High School Reading List
9th Grade
Great Books: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn • My Antonia • The Great Gatsby • Autobiography of an American Slave • “Civil Disobedience” • Democracy in America • Othello • The Tempest • The Scarlet Letter • Of Mice and Men • The Crucible • Our Town • Red Badge of Courage • Old Man and the Sea • Billy Budd • The Souls of Black Folk • Walden • Emerson’s Essays
Historical Works: The Declaration of Independence • The Constitution of the United States • Federalist Papers #10, #39, #51, #84 • Marbury v. Madison • The Monroe Doctrine • Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions • Dred Scott v. Sanford • The Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln • The Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln • Plessy v. Ferguson • Booker T. Washington’s “Atlanta Compromise” • Du Bois’ “The Talented Tenth” • “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others” • Fourteen Points Speech, Woodrow Wilson • First Inaugural Address, Franklin D. Roosevelt • Brown v. Board of Education • “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, M.L. King • “I Have a Dream”, M. L. King •
Short Stories: Franklin, “Alice Addertongue” • Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown” • Hawthorne, “The Birthmark” • Melville, “Bartleby the Scrivener” • Twain, “Journalism in Tennessee” • Twain, “The Private History of a Campaign that Failed” • Crane, “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” • Crane, “The Open Boat” • Jewett, “A White Heron” • Bierce, “A Horseman in the Sky” • Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” • Wilkins Freeman, “A New England Nun” • James, “The Real Thing” • Chopin, “A Pair of Silk Stockings” • Cather, “A Wagner Matinee”
*academies will choose works from the above lists
10th Grade
Great Books: Second Treatise of Government • Pride and Prejudice • Discourse on Inequality • Tale of Two Cities • Communist Manifesto • Crime and Punishment • Henry V • Frankenstein • Henry IV • Utopia • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
*academies will choose works from the above list
11th Grade
Great Books: Iliad • Odyssey • Selections from History of the Peloponnesian War • Histories • Herodotus • Antigone • Oedipus Rex • Euthyphro • Meno • Crito • Apology • Phaedo • Laches • Gorgias • Republic • Nichomachean Ethics • Genesis, Exodus, Job • Hamlet • Agamemnon • Libation Bearers • Eumenides • Oedipus at Colonus • Poetics, Aristotle • Plutarch’s Lycurgus • Plutarch’s Solon • Plutarch’s Cato • On Tranquility, Seneca • On the Shortness of Life, Seneca • On Providence, Seneca • On Duties, Cicero • Psalms, Proverbs, 1/2 Samuel, 1/2 Kings
*academies will choose works from the above list
12th Grade
Great Books: Aeneid • Confessions • Matthew • Mark • Luke • John • Romans • “Treatise on Law” • The Divine Comedy • The Prince • Meditations on First Philosophy • Discourse on Method • The Brothers Karamazov • King Lear • Macbeth • Protagoras • Meditations on First Philosophy • Reason in History • Paradise Lost • Montaigne’s Essays
*academies will choose works from the above list