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SUGGESTED READING LIST FOR COLLEGE BOUND STUDENTS Ms. Anderson, English Department Chairperson |
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| A wide variety of selected literature will be required
throughout the high school experience at BHS. This includes some selections of
Shakespeare, 17th, 18th , 19th and 20th
Century writers from America as well as from around the world. Some novels are included in
the prescribed curriculum, but no single curriculum can take the place of a student’s
independent reading.
Throughout high school, students will be encouraged to read by teachers in all areas of study. Nothing enriches a student’s understanding of an era, an event, or a mindset quite like seeing it through the eyes of a character involved in it. So much is gained through outside reading – historical perspectives, values of the day, common struggles humanity faces, life experiences from other cultures, not to mention improved critical thinking skills, vocabulary improvement, and inferential skills for the reader. If students are serious about pursuing educational goals beyond high school, nothing will prepare them as well for the rigors of college or university studies as reading avidly. Following is a list of selected titles that appear repeatedly in published college and university reading lists.
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| GRADE 9 | GRADE 10 |
| All Quiet on the Western Front..........Remarque | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn……..Twain |
| Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.... Griffin | Autobiography & Other Selections…...Franklin |
| The Good Earth……………….. .......Buck | The Crucible………………………......Miller |
| Great Expectations............................. Dickens | Death of a Salesman..............................Miller |
| Great Tales and Poems...................... Poe | For Whom the Bell Tolls......................Hemingway |
| Hound of the Baskervilles…………...Doyle | Grapes of Wrath……………….............Steinbeck |
| The Little Prince……………….........Saint Exupery | Moby Dick…………………….................Melville |
| Lord of the Flies…………………......Golding | My Antonia…………………................Cather |
| Odyssey………………………...........Homer | Of Mice and Men………..................Steinbeck |
| The Old Man and the Sea…….....….Hemingway | Our Town……………………..................Wilder |
| To Kill a Mockingbird……………....Lee | The Red Badge of Courage………....Crane |
| The Yearling………………………...Rawlings | The Scarlet Letter………………......Hawthorne |
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