell to Arms

The Grapes of Wrath

The Great Gatsby

Of Mice and Men

The Scarlet Letter

The Sun Also Rises
Award-Winning Works

Beloved (Nobel Prize for Literature)

Bronze Masquerade (Coretta Scoot King Award)



The Color Purple (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, National Book Award)

A Thousand Acres (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

East of Eden (Nobel Prize for Literature)
War Novels

A Farewell to Arms

The Things They Carried
Gender Issues

The Awakening

The Color Purple

Their Eyes Were Watching God

A Thousand Acres

The Scarlet Letter
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