FHC Communication Arts Novel Titles

FHC Communication Arts Novels & Videos The Communication Arts teachers will be choosing from the following list the books and plays for the students of this course to read. A title may be chosen for the entire class to read together, for smaller study group to share or an individual student to enjoy. Each teacher will select the books for his/her class that best fits the curriculum / learning targets. English I English II

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Typical American by Gish Jen Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury Remember the Titans by Jerry Bruckheimer The Chosen by Chaim Potok In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez Buried Onions by Gary Soto Lord of the Flies by William Golding A Separate Peace by John Knowles The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowen The Secret Life of Bees by Susan Monk Kidd My Big Fat Greek Wedding by Nia Vardalos The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsglover Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh DuMas The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter Family Guy by Seth MacFarlane 12 Angry Men by Sidney Lumet Night by Elie Wiesel Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros Anthem by Ayn Rand Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe A Midsummer’s Night Dream by William Shakespeare Mean Girls by Rosalind Wiseman Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolpho Anaya All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque Hiroshima by John Hershey The Simpsons by Matt Groening Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston So Far From God by Ana Castillo Hotel Rwanda by Keir Pearson & Terry George The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini The Pursuit of Happyness by Steve Conrad Julius Caesa by William Shakespeare Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare High Cost of Low Prices: Wal-Mart Documentary

English III Senior Literature and Composition

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles by Sophocles The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger The Stranger by Albert Camus One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut The Inferno by Dante Alighieri The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Dubliners by James Joyce Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Café by Fannie Flagg The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 1984 by George Orwell Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot Native Son by Richard Wright Animal Farm by George Orwell The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Brave New World by Aldous Huxley The Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer O Pioneers by Willa Cather Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Mississippi Solo by Eddy Harris Grendel by John Gardner A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Having Our Say by The Delaney Sisters Man of all Seasons by Robert Bolt Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Meyers Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver Once and Future King by T.H. White Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier A Street Car Named Desire by Tennessee Williams Silas Marner by George Eliot Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens The Crucible by Arthur Miller Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte My Antonia by Willa Cather Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Our Town by Eugene Wood Hamlet by William Shakespeare Catch 22 by Joseph Heller Macbeth by William Shakespeare Black Elk Speaks by John. G Neihardt A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser In Cold Blood (AP LANG) by Truman Capote

Shakespeare Miscellaneous

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare Call of the Wild by Jack London Tempest by William Shakespeare Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt Richard III by William Shakespeare Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury Othello by William Shakespeare Different Seasons by Stephen King Henry V by William Shakespeare 20,000 Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne Henry IV by William Shakespeare A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare The Friends by Rosa Guy King Lear by William Shakespeare That was Then, This is now by S.E. Hinton Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O’Brien The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney Brian’s Song by William Blinn Forbidden City by Geremie R. Barme Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman Lost Horizon by James Hilton Zia by Scott O’Dell A Day no Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck Shabanu by Suzanne Fisher Staple Picture Bride by Yoshiko Uchida The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane Man of La Mancha by Dale Wasserman

By signing below, you agree to allow your child read/view any of these selections. If you have any objections to the above, please indicate below which you would prefer your child not read/view. They will be given an alternative but equal opportunity.

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