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Reading

September 24–October 1 is Banned Book Week 2011

ALA Top 100 Banned Books 1990-2000

ALA Top 100 Challenged & Banned Books 2000-2009

ALA Banned & Challenged Classics

Radcliffe Banned & Challenged Books

 

Recommended Reading for College-Bound Students

                

Top Books for Teens:

www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists/bestofbest2000.html

www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teenreading/teenstopten/Complete2005TTTNoms.pdf

 

Top 100 Novels:

www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html

www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100rivallist.html

 

Top 100 American Speeches of the 20th Century:

www.news.wisc.edu/misc/speeches/

 

Free e-books:

                 www.4literature.net/

                 www.bartleby.com/

                 www.classicreader.com/

                 http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/genrelist.html

                 www.underthesun.cc/Classics/

                 www.pagebypagebooks.com/

                 http://promo.net/pg/

                 http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

                 http://classiclit.about.com/

                 http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/

                 http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/

 

Grammar & Vocabulary

Unsure about how to use “to,” “two,” or “too” or other homophones? Go to

www.cooper.com/alan/homonym_list.html

 

Find correct spellings and definitions at

www.dictionary.com/

 

The “Must” Words

Words every student should know before graduating

 

Need to know your prepositions? Go to

http://grammar.englishclub.com/prepositions-list.htm

 

Need help with grammar? Go to

http://encarta.msn.com/column/grammarmain.asp

http://grammar.englishclub.com/

www.grammarlady.com/

 

Research Information

General Reference Center Gold

Student Resource Center Gold

Checklist for source credibility

 

Fun Stuff

Word Games

JOTTO

                 www.popcap.com/

 

 ACT Prep

                 www.act.org

 

ESL Websites

http://webguide.englishclub.com/Vocabulary/

www.englishraven.com/Main.html

 

 

Literature

Mrs. Ricketts’ ning site

 

PowerPoint Presentations

Edgar Allan Poe

Free Man of Color (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)

Hero Quest

Introduction to Mark Twain (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)

Introduction to Realism (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)

Plot Structure

 

English 9

Short Stories

                 “Raymond’s Run” by Toni Cade Bambara

                 “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

                                  Video version

                 “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell

                 “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson

                                  Video versions

                 “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury”

                                  Video versions

                 “The Open Window” by Saki

                 “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne

                 “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin

                 “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe

                 “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant

                 “The Story of the Bad Little Boy” by Mark Twain

Epic Poem

                 Odyssey by Homer

Drama

                 Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare

                 No Fear Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet 

                                  by William Shakespeare (a plain English version)

Novels 

                 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

                                  To Kill a Mockingbird – online text

                                  To Kill a Mockingbird – Character Notes

                                  To Kill a Mockingbird – Character Map

                                  To Kill a Mockingbird – Map of Maycomb

                                  To Kill a Mockingbird – Vocabulary

                                  To Kill a Mockingbird – Allusions

 

English 10

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

 

American Literature 11

Native American Literature

                 “I Will Fight No More Forever” by Chief Joseph

                 The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

                 “Song of the Sky Loom”

Puritan Literature

                 Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

                 The Crucible by Arthur Miller

                 “Of Plymouth Plantation” by William Bradford

                 “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne

                 “The Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne

                 “The Birth Mark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne

                 “Upon the Burning of Our House” by Anne Bradstreet

                 “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards

The Age of Reason

                 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

                 “The Declaration of Independence” by Thomas Jefferson

                 “Farewell Address to the Nation” by George Washington

                 “Speech in the Virginia Convention” by Patrick Henry

                 The Constitution of the United States of America

Romanticism

                 “The Devil in the Manuscript” by Nathaniel Hawthorne

                 “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving

                 “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe

                 “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe

                 “The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allan Poe

                 “The Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne

                 “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe

                 “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” by Nathaniel Hawthorne

                 Emily Dickinson poetry

                 Walt Whitman poetry

                 “The Raven” on YouTube by Edgar Allan Poe

Realism

                 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

                 The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

                 “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Pierce

                 “An Episode of War” by Stephen Crane

                 “A Horseman in the Sky” by Ambrose Bierce

                 “The Gettysburg Address” by Abraham Lincoln

                 “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin

                 “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

                 “The Revolt of Mother” by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

                 “A White Heron” by Sarah Orne Jewett

Slave Narrative

                 “A True Story” by Mark Twain

                 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

                                  by Frederick Douglass

                 Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

                 “Free Joe and the Rest of the World” by Joel Chandler Harris

                 “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin

Frontier Literature

                 O! Pioneers by Willa Cather

                 White Fang by Jack London

                 “To Build a Fire” by Jack London

                 The Call of the Wild by Jack London

                 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

                 My Life on the Plains by George Armstrong Custer

                 “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” by Bret Harte

                 “A Wagner Matinee” by Willa Cather

Harlem Renaissance

                 A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansbury (audio file)

                 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

                 “Laughing to Keep from Crying” by Langston Hughes

                 “Harlem” by Langston Hughes

Jazz Age

                 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

                 “Winter Dreams” by F. Scott Fitzgerald

                 “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Great Depression

                 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

                 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

                 East of Eden by John Steinbeck

                 “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner

                 “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty

Modernism

                 “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot

                 “The Hollow Men” by T.S. Eliot

                 “Miniver Cheevy” by Edward Arlington Robinson

                 Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

                 Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

                 House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

                 1984 by George Orwell

                 Animal Farm by George Orwell

                 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

                 The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brian

                 “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut

                 “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury

Contemporary Literature

 

Lit Comp 12

Paradise Lost by Milton

Hierarchy of Angels

Hierarchy of Devils

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

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