Alert: Draft Language for Required Reading in High School: English I -4

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Required Readings in English I

1. Animal Farm George Orwell
1. ├-- Federalist Papers No. 10 James Madison
2. ├-- Federalist Papers No. 51 James Madison
3. ├-- I, Pencil Leonard E. Read
4. ├-- Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley
5. └── The Clever Teens' Guide to the Russian Revolution Felix Rhodes
2. Antigone Sophocles (2005th Publishing Edition)
1. ├-- Thanatopsis William Cullen Bryant
2. └── The Monkey's Paw (excerpt from The Monkey's Paw and Other Stories) W. W. Jacobs
3. Great Expectations Charles Dickens
1.  ├-- Love Is Not All (excerpt from Fatal Interview) Edna St. Vincent Millay
2. └── A Brief History of Life in Victorian Britain (Chapter 1 "Symbol of an Age", Chapter 2 "The Masses". and Chapter 6 "Religion") Michael Paterson
4. The Odyssey Homer (translated by Robert Fagles)
1. ├-- David and Goliath (Book of 1 Samuel, Chapter 17) Hebrew Bible / Old Testament (trans. NIRV)
2. └── Odysseus W. S. Merwin
5. Night Elie Wiesel
1. ├-- Lamentations 3 (Book of Lamentations, Chapter 3) Hebrew Bible / Old Testament (trans. JPS Tanakh 1917)
2. ├-- The Perils of Indifference (excerpt from White House Official Transcript of Remarks at Millennium Evening) Elie Wiesel
3. └── The Survivor Primo Levi

Required Readings in English II

1. Beowulf Unknown Poet (translated by Burton Raffel)
1. ├-- The Charge of the Light Brigade Alfred Lord Tennyson
2. └── Twelve Angry Men Reginald Rose
2. Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
1. ├-- Dear Mr. McCarthy, I Am Very Real (excerpt, Section 1 from Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage) Kurt Vonnegut
2. ├-- What is Capitalism? (excerpt, Section 1 from Capitalism, The Unknown Ideal) Ayn Rand
3. ├-- Flattering Unction (excerpt, Chapter 1 from The Vision of the Anointed) Thomas Sowell
4. └── The Veldt (excerpt from The Illustrated Man) Ray Bradbury
3. Frankenstein Mary Shelley
1. ├-- Prometheus Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2. ├-- The Tower of Babel (Book of Genesis, Chapter 11 Verses 1-9) Hebrew Bible / Old Testament (trans. NIRV)
3. └── Why Frankenstein Matters Audrey Shafer
4.  A Separate Peace John Knowles
1. ├-- The Necklace Guy de Maupassant (translated by Johnathan Sturges)
2. ├-- The Scarlet Ibis James Hurst
3. └── The Soldier Rupert Brooke
5. The Tragedy of Julius Caesar William Shakespeare
1. ├-- Eulogy for President Reagan Margaret Thatcher
2. ├-- Pericles’ Funeral Oration (excerpt of Book 2 from Chapters 34 - 46 of History of the Peloponnesian War) Thucydides (edited by M.I. Finley and translated by Rex Warner)
3. └── The Raven Edgar Allen Poe

Required Readings in English III

1. The Alchemist Paulo Coelho
1. ├-- To Build a Fire (excerpt from To Build a Fire and Other Stories) Jack London
2. -- We Choose to Go to the Moon John F. Kennedy
3. └── Ithaka C.P. Cavafy
2. Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
1. ├-- To Everything There is a Season (Book of Ecclesiastes, Chapter 3) Hebrew Bible / Old Testament (trans. KJV)
2. ├-- First Inaugural Address Franklin Delano Roosevelt
3. ├-- I’d Rather Not Be on Relief Lester Hunter
4. ├--The Chrysanthemums (excerpt from the Chrysanthemums and Other Stories) John Steinbeck
5. └── To a Mouse Robert Burns
3. The Crucible Arthur Miller
1. ├-- Federalist Paper No. 78 Alexander Hamilton
2. ├-- Lyceum Address Abraham Lincoln
3. ├--Democracy in America (Chapter XVII: Principal Causes Maintaining the Democratic Republic – Part IV – First & Second Section) Alexis de Tocqueville
4. └── Young Goodman Brown Nathaniel Hawthorne
4. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
1. ├-- Annual Message (Four Freedoms) to Congress Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2. ├-- Labor Unions in A Free Market Ernest van den Haag
3. ├--Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s – A Classic Chronicle of Scandal, Prosperity, and the Great Depression (Chapter I “Prelude: May, 1919,” Chapter VII “Coolidge Prosperity,” and Chapter XII “The Big Bull Market”) Frederick Lewis Allen
4. └── We Wear the Mask Paul Lawrence Dunbar
5. The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
1. ├-- If Rudyard Kipling
2. └── The Minister’s Black Veil Nathaniel Hawthorne

Required Readings in English IV

1. Hamlet William Shakespeare
1. ├-- Hamlet and His Problems (excerpt from The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism) T. S. Elio
2. ├-- The Death of Ivan Ilych Leo Tolstoy (translated by Robert Nisbet Bain)
3. └── The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock T. S. Eliot
2. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
1. ├-- “Hope” is the thing with feathers Emily Dickinson
2. ├-- The Parson’s Daughter of Oxney Colne Anthony Trollope
3. └── When I Was One-and-Twenty A. E. Housman
3. The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri
1. ├-- The Book of Job (Book of Job, Chapters 1-7, 11, 14, 19, 28, 38- 42) Hebrew Bible / Old Testament (trans. NIRV)
2.  ├-- I’ve Been to the Mountaintop Martin Luther King, Jr.
3. └── The Middle Ages: A Very Short Introduction (Chapter 1 “The 'Middle' Ages?,” Chapter 2 “People and Their Lifestyles,” Chapter 3 “The Big Idea: Christian Salvation,” and Chapter 4 “Kingship, Lordship, and Government”) Miri Rubi
4. Up From Slavery Booker T. Washington
1. ├-- Everyday Use Alice Walker
2. ├--Frederick Douglass Robert Hayden
3. ├-- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Chapter 1) Frederick Douglass
4. └── A Psalm of Life Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
5. Walden Henry David Thoreau
1. ├-- Autobiography (Part One) Benjamin Franklin
2. └── The Open Boat Stephen Crane