Tom Butler, Assistant Superintendent, Currlculum and lnstruction. Approval, Recommended Literature Grades 7-1.2

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1 LUctA MAR ulfled school DlsrRlcr AGEDA #20 BOARD OF EDUCATIO Date: To: From: May 6, 2014 Jim Hogeboom, Superintendent 7? Tom Butler, Assistant Superintendent, Currlculum and lnstruction Subject: Approval, Recommended Literature Grades Background: English Language Arts courses in Lucia Mar use a wide variety of novels and texts to supplement the official district adoptions. Some novels and texts are used for the whole class, others are used for small group assignments or independent reading assignments. The attached lists are updated to reflect courses that are currently taught and to support the Common Core State Standards. Recommendation: Approval of Recommended Literature Lists for Grades 7-L2. Fiscal lmpact/support of Board Goals: Fiscal lmpact: Minimal, any additional novel purchasing will be made from sufficiency funds or site budgets. Board Goal Reference: Student Success Contact Person(s): Hillery Dixon, Coordinator of Assessment Tom Butler, Assistant Superintendent, Curriculum and lnstruction TB:sa

2 Lucia Mqr Unified School District GRADES 9-I2 RECOMMEDED LITERATURE APPROVED TEXTS TITLE ITH GRADE Prentice Hqll Literature: Gold, r989 TETH GRADE llorld Literqture, 1993 ELEVETH Literature: The GRADE Americqn Experience, 2002 The American Experience, 2002 TWELFTH GRADE Literqture: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry and Drama,2004 The British Tradition, I994 The llriter's Presence, 2003 B e dfor d G ui de for C o llege Iltriters,200l SUPPLEMETAL TEXTS AD RESOURCES TITLE ITH GRADE Holt Handbook Third Course, 2003 Holt Literature & Language Arts, Third Course, 2003 The Joy ofvocabulary Iüord Roots TETH GRADE Latin and Greek Roots: A Study of I(ord Familes The Joy ofvocabulary I(ord Roots Holt Handbook Fourth Course Holt Interactive Reading Ilorkbook ELEVETH They Say/I Sry: The Moves that GRADE Matter in Academic llriting Everything's øn Argument Perrine's Sound and Sense Ilriting and Grammar: Rub AUTHOWPUBLISHER Holt, Rinehart and rùy'inston Kennedy Bedford/ St. Martin's Bedford/ St. Martin's AUTHOR/PUBLISHER Warriner Holt, Rinehart and Winston Levine Blanchard Osborne Levine Blanchard Holt Holt Graff and Birkenstein Lunford and Ruszkiewicz Arp, Johnson STATE APPROVED STATE APPROVED T\ryELFTH GRADE l(ord Smart II Ess ential Englis h Grqmmar Warriner's English G rammqr They Say/l Say: The Moves thqt Matler in Academic lilriting l4triting and Grammar: Diamond Robinson Gucker rùy'arriner Graff and Birkenstein

3 A \llorld ofshort Stories Pearson/Longman CORE LITERATURE TITLE I 984 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The All Quiet on the llestern Fronl All the Pretty Horses Animal Farm Anna Kareninq Anthem Antigone Awakening, The Baseball in April Bean Trees, The Beloved Bless Me, Ultima Brove ew ll orld Cqndide Cat's Cradle Catcher in the Rye, The Chosen, The Christmas Carol, A Circuit, The Crucible, The Cyrano de Bergerac Death of a Salesman Doll's House, A Enemy of the People Ethqn Frome Fahrenheit 45 I Farewell to Manzanar Fences Frankenstein Frankenstein (abridged) Grapes of lttrath, The Great Gatsby, The Greek Mythologt Gulliver's Travels Hqmlet Handmaid's Tale, The Heart of Darkness House on Mango Street, The iliad, The Imporlance of Being Earnest, The In the Lake of the lloods Inferno, The Into the lhld Invisible Man, The King Lear Kite Runner, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Lesson Beþre þing, A AUTHOR/PUBLISHER Orwell Twain Remarque McCarthy Orwell Tolstoy Rand Sophocles Chopin Soto Kingsolver Morrison Anaya Huxley Voltaire Vonnegut Salinger Potok Dickens Jimenez Miller Rostand Miller Ibsen Ibsen Wharton Bradbury Houston Wilson Shelley Shelley Fitzgerald Hamilton Swift Atwood Con ad Cisneros Homer V/ilde O'Brien Dante Krakauer Ellison Hosseini Le Guin Gaines STATE APPROVED

