Fiction Unit: Weeks 1-4
· "Poison," Roald Dahl
· "The Most Dangerous Game," Richard Connell
· "The Interlopers," Saki
· "The Cask of Amontillado," Edgar Allan Poe
· "The Scarlet Ibis," James Hurst
· "The Lady or the Tiger," Frank Stockton (Honors only)
· "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber
"Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut (Honors only)
· The Odyssey, Homer
Drama Unit: Weeks 8-10
· Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
· Excerpts from other various drama pieces
Nonfiction Unit: Weeks 11-13
· Various newspaper articles
· Excerpts from various biographies/autobiographies
· Historical speeches and essays
· Editorials
· Editorial Cartoons
· Journals
Poetry: Week 14-16
· Selected poems from Dickinson, Whitman, Sandburg, cummings, Wordsworth, Giovanni, Roethke, Shakespeare, Frost, and others
EOC Review: Week 16-18
Along with the above readings, students will work throughout the semester on the following:
· Vocabulary
· Literary Terms
· Writing
· Research
· Grammar, Grammar, and more Grammar!!