Reading Lists

2010-2011 Proposed List

1. A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens
2. The Prince and the Pauper, Twain
3. The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare
4. Canterbury Tales, Chaucer
5. Cricket on the Hearth, Dickens
6. The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald
7. Davita's Harp, Potok
8. The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne
9. Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell

2009-2010 (Honors English 11/12)

1. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
2. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare
3. Pudd'nhead Wilson, Twain
4. Austen unit (individual options: Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Northanger Abbey, minor works)
5. Our Town, Wilder
6. Brontë unit (individual options: Wuthering Heights, Tenant of Wildfell Hall)
7. [Silverado Squatters, Stevenson. Juniors only, while seniors on class trip]
8. Potok unit (individual options: The Chosen, My Name is Asher Lev, Book of Lights, Davita's Harp)

2008-2009 (Honors English 11/12)

1. Beowulf (Raffel translation) and
   Story of David (any modern English translation)
2. The Puritan Dilemma, Morgan
3. Canterbury Tales, Chaucer
4. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Twain (Signet Classics edition)
5. The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare (Text from Project Gutenberg)
6. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë (Bantam Classics edition)
7. The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald
8. The Screwtape Letters, Lewis
9. The Valley of the Moon, London

2007-2008 (Honors English 11/12)

1. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Signet Classic edition of Burton Raffel's translation)
2. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare (Text from Project Gutenberg)
3. The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne (Dover Thrift edition)
4. The Cricket on the Hearth, Dickens (Text from Project Gutenberg)
5. Pride and Prejudice, Austen (Penguin Classics edition)
6. Pudd'nhead Wilson, Twain (Enriched Classic, Pocket Books by Simon & Schuster edition)
7. The Europeans, James (Penguin Classics edition) & Daisy Miller
8. Davita's Harp, Potok

2006-2007 (Honors English 10)

1. Short stories
2. Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Truss
3. Dickens Christmas Stories: A Christmas Carol, "The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton," "A Christmas Tree," "The Poor Relation's Story"
4. Short stories
5. The Cherry Orchard, Chekhov
6. A Room with a View, Forster
7. Cyrano de Bergerac, Rostand
8. King Solomon's Mines, Haggard

2005-2006 (No Honors Course)

2004-2005 (Honors English 11/12)

1. Saki (H. H. Munro) short stories
2. The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare
3. Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Truss
4. The Good Earth, Buck
5. The Cricket on the Hearth, Dickens
6. A Room with a View, Forster
7. The Europeans, James
8. Pudd'nhead Wilson, Twain
9. Screwtape Letters, Lewis