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)

Epic Poetry:   Weeks 5-7

·        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!!