Required

• The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis
• The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

Teacher Choice

• The Breadwinner (Film) (2017)
• A Cry in the Wild (Film) (1990)
• He Name Me Malala (Film) (2015)
• A Wrinkle in Time (Film) (2018)

Required

The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Teacher Choice

The Giver (Film) (2014)
The Outsiders (Film) (1983)

Student Choice

One of:

• Ahimsa by Supriya Kelkar
• Full Cicada Moon by Marilyn Hilton
• The Skin I Am In by Sharon Flake
• Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin

English

Required

• The Diary of Anne Frank (Stage Play)
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• Lord of the Flies (Film)
• The Monkey's Paw (Animated Film)

Student Choice

One of:

• All of Me by Chris Baron
• Forget Me Not by Ellie Terry
• Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
• Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
• A Time to Dance by Padma Venkatraman
• White Rose by Kip Wilson

Essentials

Required

• Fever: 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• The Hunger Games (Film) (2012)

Essentials

Required

• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare

Teacher Choice

• Anthem by Ayn Rand
• Romeo & Juliet (Film) (1996)

Student Choice

One of:

• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• To Kill a Mockingbird: A Graphic Novel by Fred Fordham

English

Required

• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare

Teacher Choice

• Anthem by Ayn Rand
• Romeo & Juliet (Film) (1996)

Student Choice

One of:

• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Academic

Required

• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare

Teacher Choice

• Love, Hate, & Other Filters by Samira Ahmed
• Romeo & Juliet (Film)
• Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Burnt Rifka

Student Choice

One of:

• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Honors

Required

• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Love, Hate, & Other Filters by Samira Ahmed
• The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare

Teacher Choice

• Romeo & Juliet (Film)

Student Choice

One of:

• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Essentials

Required

• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Illustrated Man (Excerpts) by Ray Bradbury
• A Long Way Gone (Excerpts) by Ishmael Beah
• The Odyssey (Excerpts) by Homer
• The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Teacher Choice

• The Hunger Games (Film) (2012)
• The Maze Runner (Film) (2014)

Student Choice

• Gone by Michael Grant
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• The Maze Runner by James Dashner

English

Required

• The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Sold by Patricia McCormick
• The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
• Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose

Teacher Choice

• The Chocolate War (Film) (1988)
  
• Fahrenheit 451 (Film) (2018)
  
• The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (Film) (1979)
  
• Twelve Angry Men (Film) (1997)

Academic

Required

• The Girl with Seven Names by Lee Hyeon-seo
• Sold by Patricia McCormick
• The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
• Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

Teacher Choice

• Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose
• The Fifth Wave by Rick Yancey
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• The Hunger Games (Film) (2012)
• Valkyrie (Film) (2008)

Honors

Required

• The Aeneid (Excerpts) by Virgil
• Blood Diamond (Film) (2006)
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• The Illiad (Excerpts) by Homer
• The Inferno (Excerpts) by Dante
• A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
• The Odyssey (Excerpts) by Homer
• The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Teacher Choice

• Fed Up (Documentary Film) (2014)
• The Social Dilemma (Documentary Film) (2020)

Essentials

Required

All My Sons by Arthur Miller
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Teacher Choice

The Glass Castle (Film) (2017)
Pay It Forward (Film) (2000)
Seven Pounds (Film) (2008)

English

Required

All My Sons by Arthur Miller
The Freedom Writers Diary by Erin Gruwell
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
When Stars are Scattered by Omar Mohamed and Victoria Jamieson
Pay It Forward (Film) (2000)

Teacher Choice

The Freedom Writers (Film) (2007)
The Great Gatsby (Film) (2013)
Seven Pounds (Film) (2008)

Student Choice

One of:

• They Called Us Enemy by George Takei (Graphic Novel)

OR

• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• The Glass Castle (Film) (2017)

OR

• The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom (novel)
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Film) (2004)"

Academic

Required

• All My Sons by Arthur Miller
• American Like Me (Excerpts)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Teacher Choice

• Dead Poets Society (Film) (1989)
• Pay it Forward (Film) (2000)
• Seven Pounds (Film) (2008)
• The Truman Show (Film) (1998)

Student Choice

One of:

• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

One of:

• They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
  
• When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka
  
• March Trilogy by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
  
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  
• The Crucible by Arthur Miller

One of:

• Fences by August Wilson
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Honors

Required

• All My Sons by Arthur Miller
• American Like Me (Excerpts)
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• The Crucible by Arthur Miller
• Dead Poets Society (Film) (1989)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• They Called Us Enemy by George Takei (Graphic Novel)

Student Choice

One of:

• Fences by August Wilson
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

AP

Required

• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau
• Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Macbeth by William Shakespeare
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Fences by August Wilson
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
• The Stranger by Albert Camus

Essentials

Required

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
• Macbeth by William Shakespeare
• Night by Elie Wiesel

English

Required

• American Like Me (Excerpts)
• The Book Thief (Film) (2013)
• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
• Gran Torino (Film) (2008)
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• March Trilogy by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
• Night by Elie Wiesel

Academic

Required

• 1984 by George Orwell
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
• Salam Neighbor (Film) (2015)
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• Two Million Minutes (Film) (2008)

Teacher Choice

• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
• I'm Not Leaving (Film) (2014)

One of:

• Hamlet by William Shakespeare
  
• Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Student Choice

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• Beowulf
• The Canterbury Tales (Excerpts) by Geoffry Chaucer
• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Honors

Required

• The Canterbury Tales (Excerpts) by Geoffry Chaucer
• Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Macbeth by William Shakespeare
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Teacher Choice

• Beowulf
• Hamlet (Film) (1991)
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
• The Importance of Being Earnest (Film) (2002)
• Jojo Rabbit (Film) (2019)
• Midnight in Paris (Film) (2011)
• Salam Neighbor (Film) (2015)
• The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore

AP

Required

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Teacher Choice

• The Importance of Being Earnest (Film) (2002)

Student Choice

Two of:

• Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
• Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
• Othello by William Shakespeare