Good morning,
I have received many responses asking for a HIT. This was tougher than
it seems, most states or even districts do not have recommended
classroom reading lists for each grade level. One of our English
teachers is trying to get the middle and high schools together...we
often have kids who have read a book 2 or 3 times by the time they
graduate..all at different grade levels.
Below is the list of responses I received. It really seems to be up to
each individual English department of each individual school...or each
individual teacher. While autonomy is wonderful, it seems students
would be better served if specific teachers could pick from a specific
"grade level" list, so kids could at least be introduced to many
different classroom novels or lit books.
thanks to those who took the time to reply. My teacher is still
thrilled w/ the input. This list has always been more than helpful
every time and it makes us all look so good to our teachers!
Here is a modified list of what is read at some grades:
12------A Tale of Two Cities
11------Scarlet Letter
10------The Chosen
11------Great Expectations
Our AP classes and preAP classes read many more.
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If you visit our English department's web page most of the teachers
have a list of their required reading during the school year.
Hope this is helpful.
http://creightonprep.creighton.edu/academics/english.html
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I have attached our parallel required reading list. I hope this helps.
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Ginnie:
I do not know of one place to find all the lists you want, but I can
tell
you that Arthur Applebee did a survey of required HS reading and
published
the results. You might do an ERIC search for that document. It is
rather
dated, and one of my doctoral students is replicating that research now.
However, it did list the major works being used nationwide.
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It's harder than I thought. I couldn't find my own school system's
required reading list. But here are a few. The last, Montgomery County,
is considered one of the best school systems in the country.
Jan
http://arlingtonschools.org/Library/summerreadingprogahs.html
http://www.cms.k12.nc.us/allschools/mphs/Website/departments/docs/
summerreading2004.doc
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/readinglists/required/high.shtm
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Good morning, Ginnie,
I have been following the listserv and hoping that you would post the
responses that you received on this topic. Believe it or not, I have
also
been trying to find the same information (and am also looking only for
required titles that are taught in classes, and not recommended or
summer
reading lists). I have been unable to locate a comprehensive list
anywhere
on the web. I have looked at state education sites, but haven't seen
any
lists thus far even for states (such as the Illinois Department of
Education
site).
What I have been doing is going to web sites of individual high schools
and
checking to see if they have web sites for any of their classes. Then,
I
check and see if the syllabus for any of the English classes is
available on
the web, and I check to see what books they teach. This is of course
extremely time consuming. Below are some of the books that I've come
across
and the state that they are taught in. I'd love to see what responses
you
have received!!!
Alabama:
1984
Age of Innocence, The
And Then There Were None
Beowulf
Black Boy
Candide
Canterbury Tales
David Copperfield
Day No Pigs Would Die, A
Ethan Frome
Frankenstein
Glass Menagerie, The
Grapes of Wrath, The
Great Gatsby, The
Gulliver's Travels
Hamlet
Hobbit, The
In Our Time
Invisible Man
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Julius Caesar
Lord of the Flies
Macbeth
Morte D'Arthur
My Antonia
Odyssey, The
Of Mice and Men
Old Man and the Sea, The
One Writer's Beginnings
Paradise Lost
Pearl, The
Romeo and Juliet
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Summer of My German Soldier
Their Eyes Were Watching God
To Kill A Mockingbird
Illinois:
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The
American Short Stories
Antigone
Arthurian Legends
Bread Givers
Cyrano de Bergerac
Dandelion Wine
Death of a Salesman
Farewell to Arms, A
Grapes of Wrath, The
Great Expectations
Great Gatsby
Greek tragedies
Jurassic Park
Les Miserables
Lesson Before Dying, A
Lord of the Flies
Macbeth
Man Who Killed the Deer, The
Night (Elie Wiesel)
October Sky
Old Man and The Sea
Romeo and Juliet
Scarlet Letter, The
Separate Peace, A
Song of the Buffalo Boy
Taming of the Shrew
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Things Fall Apart
To Kill a Mockingbird
Walden
Wuthering Heights
North Carolina:
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The
American Short Stories
Antigone
Arthurian Legends
Bread Givers
Cyrano de Bergerac
Dandelion Wine
Death of a Salesman
Farewell to Arms, A
Grapes of Wrath, The
Great Expectations
Great Gatsby
Greek tragedies
Jurassic Park
Les Miserables
Lesson Before Dying, A
Lord of the Flies
Macbeth
Man Who Killed the Deer, The
Night (Elie Wiesel)
October Sky
Old Man and The Sea
Romeo and Juliet
Scarlet Letter, The
Separate Peace, A
Song of the Buffalo Boy
Taming of the Shrew
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Things Fall Apart
To Kill a Mockingbird
Walden
Wuthering Heights
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Ginnie Genovese
Librarian
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Cienega High School
12775 E. Old Vail Rd.
Vail, AZ 85641
520.762.2969 (office)
520.762.2801 (FAX)
genoveseg@vail.k12.az.us
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