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Christopherus
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PO Box 231
Viroqua, WI 54665, USA

Tel: (608) 637-8031

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High School Literature

The following list is based on what I and others teach at the Youth Initiative High School here in Viroqua, WI. Please also see my blog entry, Books for Teens, for further recommendations. Books marked * are my special recommendations.

-- Donna

9th Grade

Comedy and Tragedy main lesson (drama):

  • Electra (Sophocles) *

  • Twelfth Night *

  • The Damask Drum * (a Noh play)

  • Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry *

Choose from:

  • The Odyssey

  • Animal Farm *

  • The Pearl - Steinbeck

  • The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway

  • Romeo and Juliet *

  • Great Expectations

  • To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee*

  • Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

Short stories such as The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, as well as stories by O. Henry *, de Mauppasant, Saki and Maya Angelou *.
 

10th Grade

Poetry main lesson:

A wide range of poets including Robert Frost, Basho, Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath, Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, William Carlos Williams, Edward Lear and Emily Dickinson.

Choose from:

  • Gilgamesh

  • Julius Caesar - Shakespeare

  • Brave New World - Huxley

  • The Crucible - Miller *

  • Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck

  • Cannery Row - Steinbeck *

  • 1984 - Orwell *

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray - Wilde

  • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - McCullers *

Short stories: Kipling, Alice Walker, Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allen Poe, G.K. Chesterton


11th Grade

Parzival main lesson:

Many Waldorf resources on this book

Choose from:

  • Jane Eyre - Bronte

  • The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald

  • Hamlet *

  • My Antonia - Cather

  • Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut *

  • Catch-22 - Heller

  • The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck *

  • Autobiography of Malcolm X

  • Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

Short stories: as above plus Ernest Hemingway *


12th Grade

Transcendentalism main lesson:

  • Thoreau - Walden

  • Emerson - Self-Reliance and other essays

  • Whitman - Song of Myself

World Literature main lesson:

  • Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky *

  • The Stranger - Camus *

Choose from:

  • Macbeth *

  • Faust

  • Moby Dick

  • The Tempest

  • The Death of Ivan Illich - Tolstoy

  • White Noise - Don Delilo

  • The Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison

  • The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy *

  • The House in Mango Street - Susan Cisneros *

Short stories: Flannery O'Connor *, William Faulkner, Joyce Carol Oates *, Alice Walker *, Mikhail Sholokhov, Edwidge Dandicat *