LCUSD Core Reading List

Ms. Skalla, Ms. Salardino- 7^th grade (verified 8/24/09)

¨ Freak the Mighty

¨ The Miracle Worker

¨ The Diary of Anne Frank

¨ The Giver

 

Ms. Blandford-8^th grade (verified 8/24/09)

¨ A Christmas Carol -Tor Edition

¨ Romeo and Juliet-Pelican Edition

¨ The Killer Angels

 

Ms. Baldwin-8^th grade (verified 9/09/09)

¨ Romeo and Juliet –Pelican Edition

¨ The Killer Angels

¨ (To Be Determined: The Christmas Carol or Fahrenheit 451)

 

Ms. Cho- ELD

¨ Night

¨ Romeo and Juliet

¨ Of Mice and Men

¨ To Kill a Mockingbird

¨ The Pearl

 

Ms. Moore- 9th grade (verified 8/03/09)

¨ Odyssey (Mandlebaum translation)

¨ To Kill a Mockingbird

¨ Of Mice & Men (Penguin ed.)

¨ House on Mango Street (TBD)

¨ Othello (Folger Ed.)

 

Ms. Lewsadder-9^th grade (verified 8/03/09)

¨ The Odyssey

¨ To Kill a Mockingbird

¨ Othello

¨ Of Mice and Men

 

Mr. Padilla- 9^th grade (verified 8/31/09)

¨ Odyssey

¨ Animal Farm

¨ To Kill a Mockingbird

¨ Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)

¨ Antigone (TBD) Sophocles

 

Ms. Walsten- 9^th Grade (verified 8/4/09)

¨ To Kill a Mockingbird

¨ The Odyssey

¨ Othello

¨ Of Mice and Men

 

Ms Willshire-9^th Grade (verified 8/13/09)

¨ Odyssey (Mandlebaum ed.)

¨ To Kill a Mockingbird

¨ Of Mice and Men

 

Ms. Cho- 9^th grade

¨ Odyssey

¨ To Kill a Mockingbird

¨ Of Mice & Men

¨ Othello

¨ Things Fall Apart

 

Mr. Valassidis-College Prep English 1

¨ Greek Mythology

¨ The Odyssey

¨ Oedipus Rex

¨ Othello

¨ To Kill a Mockingbird

¨ Of Mice and Men

¨ Animal Farm

 

Ms. Moore—10^th Grade (verified 8/04/09)

¨ Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (Anne Tyler)

¨ The Crucible

¨ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

¨ The Great Gatsby

¨ Catcher in the Rye

 

Ms. Lewsadder 10^th Grade Honors (verified 8/03/09)

¨  The Crucible

¨ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

¨ The Great Gatsby

¨ As I Lay Dying

¨ Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

¨ Catcher in the Rye

¨ The Scarlet Letter

 

Mrs Barker- 10^th Grade Honors (verified 8/13/09)

¨ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

¨ Scarlett Letter

¨ Great Gatsby

¨ Catcher in the Rye

¨ Their Eyes Were Watching God

¨ As I Lay Dying

¨ A Yellow Raft in Blue Water

¨ Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

 

Ms. Walsten-11^th grade (verified 8/3/09)

¨ The Taming of the Shrew

¨ One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

¨ A Streetcar Named Desire

¨ Frankenstein

 

Mr. Valassidis –11^th Grade (College Prep English 3) (verified 9/02/09)

¨ The Metamorphosis—Kafka

¨ 1984 –Orwell

¨ Brave New World—Huxley

¨ A Streetcar Named Desire—Williams

¨ Frankenstein—Shelley

¨ Taming of the Shrew—Shakespeare

¨ Dr. Faustus—Marlowe

¨ Death of A Salesman—Miller

¨ Six Characters in Search of an Author—Pirandello

¨ One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest—Kesey

 

Mr. Mohney AP English Literature and Composition (verified 9/7/09)

¨ Metamorphoses—Ovid

¨ Dubliners—James Joyce

¨ The Storyteller—Mario Vargas Llosa

¨ I Could Tell You Stories, Sojourns in the Land of Memory—Patricia Hampl

¨ Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man—James Joyce

¨ The Sound and the Fury—William Faulkner

¨ Pride and Prejudice—Jane Austen

¨ The Norton Anthology of Poetry

¨ Hamlet (Shakespeare)

¨ King Lear (Shakespeare)

¨ Oedipus and Antigone (The Theban Plays) Sophocles

 

Ms. Moore -12 Grade

¨ The Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)

¨ Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)

¨ Hamlet (Shakespeare)

 

Mr. Powers-AP Language and Composition (verified 8/24/09)

¨ Consolation of Philosophy (Boethius)

¨ Troilus & Criseyde (Chaucer—Coghill ed.)

¨ Sirens of Titan (Vonnegut)

¨ One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Kesey)

¨ Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare)

¨ Frankenstein (Shelley)

¨ Brave New World (Huxley)

 

Mr. Padilla-English 4  (verified 9/15/09)

¨  Dante’s Inferno (Ciardi Edition)

¨  Canterbury Tales- (Coghill Ed.)

¨ The Stranger (Camus)

¨ Native Son (Richard Wright)

¨ Hamlet (Shakespeare)

¨ Macbeth (Shakespeare)

¨ Martin Eden (Jack London)

¨ Tale of Two Cities (To be determined)

 

Mr. Padilla—Mirror Themes in Literature and the Fine Arts- Grade 12 (verified 9/15/09)

¨ Plato Six Great Dialogues (Dover Thrift Ed.)

¨ The Odyssey (Homer)

¨ Dante’s Inferno (Ciardi Ed.)

¨ Canterbury Tales (selected stories by Chaucer) Coghill  Translation

¨ The Fall (Camus)

¨ Hamlet (Shakespeare)

¨ Macbeth (Shakespeare)

¨ Native Son (Richard Wright)

¨ Martin Eden (Jack London)

 

Ms. Willshire—AP English Lit and Composition (verified 8/13/09)

¨ Beowulf(Burton Raffel translation)

¨ Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Tolkein translation)

¨ A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)

¨ Pride and Prejudice (Austen)

¨ Gulliver’s Travels (Swift)

¨ The Canterbury Tales (Coghill translation.)( Signet parallel translation)

¨ The Importance of Being Ernest (Wilde)

¨ (To be determined: Hamlet,The Awakening,The Stranger,Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,A Doll’s House,Mrs. Dalloway)