12th grade ELA

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Literary

Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (1160L)* Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1070L) Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver (900L) *A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese Utopia by Thomas More (L 1390) Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (L 460)* The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand Brave New World by Alduos Huxley (L 1060) Lord of the Flies by William Golding The Road by Cormack McCarthy A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Antigone by Sophocles A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (L 830) Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (L 840)* Pygmalian by George Bernard Shaw (1340L)

Mao’s Last Dancer by Mao (810L) If the World were a Village (1350L)

Informational

Text Possibilities: Equity and Disparity To focus on race Issues, Try these texts: Speech / Eulogy: President Obama’s Eulogy for the SC Nine That Brought Down the House Essay: “Graduation” by Maya Angelou (Bedford St. Martin) Graphs and Charts: Graduation Rates by Race Essay: "Notes of a Native Son" by James Baldwin (Bedford St. Martin) Essay: “How it Feels to be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston (Bedford St. Martin) Essay: “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria” by Judith Ortiz Cofer (Bedford St. Martin)

Memoir: “Notes of a Native Speaker” from The Accidental Asian by Eric Liu Infographics, Charts, and Graphs: Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System

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