[LM_NET] HIT, SEC: 9th grade required reading

[Amy Jensen <ajensen@WISD.ORG>]

Responses for 9th grade required reading



Something Wicked This Way Comes
To Kill a Mockingbird
Romeo and Juliet (play)
...
Fahrenheit 451
Bless the Beasts and the Children
Romeo and Juliet
The Odyssey
...
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Old Man and the Sea
The Great Gatsby
Old School by Tobias Wolff.

....

Nothing But the Truth, Avi
Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare
The Odyssey, Homer
The Tragedy of Puddin'head Wilson,Twain
To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee
Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury
A Separate Peace, Knowles
Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck

Next year, I might leave off "A Separate Peace" and I'd leave off the Odyssey if it 
was up to me.  I'm not sure what I would replace them with!
....
For the summer, our 9th grade reads Buddha Boy by Kathe Koja.

During the school year, the lit teacher makes a call based on the students'
level and does either To Kill a Mockingbird or The Chocolate War.  And she finishes 
the year with either Romeo and Juliet or Othello.

...
Hot Zone
Anthem
Romeo and Juliet
...
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Odyssey
Romeo and Juliet
The House on Mango Street
Ethan Frome (Pre-AP)
Animal Farm/1984
....
Animal Farm
To Kill a Mockingbird
Romeo & Juliet (in their textbook)
Speak
Lord of the Flies (Honors only)
Ender's Game (Honors only)
....




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Amy Jensen, M.Ed., MLIS
Teacher-Librarian
Waxahachie (TX) ISD
ajensen@wisd.org<mailto:ajensen@wisd.org>
"What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it thinks about 
education."
~Harold Howe, former U.S. Commissioner of Education


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