This course involves plenty of reading and writing in preparation for college, the workforce, and every day life.

 

Here are the readings we will be doing in class:

 

- The Crucible

- Of Mice and Men 

- The Great Gatsby 

- A Raisin in the Sun

- short stories by American authors including:

            - Edgar Allan Poe

            - Washington Irving

            - Nathaniel Hawthorne

            - Mark Twain

- various non-fiction readings from the textbook

- poetry by American authors

 

- student selected literature circle novels