HS ELA Guide

●​ The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck ●​ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald ●​ The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas ●​ The Help by Kathryn Stockett ●​ The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story by Richard Preston ●​ The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford ●​ 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 Freedom by By David F. Walker (Author), Damon Smyth (Illustrator), Marissa Louise (Illustrator) ●​ The Martian (Classroom Edition) by Andy Weir ●​ The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

●​ 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 Kate Moore ●​ The Road by 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 Zora Neale Hurston ●​ Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe ●​ Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher ●​ 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 Mansfield, 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 The Power of Words ●​ 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 relationships? ●​ What ethical considerations should guide our use of media and technology? ●​ In what ways does academic language foster and convey clear,

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High School ELA, Page 109

Jun 2, 2025