BHS ELA Instructional Guide

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I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore

The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy The Crucible by Arthur Miller

● I Am Seal Team Six Warrior by Wasdin & Templin ● Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison ● The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck ● The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald ● The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas ● TheHelpby Kathryn Stockett ● The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story by Richard Preston ● The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by JamieFord ● The Iliad by Homer ● The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot ● The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan ● The Jungle by Upton Sinclair ● The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch ● The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave's Journey from Bondage to Freedomby By David F. Walker (Author), Damon Smyth (Illustrator), Marissa Louise (Illustrator) ● The Martian (Classroom Edition) by AndyWeir ● The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg The Radium Girls by KateMoore TheRoadby Cormac McCarthy The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner ● The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson ● The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien ● The War Outside by Monica Hesse ● Their Eyes Were Watching God by ZoraNeale Hurston ● Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe ● Thirteen Reasons Why by JayAsher ● Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom ● Unbroken by Laura Hilenbrand ● Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix ● Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley

*If you would like to submit a novel for approval, please see the Book Approval Process on page 16.

Short Stories in the Mirrors and Windows Textbook - American Tradition (11th grade) ● "The Osage Creation Account" p. 11 ● "The Navajo Creation Myth" p. 12 ● "Coyote and the Earth Monster" p. 21 ● "A Journey through Texas" by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, p. 28 ● "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African Written by Himself" by Olaudah Equiano, p. 62

● "The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving, p. 198 ● "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allen Poe, p. 221 ● "The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathanial Hawthorne, p. 244 ● "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce, p. 286 ● "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" by Bret Harte, p. 402 ● "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, p. 418 ● "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin, p. 481 ● "The Chrysanthemums" by John Steinbeck, p. 710 ● "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, p. 772 ● "The Son" by Horacio Quiroga, p. 789 ● "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty, p. 794 ● "Portrait of a Girl in Glass" by Tennessee Williams, p. 808 ● "The Magic Barrel" by Bernard Malamud, p. 846 ● "Ambush" by Tim O'Brien, p. 1038

● "Game" by Donald Barthelme, p. 1053 ● "The Rockpile" by James Baldwin, p. 1071 ● "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" by Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Translated by Gregory Rabassa, p. 1122 ● "Son" by John Updike, p. 1128 ● "Daughter of Invention" by Julia Alvarez, p. 1184

* For additional resources when teaching these short stories, please go to the High School ELA Canvas Course

Last Updated August 13, 2024

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