2015-2016 Book Lists

10-12 Graders
Classical/ American Literature

September: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
                   Short stories by Hawthorne (I will provide a handout)


October: Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
 
November: Our Town by Thornton Wilder

December: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

January : Frankenstein by Mary Shelly  (This is not an American author)
                "Essays on the Conduct of Life" by Ralph Waldo Emerson ( handouts)

February: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

March: My Antonia by Willa Cather

April: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

May: original work


US History: Bob Jones US History
I have the third edition, but they are so much alike it shouldn't make any difference.






8th and 9th Grade
Late Renaissance/ Early Modern Literature

September: The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling
                   " Rikki Tikki Tavi" by Rudyard Kipling ( internet download will work)

October: "A Voyage to Lilliput" and ' A Voyage to Brobdingnag" by Jonathan Swift
               These are selections form Gulliver's Travels

November: Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan ( please make sure this is unabridged)

December: " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and " Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving

January: Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

February: Persuasion by Jane Austen

March: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

April: Poetry unit

May: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne