English Department
| FACULTY: |
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| Ms. Dennison |
| Mr. Eich |
| Mr. McDillon |
| Mrs. McPheeters |
| Mrs. Walsh |
GKHS English Department
Novel & Film List for 2011-2012
The following is a list of films and novels English students will be exposed to during the 2011-2012 school year. We have posted this on the English Department Web Page, and shortly, all English teachers will be posting monthly assignments and class information. Please acknowledge you have received this reading list. We ask that you sign in the space provided at end of this list. Please have your son/daughter return the signed list to GKHS. Thank you for your cooperation.
*Pieces marked with an asterisk denote film/reading assignment.
Novels__
McTeague by Frank Norris
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald*
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck*
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Lord of the Flies by William Golding*
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton*
In Our Time (selections) by Ernest Hemingway
The Best American Non-required Reading 2007 edited by Dave Eggers
The Invisible Man*
Brave New World* Aldous Huxley
Thousand and One Nights* (Aladdin, Sinbad)
The Brothers Grimm (various selections)*
A Long Way Gone by Ishael Beah
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee*
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson*
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy*
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle*
Heart of Darkness*
Ethan Frome*
All Quiet on the Western Front*
Adventures of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Night by Elie Wiesel
Fahrenheit 451* by Rad Bradbury
A Midsummer Nights Dream*
Films
“The Lady or the Tiger?” by Frank Stockton*
“Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe*
“Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe*
“The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allan Poe*
Stand and Deliver
What Dreams May Come
Growing Up Online
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
My Left Foot
The Taming of the Shrew
10 Things I Hate about You
Kiss Me Pteruchio
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Great Debaters
Couplings
Jason & The Argonauts*
Hercules*
The Odyssey
South Africa: Freedom in our Lifetime
The Black Cat*
Fahrenheit 451*
The Fall of the House of Usher*
My Left Foot
“Halloween Special” The Simpsons Television Show
Shakespeare in the Classroom
