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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