Welcome to English.  The 2007-2008 school year will be one filled with academic challenges, insights, growth and awakenings. Through all of the discoveries we make together, let us as learners and individuals, in the words of Thoreau, “live deliberately.”

Below are the books and some of the short stories we will be studying during this school year.

Juniors

Fall

Hawthorne short stories
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Great Gatsby
“Fences”
Your Own Sylvia
“The Yellow Wallpaper”

Spring

Death of a Salesman
All the Pretty Horses
The Reivers
Into the Wild

Seniors

Fall

Tasting the Sky:  A Palestinian Childhood
Slaughterhouse Five
Flight
The Count of Monte Cristo

Spring

Patterns for College Writing
The Namesake
Anansi Boys