High School Core Literature
Alternative Core Literature Selection Process and Request Form
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Parents and /legal guardians and students have the choice to request an alternative assignment when the content of core literature materials are in conflict with personal sensibilities and/ or values. Please complete the requested information on the Alternative Core Literature Selection Request Form. In the Title and Author of the Book section please list the novel that you find objectionable. Once the form is completed please return to your child’s English teacher.
Alternative Core Literature Selection Request Form
High School Core Literature Approval Form
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Core Literature Titles Used in High School
Grade 9 - Choices and Challenges Required Required: defined as titles taught by all teachers at the grade and/or course level. Listed on CDE Title Author CDE Link Google Search Engine Yes Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare Link Link AND ONE FROM BELOW Yes Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck Link Link OR Yes To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Link Link Required Extended - One of the following Extended: defined as options for teachers to select and incorporate into classroom instruction. (Must Select ONE) Listed on CDE Title Author CDE Link Google Search Engine Yes House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros Link Yes I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou Link Link No Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson Link Yes The Absolute Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie Link Link No The Distance Between Us Reyna Grande Link Extended - One of the Following Extended: defined as options for teachers to select and incorporate into classroom instruction. Listed on CDE Title Author CDE Link Google Search Engine Yes Bean Trees Barbara Kingsolver Link Link Yes Effect of Gamma Rays on... Paul Zindel Link Link Yes House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros Link Link Yes The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Link Link Yes Mythology Edith Hamilton Link Link Yes Our Town Thornton Wilder Link Link No The Penelopiad Margaret Atwood Link Yes Princess Bride William Goldman Link Link Yes Odyssey Homer Link Link Yes Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens Link Link Alternative Listed on CDE Title Author CDE Link Google Search Engine Yes Bean Trees Barbara Kingsolver Link Link Grade 10 - Nature of Humanity Required Required: defined as titles taught by all teachers at the grade and/or course level. Listed on CDE Title Author CDE Link Google Search Engine Yes Lord of the Flies William Golding Link Link AND ONE FROM BELOW Yes Julius Caesar William Shakespeare Link Link OR Yes Macbeth William Shakespeare Link Link Required Extended - One of the Following Extended: defined as options for teachers to select and incorporate into classroom instruction. (Must Select ONE) Listed on CDE Title Author CDE Link Google Search Engine Yes Bless Me Ultima Rudolfo Anaya Link Link Yes Life of Pi Yann Martel Link Link Farewell to Manzanar Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D Houstion Link Yes The Absolute Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie Link Link No Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro Link No Purple Hibiscus Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Link Extended - One of the Following Extended: defined as options for teachers to select and incorporate into classroom instruction. Listed on CDE Title Author CDE Link Google Search Engine Yes Bless the Beasts and the Children Glendon Swarthout Link Link Yes Cyrano de Bergerac Edmund Rostand Link Link Yes Ender's Game Orson Scott Card Link Link Yes Glass Castle Jeanette Walls Link Link No Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway Link No Separate Peace John Knowles Link No Skinwalkers Tony Hillerman Link Yes Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Link Link Yes Thousand Pieces of Gold Ruthanne Lum McCunn Link Link Yes Twelve Angry Men Reginald Rose Link Link Yes Antigone Sophocles Link Link Alternative Listed on CDE Title Author CDE Link Google Search Engine Yes Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Link Link Grade 11 - Defining America Required Required: defined as titles taught by all teachers at the grade and/or course level. Listed on CDE Title Author CDE Link Google Search Engine Yes Crucible Arthur Miller Link Link Yes Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Link Link Required Extended - One of the Following Extended: defined as options for teachers to select and incorporate into classroom instruction. (Must Select ONE) Listed on CDE Title Author CDE Link Google Search Engine No Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry Link Yes Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead Link Link Joy Luck Club Amy Tan Link No How Much Of These Hills is Gold C Pam Zhang Link Yes Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates Link Link No World of Wonders Aimee Nezhukumatathil Link Extended - Two of the Following Extended: defined as options for teachers to select and incorporate into classroom instruction. Listed on CDE Title Author CDE Link Google Search Engine