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English11 Honors Extra Credit Book List Mr. Farcus 2007-2008

The following books require a written test. You must signup for the test by the seventh week of the quarter. Books are to be read to their completion during the quarter they are due. No credit will be given for a partial reading or for any score below sixty-percent. All tests are worth 100 points and will be completed in class on a day to be announced by your teacher each quarter.

UNIT1 Soldiers, Pirates, and Knights—Tales of Adventure and Survival Green Dolphin Street Elizabeth Goudge Moby Dick Herman Melville The Once and Future King T.H. White

UNIT 2

Coming of Age—The Maturation of Self

The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger Rabbit, Run John Updike

Unit 3 The Imagined Past—History in Fiction A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Exodus Leon Uris

Unit 4 Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction Stranger in a Strange Land Robert Heinlein Brave New World Aldous Huxley A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter Miller

UNIT 5 In Search of Conscience—The Literature of Social Issues

1 Native Son Richard Wright Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck, John

UNIT 6 The Triumph of the Spirit—Overcoming Handicaps

Cannery Row John Steinbeck The Other Side of the Mountain E.G. Valens The Skin of Our Teeth Thornton Wilder

UNIT 7 The Top of the Ladder—Stories of Professional Success and Achievement

Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller My Name is Asher Lev Chiam Potek UNIT 8 Who one It???—Tales of the ark and Mysterious The Mousetrap Agatha Christie

UNIT 9 Relived Memories—Childhood Remembered My Antonia Willa Cather A Death in the Family James Agee How Green Was My Valley Richard Llewellyn

UNIT 10 Moonlight and Roses—Tales of Love and Romance

Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Withering Heights Emily Bronte The Return of the Native Thomas Hardy Ethan Frome Edith Wharton

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Anderson, Sherwood Winesburg, Ohio Asimov, Isaac Foundation Baldwin, James Go Tell It on the Mountain Brown, ee Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Bunyan, John The Pilgrim's Progress Camus, Albert The Stranger Conrad, Joseph The Heart of arkness

Dostoyevsky, Feodor Crime and Punishment Faulkner, William Intruder in the ust Hawthorne, Nathanal The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne, Nathanal House of Seven Gables Hemingway, Ernest The Sun Also Rises James, Henry The Portrait of a Lady Joyce, James A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Lewis, Sinclair Babbitt Orwell, George 1984 Steinbeck, John East of Eden Tolstoy, Leo Anna Karenina

Twain, Mark A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Twain, Mark Puddn'head Wilson Wilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray Woodward, Bob, and Carl Bernstein All the President's Men