4 SUPPLEMETAL LITERATURE TITLE Long lvay Gone, A Lord of the Flies Macbeth Metamorphosis, The Much Ado About othing arrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass ight ight Thoreau Spent in Jail, The Oþssey, The Oedipus Rex Of Mice and Men Once and Future King, The Othello Outsiders, The Passage to India, A Portrait of lhe Artist as a oung Man, A Prayerfor Owen Mearry, A Pride and Prejudice Raisin in the Sun, A Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Romeo and Juliet Ros encr antz qnd Gui I denst er n qre Dead Scarlet Letter, The Secret Life of Bees, The Separate Peace, A Siddhartha Slaughterhouse-Five Snow Falling on Cedqrs Speak Stranger, The Streetcar qmed Desire, A Sula Tale of Two Cities, A Tarqn Wqnderer Their Eyes Were llatching God Things Fall Apørt To Kill a Mockingbird To The Lighthouse True Grit Iltalden and Civil Disobedience Ilthen the Legends Die Iltithin Reach Absalom, Absalom Age oflnnocence, The All The Pretty Horses Beah Golding Kafka Douglass Wiesel Lawrence Homer Sophocles White Hinton Forster Joyce Irving Austen Hansberry Coleridge Stoppard Hawthorne Kidd Knowles Hesse Vonnegut Guterson Anderson Camus Williams Morrison Dickens Alexander Hurston Achebe Lee Woolf Portis Thoreau Borland Pfetzer AUTHOR/PUBLISHER Faulkner WhaÉon McCarthy STATE APPROVED

5 All My Sons All Quiet On the ll/estern Front An American Trøgeþ As I Løy þing Bøby with the Bathwqter Bell Jar, The Billy Budd Bluest Eye, The Catch-22 Cat's Cradle Ceremony Child Called " t", A Chronicle of a Death Foretold, A Cold Sassy Tree Color Purple, The Crime and Punishment Daisy Miller Death Comesfor the Archbishop Dinner at the Homesick Restourant Desire Under the Elms Doll's House, A Doll's House qnd Other Plays, A Education of Little Tree, The Ender's Game Ethan Frome Farewell to Arms, A Farewell to Manzanar For l(hom the Bell Tolls Freqk the Mighty Fountainhead, The Gesture Lfe, A Glass Menagerie, The Go Tell It on the Mountain God of Small Things, The Grapes of llrath, The Great Expectations Hairy Ape, The Harvest Gypsies, The Heqrt is a Lonely Hunter, The Holes House Made of Dawn House of Mirth, The I Know l(hy the Caged Bird Sings Inherit the Ll ind Invisible Man Jesse Joy Luck Club, The Jungle, The King Lear King Must Die, The Last of the Mohicans, The Lqst Lecture, The Les Miserables Light in August Like Wøter for Chocolate Little Foxes Miller Remarque Dreiser Faulkner Durang Plath Melville Morrison Heller Vonnegut Silko Pelzer Garcia Marquez Burns Walker Dostoevsky James Cather Tyler O'eill Ibsen Ibsen Carter Card Wharton Hemingway Houston Hemingway Philbrick Rand Lee Williams Baldwin Roy Dickens O'eill McCullers Sachar Momaday Wharton Angelou Lawrence, Lee Ellison Soto Tan Sinclair Renault Cooper Pausch Hugo Faulkner Esquivel Hellman

6 Lizard Lolita Love Medicine Long Day's Journey Into ight Maggie, A Girl of the Streets Merchant of Venice, The Moby Dick Monster Mourning Becomes Electra My Antonia Mythologt ative Son ative Speaker Once and Future King, The One Flettt Over the Cuckoo's est One Hundred ears of Solitude Othello Our Town Peace Like a River Piano Lesson, The Percy Jaclrson and the Olympians, Book I: The Lightening Thief Percy Jaclrson and the Olympians, Book 2: The Sea of Monsters Percy Jaclrson and the Olympians, Book 3: The Titan's Curse Percy Jaclcon and the Olympians, Book 4: The Battle of the Labyrinth Percy Jacltson and the Olympians, Book 5: The Last Olympian Portrait of a Laþ Picture of Doran Grøy, The Prince, The Raisin in the Sun, A Separate Peqce, A Shane Shipping ews, The Siddhartha Sister Cqrrie Song of Solomon Sound and the Fury, The Stranger, The Sula Sun Also Rises, The Tempest, The Tender is the ight Tess of the D'Urbervilles Things They Carried, The Turn ofthe Screw Twelfth ight Uncle Tom's Cqbin llashington Squøre llhen the Killing's Done Where The Heart Is lvhirligig Ilide Sargasso Sea oshimoto abokov Erdrich O'eill Crane Melville Myers O'eill Cather Hamilton Wright Lee White Kesey Garcia Marquez Wilder Enger Wilson Riordan Riordan Riordan Riordan Riordan James Wilde Machiavelli Hansberry Knowles Schaefer Proulx Hesse Dreiser Morrison Faulkner Camus Morrison Hemingway Fitzgerald Hardy O'Brien James Stowe James Boyle Letts Fleischman Rhys

