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In-class Reading Titles (subject to change)
 
 

Freshmen

Stories from Mythology - Jason and Argonauts and the Search for the Golden Fleece, and the follow-up story of "Medea" by Euripides (Sept-Oct)

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Oct-Nov)

Inherit the Wind by Lawrence and Lee (Nov-Dec)

Night by Elie Wiesel (Jan-Feb)

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (March-April)

Prime of Miss Jean Brody by Murel Spark (May)

Short Plays of Eugene Ionesco (Interspersed)

and other elective choices

 

Sophomores

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (Sept-Oct)

Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (Oct-Nov)

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand (Nov-Dec)

Poetry Unit (Jan)

Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (Feb)

Short Plays of Eugene Ionesco (interspersed)

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (May)

Candide by Voltaire

and other elective choices

Bonus Readings:

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse