BHS ELA Instructional Guide

● 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

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The Crucible by Arthur Miller

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 - British Tradition (12th grade)

● "The Mark of the Beast" by Rudyard Kipling, p. 838 ● "The Lagoon" by Joseph Conrad, p. 850 ● "Christmas Storms and Sunshine" by Elizabeth Gaskell, p. 861 ● "Birds on the Western Front" by Saki, p. 967 ● "Araby" by James Joyce, p. 988 ● "The Rocking-Horse Winner" by D. H. Lawrence, p. 1034 ● "The Garden-Party" by Katherine Mansfeld, p. 1046 ● "The Demon Lover" by Elizabeth Bowen ● "A Shocking Accident" by Graham Greene, p. 1147 ● "B. Wordsworth” by V. S. Naipual, p. 1168 ● "Games at Twilight" by Anita Desai, p. 1184 ● "The Train from Rhodesia" by Nadine Gordimer, p. 1192 ● "No Witchcraft for Sale" by Doris Lessing, p. 1203 ● "Sparrows" by Doris Lessing, p. 1211 ● "Dead Men's Path" by Chinua Achebe, p. 1224 ● "from Delhi" by Vandana Singh, p. 1228

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

● How does a speaker use language to persuade or accomplish a purpose? ● What are the purposes of communication? ● What are the components of effective rhetoric and literary expression? ● What is the role of social media in shaping perception? ● How does social media affect communication styles and

The Power of Words

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