English Curriculum

• Grades K-5
• Grades 6-12

Novel Rationales

Grade 6

• Ghost Boys
• A Wrinkle In Time
• Bridge to Terabithia
• Journey
• Julie of the Wolves
• Tuck Everlasting
• Watsons Go to Birmingham

Grade 7

• Brian’s Winter
• Catherine, Called Birdy
• Hoot
• Missing May
• Stargirl
• The Cay
• The Giver
• The Westing Game
• Theres a Girl in My Hammerlock
• Where the Red Fern Grows
• Winter Thunder

Grade 8

• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
• I Have Lived a Thousand Years
• Letters from Rifka
• No Promises in the Wind
• Nothing But the Truth
• Out of the Dust
• Rain is not my Indian Name
• Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry
• The Call of the Wild
• The Hanging Tree
• The Martian Chronicles
• The Outsiders
• The Slave Dancer
• Who Will Tell My Brother
• Before We Were Free
• Colibri
• Crazy Loco
• Crossing the Wire
• Red Midnight
• Tales Our Abuelitas Told
• The Color of My Words
• The Tree Is Older Than You Are
• Code Talker

Grade 9

• A Christmas Carol
• A River Runs Through It
• Animal Farm
• Fallen Angels
• Jacob Have I Loved
• Picture Bride
• Runner in the Sun
• Speak
• Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
• The Chocolate War
• The Crystal Cave
• The Eyre Affair
• The Giver
• The Little Prince
• The Pearl
• The Red Pony
• The Three Musketeers
• The Wave
• Touching Spirit Bear
• Two Old Women
• When the Legends Die
• Absolutely-True-Diary
• Hey Kiddo
• This Is Our Story
• The Rules For Disappearing
• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
• Out of My Mind
• Flowers For Algernon
• The Hate U Give
• Flush Novel Rationale

Grade 10

• Vita Activa
• Things Fall Apart
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Absolutely True Diary
• A Lesson Before Dying
• A Separate Peace
• A Tale of Two Cities
• Fallen Angels
• Fahrenheit 451
• Fools Crow
• Hearts Unbroken
• Homegoing
• I Heard the Owl Call My Name
• Lord of the Flies
• Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
• The Green Mile
• The Little Prince
• The Pigman
• The Poisonwood Bible
• Twelve Angry Men
• Winter Wheat
• The Kite Runner
• The Glass Castle
• The Joy Luck Club
• When My Name Was Keoko
• The House on Mango Street

Grade 11

• A Raisin in the Sun
• Yellow Raft in Blue Water
• Fahrenheit 451
• Fools Crow
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull
• My Antonia
• Of Mice and Men
• Puddnhead Wilson
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• The Big-Sky
• The Crucible
• The Grapes of Wrath
• The Grass Dancer
• The Great Gatsby
• The House on Mango Street
• The Ox bow Incident
• The Scarlet Letter
• The Things They Carried
• The Way to Rainy Mountain
• Their Eyes Were Watching God
• Ethan Frome
• Inherit the Wind
• The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
• The Dispossessed
• The Glass Castle
• Between the World and Me
• Enrique’s Journey
• In-the-Time-of-the-Butterflies
• One-Flew-Over-the-Cuckoos-Nest
• The Making of a Story
• Esperanza
• Blood Music Novel Rationale
• Fantastic Voyage Novel Rationale
• Brave New World Novel Rationale
• Do Androids Dream Novel Rationale
• I, Robot Novel Rationale
• Slaughterhouse 5 Novel Rationale
• 2001 A Space Odyssey Film Rationale
• Blade Runner Film Rationale

Grade 12

• Alice in Wonderland
• As I Lay Dying
• A Long Way Gone
• A Time to Kill
• Catcher In The Rye
• Ceremony
• Frankenstein
• Hamlet
• Helter Skelter
• Heart of Darkness
• In My Hands
• In the Time of the Butterflies
• Invisible Man
• Love in the Time of Cholera
• Murder on the Orient Express
• Night
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
• Perma Red
• Renas Promise
• Sacred Clowns
• Siddhartha
• The Alchemist
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time
• The Haunting of Hill House
• The Hound of the Baskervilles
• The Journey of Crazy Horse
• The Secret Life of Bees
• The Swallows of Kabul
• Things Fall Apart
• Persepolis
• Catch 22
• The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
• Beloved
• Sense and Sensibility
• Beartown 2021
• Open Season
• The Kite Runner
• The Round House
• Handmaid’s Tale
• 1984 George Orwell
• The Stranger
• The Road
• Waiting for Gadot

Grade 12 AP

• Austen’s Persuasion
• Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Cry, Beloved Country