East Side Union High School District
Board Meeting of April 26, 2007 Agenda Item: 9.13 Attachment A
TO: Board of Trustees
FROM: Bob Nuñez, Superintendent
PREPARED BY: Dan Moser, Assistant Superintendent of Instructional Services
SUBJECT: Approval for Permanent Status of Novels
The Instructional Policies Committee (IPC) has reviewed the novels (please see attachments). The novels were reviewed by the English Coordinating Council, and recognized the need to add additional novels to some of the English course to expand the selection of diverse literature for teachers to use in their classrooms. At this time, the members of IPC recommend approval of these novels to the core list of literature.
Novel prices vary from $9.95 to $15.95
Title Author A Bend in the River V.S. Naipaul A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry A Gathering of Old Men Ernest Hemingway A Gesture Life Chang-Rae Lee A Lesson before Dying Ernest Gaines A Passage to India E.M. Forster A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf A Room with a View E.M. Forster A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley Absalom, Absalom William Faulkner Adam Bede Geroge Eliot Alias Grace Margaret Atwood All My Sons Arthur Miller All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser An Enemy of the People Henrik Ibsen Agnes of God John Pielmeier Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy Another Country James Baldwin Anthony and Cleopatra Williams Shakespeare
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East Side Union High School District Antigone Sophocles Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Mordecai Richler Armies of the Night Norman Mailer As I Lay Dying William Faulkner Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man James Weldon Johnson Benito Cereno Herman Melville Billy Budd Herman Melville Bleak House Charles Dickens Bone: A Novel Fae M. Ng Brighton Rock Graham Green Candide Voltaire Candida George Bernard Shaw Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Tennessee Williams Catch - 22 Joseph Heller Cat's Eye Margaret Atwood Coming Through Slaughter Michael Ondaatje Daisy Miller Henry James Dancing at Lughnasa Brian Friel David Copperfield Charles Dickens Delta Wedding Eudora Welty Desire under the Elms Eugene O'Neil Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Annye Tyler Doctor Faustus Christopher Marlowe Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Dreaming in Cuban Cristina Garcia Dutchman Amiri Maraka/Leroi Jones Emma Jane Austen Equus Peter Shaffer Ethan Frome Edith Wharton Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev Faust Johann Goethe Fences August Wilson Fifth Business Robertson Davis For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway Ghosts Henrik Ibsen Going After Cacciato Tim O'Brien Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift Hard Times Charles Dickens Hedda Gabler Henrik Ibsen Henry IV, Parts I and II William Shakespeare Henvry V William Shakespeare House Made of Dawn N Scott Momaday In the Lake of the Woods Tim O'Brien
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East Side Union High School District In the Time of Butterflies Julia Alvarez J.B. Archibald MacLeish Jasmine Bharati Mukherjee Joe Turner's Come and Gone August Wilson Joseph Andrews Henry Fielding Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy King Lear William Shakespeare Letters from an American Farmer de Crevecoeur Light in August William Faulkner Long Day's Journey into the Night Eugene O'Neil Lord Jim Joseph Conrad Love Medicine Louise Erdrich Lysistrata Aristohpanes M. Butterfly David Henry Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert Main Street Sinclair Lewis Major Barbara George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman George Bernard Shaw Mansfield Park Jane Austen Master Harold…and the Boys Athol Fugard Middle Passage V.S. Naipaul Middlemarch George Eliot Miss Lonelyhearts Nathanael West Moby Dick Herman Melville Moll Flanders Daniel DeFoe Monkey Bridge Lan Cao Mother Courage and Her Children Berthold Brecht Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf Mrs. Warren's Profession George Bernard Shaw Murder in the Cathedral T.S. Eliot My Name is Asher Lev Chaim Potok Native Speaker Chang-Rae Lee No Exit John Paul Sarte No-No Boy John Okada Notes from the Underground Fydor Dostoevski O, Pioneers Willa Cather Obasan Joy Kogawa One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Alexander Solzhenitsyn Orlando: A Biography Virginia Woolf Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens Our Town Thornton Wilder Out of Africa Isaak Dinesen Pale Fire Vladmir Nabokov
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East Side Union High School District Pamela Samuel Richardson Paradise Lost John Milton Peer Gynt Henrik Ibsen Père Goriot Honore de Balzac Persuasion Jane Austen Phaedre Jean Racine Pnin Vladmir Nabokov Pocho Jose Antonio Villarreal Portrait of a Lady Henry James Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce Praisesong for the Widow Paule Marshall Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw Ragtime E.L. Doctorow Redburn Herman Melville Richard III Williams Shakespeare Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Tom Stoppard Saint Joan George Bernard Shaw Sent for You Yesterday John Edgar Wideman Silas Marner George Eliot Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson Song of Solomon Toni Morrison Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawerence Sula Toni Morrison Surfacing Margaret Atwood Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton The American Henry James The Awakening Kate Chopin The Birthday Party Harold Pinter The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison The Bonesetter's Daughter Amy Tan The Brothers Karamazov Fydor Dostoevski The Caretake Harold Pinter The Centaur John Updike The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekhov The Color Purple Alice Walker The Death of Ivan Ilyich Leo Tolstoy The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri The Diviners Margaret Laurence The Dollmaker Harriet Arnot The Eumenides Aeschylus
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East Side Union High School District The Fall Albert Camus The Father August Strindberg The Federalist Alexander Hamilton The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams The Good Soldier Ford Maddox Ford The Hairy Ape Eugene O'Neil The Heart of the Matter Graham Green The Homecoming Harold Pinter The House of Mirth Edith Wharton The House of Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthrone The Iliad Homer The Jungle Upton Sinclair The Little Foxes Lillian Hellman The Loved One Evelyn Waugh The Member of the Wedding Carson McCuller The Mill on the Floss George Eliot The Optimist's Daughter D.H. Lawerence The Orestia Aeschylus The Piano Lesson August Wilson The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde The Plague Albert Camus The Power and the Glory Graham Green The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro The Sandbox Edward Albee The Shipping News E. Annie Proulx The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner The Stone Angel Margaret Laurence The Tempest William Shakespeare The Trial Franz Kafka The Turn of the Screw Henry James The Vicar of Wakefield Oliver Goldsmith The Warden Anthony Trollope The Way of the World William Congreve The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope The Wild Duck Henrik Ibsen The Zoo Story Edward Albee To The Lighthouse Virginia Woolf Tom Jones Henry Fielding Tracks Louise Erdrich Trifles Susan Glaspell Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne Typical American Gish Jen
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East Side Union High School District Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe Victory Joseph Conrad Volpone Ben Jonson Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett Washington Square Henry James Watch on the Rhine Lillian Hellman Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys Winter in the Blood James Welch Winter's Tale William Shakespeare Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor Zoot Suit Luis Valdez
Fiscal Impact Funding Sources N/A N/A
Recommendation: It is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve these novels as presented above.
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