Yes Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Link Link Yes The Awakening Kate Chopin Link Link Yes Bluest Eye Toni Morrison Link Link Yes Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger Link Link Yes Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller Link Link Yes Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams Link Link Yes Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck Link Link No Inherit the Wind Lawrence and Lee Link Yes Into the Wild Jon Krakauer Link Link No Night Thoreau Spent in Jail Lawrence and Lee Link Yes The Road Cormac McCarthy Link Link Yes Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Link Link Yes Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson Link Link Yes A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams Link Link Yes Things They Carried Tim O'Brien Link Link No The Wild Truth Carine McCandless Link Alternative Listed on CDE Title Author CDE Link Google Search Engine Yes The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck Link Link Grade 12 - The Individual and Society Required Required: defined as titles taught by all teachers at the grade and/or course level. Listed on CDE Title Author CDE Link Google Search Engine Yes Hamlet William Shakespeare Link Link AND ONE FROM BELOW Yes 1984 George Orwell Link Link OR Yes Brave New World Aldous Huxley Link Link Required Extended - One of the Following Extended: defined as options for teachers to select and incorporate into classroom instruction. (Must Select ONE) Listed on CDE Title Author CDE Link Google Search Engine Yes Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini Link Link No The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde Link Yes Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Link Link Kitchen Banana Yoshimoto Link No Interpreter of Maladies Jumpa Lahiri Link Link wild Extended - One of the Following 19th Century Works Extended: defined as options for teachers to select and incorporate into classroom instruction. Listed on CDE Title Author CDE Link Google Search Engine Yes Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson Link Link Yes Dracula Bram Stoker Link Link Yes Frankenstein Mary Shelley Link Link Yes Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte Link Link Yes Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Link Link Yes Cold Mountain Charles Frazier Link Link Yes Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte Link Link Extended - One of the Following World Literature Works Extended: defined as options for teachers to select and incorporate into classroom instruction. Listed on CDE Title Author CDE Link Google Search Engine Yes Childhood's End Arthur Charles Clark Link Link No Eaters of the Dead Michael Crichton Link No The Forever King Molly Cochran Link No Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw Link No Rosencratz and Guildenstern are Dead Tom Stoppard Link Yes The Stranger Albert Camus Link Link Yes Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett Link Link No Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail Cheryl Strayed Link No Yellow Birds Kevin Powers Link Yes The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood Link Link Yes Interpreter of Maladies Jumpa Lahiri Link Link Alternative Listed on CDE Title Author CDE Link Google Search Engine Yes Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte Link Link AP and IB Literature Listed on CDE Title Author CDE Link Google Search Engine Yes 1984 George Orwell Link Link No A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry Link Yes Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Link Link Yes Awakening Kate Chopin Link Link Yes Candide Francois Voltaire Link Link Yes Catch-22 Joseph Heller Link Link Yes Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger Link Link Yes Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky Link Link Yes Crucible Arthur Miller Link Link Yes Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller Link Link No Fugitive Pieces Anne Michaels Link Yes The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck Link Link Yes Hamlet William Shakespeare Link Link Yes Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad Link Link Yes Into the Wild Jon Krakauer Link Link Yes Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte Link Link Yes Jump and Other Short Stories Nadine Gordimer Link Link Yes The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini Link Link No Night Thoreau Spent In Jail Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Link No Pedro Paramo Juan Rulfo Link Yes Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Link Link Yes Poetry Selections Eavan Boland Link Yes Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Link Link Yes The Road Cormac McCarthy Link Link Yes Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Link Link Yes The Stranger Albert Camus Link Link Yes The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Link Link Yes Things They Carried Tim O'Brien Link Link Yes Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood Link Link Yes Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates Link Link Yes Cold Mountain Charles Frazier Link Link Yes Interpreter of Maladies Jumpa Lahiri Link Link No Purple Hibiscus Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Link No World of Wonders Aimee Nezhukumatathil Link