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 - 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 Theme Essential Questions The New World / A New Nation The New World ●​ Which influences shaped Colonial America?

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Jun 2, 2025