7 I(ho's Afraid of Virginia \loo(? ll'oman l(qruior, The lluthering Heights ou Can't Go Home Again Zfor Zachariah Albee Kingston Bronte Wolfe O'Brien * All boolrs that are not on the state approved list were selectedwith great care by the teacher. In the professional opinion of the teacher, these boolæ meet the educational philosophy of the district to provide high quality, rigorous, relevant and appropriate cuticular materials to meet the needs of a diverse student population, and darclop student's thinking and âic sion-making skills. Use of these particular literature selections supports the instruction of our district's Board-approved priority standards for our English ønd Language course of stuþ.

8 Lucia Mar Unified School Distict GRADES 7-8 RECOMMEDED TITERATURE APPROVED TEXTS Title Author/Publisher State Approved Seventh Grade Holt Literature and Language Arts, Fírst Course,2003 Holt, Rinehart and Winston Eighth Grade Holt Literature and Language Arts, Second Course,20023 Holt, Rinehart and Winston SUPPLEMETAL TEXTS AD RESOURCES Seventh Grade Eighth Grade Holt Handbook First Course Building Vocabulary skílls 2,d edition HoltHandbooks Second Course Improving Vocabulary Skills Daily Language Review Holt, Rinehart and Winston Goodman, ist and Mohr Holt, Rinehart and Winston 2002 Townsend Press Inc Evan-Moor CORE LITERATURE Anímal Farm Breaking Through Call of the Wild, The Catherine, Called Birdy Christmas Carol, A CIay Marble, The Dracula End ofthe Road, The Fahrenheit 451 Farewell to Manzanar Flowers for Algernon Hatchet Hobbit, The House 0n Mango SÛee, The Little Prince, The Lord of the Flies Mídsummer ight's Dream Monster My Brother Sam is Dead ight Orwell Jimenez London Cushman Dickens Ho Stoker Bodett Bradbury Houston Daniel Keys Paulsen Tolkien Cisneros Saint Exupery Golding Myers Collier Wiesel

9 umber the Stars Of Mice and Men Outsiders, The Parrot in the Oven Pearl, The Roll ofthunder Hear Mv cry Speak Stargirl Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Tangerine ThatWas Then, This Is ow Tom Sawyer Uglies WalkTwo Moons Where The Red Fern Grows Lowry Hinton Martinez Taylor Anderson Spinelli Stevenson Bloor Hinton Mark Twain Westerfeld Creech Rawls SUPPLEMETAL LITERATURE April Morning Bad Boy Black Pearl, The Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Circuit, The Hatchet Hobbit, The Holes Journey to America Kira-Kira Lettersfrom Rifta Lion, the Wítch, and the Wardrobe, The Little Prince, The Lyddie My Brother Sam is Dead Olive's 0cean Of Míce and Men Parrot in the Oven Pearl, The Roll ofthunder, Hear Mvcry Secret Garden, The Soldier's Heart Stargirl Stormbreaker Tangerine Things ot Seen Trickster's Choice Uglies WalkTwo Moons Watsons Go to Fast Myers O'Dell Dahl fimenez Paulsen Tolkien Sachar Levitin Kadohata Hesse C.S. Lewis De Saint-Exupery Paterson Collier Henkes Martinez Taylor Burnett Paulsen Spinelli Horowitz Bloor Clements Pierce Westerfeld Creech Curtis

10 Birmingham, The Witch of the Blackbird Pond, The Speare * All boolrs that are not on the state approved list were selectedwith great care by the teacher. In the professional opinion of the teacher, these books meet the educational philosophy of the district to provide high qualþ, rigorous, relevant and appropriate curricular materials to meet the needs of a diverse student population, and develop student's thinking and decision-making skills. Use of these particular literature selections supports the instruction of our district's Board-approved priorþ standardsfor our Englßh and Language course ofstudy.