SUMMER:
Major Work:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Supplemental Readings:
Learning to Read and Write by Frederick Douglass
On Keeping a Notebook by Joan Didion
The Philosophy of Composition by Edgar Allan Poe
My First Life Line by Maya Angelou
QUARTER 1:
Major Works:
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Grammar Handbook:
The Elements of Style by William Strunk
Supplemental Readings:
How it Feels to be Colored Me by Zora Neale Hurston
"Mommy, What Does Nigger Mean?" by Gloria Naylor
Black Men and Public Space by Brent Staples
American Hunger by Richard Wright
Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
Advice to Youth by Mark Twain
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday
The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes
We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar
QUARTER 2:
Major Works:
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
1984 by George Orwell
Supplemental Readings:
QUARTER 3:
QUARTER 4:
Major Work:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Supplemental Readings:
Learning to Read and Write by Frederick Douglass
On Keeping a Notebook by Joan Didion
The Philosophy of Composition by Edgar Allan Poe
My First Life Line by Maya Angelou
QUARTER 1:
Major Works:
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Grammar Handbook:
The Elements of Style by William Strunk
Supplemental Readings:
How it Feels to be Colored Me by Zora Neale Hurston
"Mommy, What Does Nigger Mean?" by Gloria Naylor
Black Men and Public Space by Brent Staples
American Hunger by Richard Wright
Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
Advice to Youth by Mark Twain
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday
The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes
We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar
QUARTER 2:
Major Works:
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
1984 by George Orwell
Supplemental Readings:
QUARTER 3:
QUARTER 4: