Summer Reading Common Core Texts for 9th and 10th Grade

Common Core Texts for 9th and 10th grade

The Tragedy of Macbeth byWilliamShakespeare(1592)

 • “Ozymandias”by Percy Bysshe Shelley(1817) 

• “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe (1845)
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Informational Texts: Literary Nonfiction

• “Letter on Thomas Jefferson” by John Adams (1776)

 •NarrativeoftheLifeofFrederickDouglass,an American Slave by FrederickDouglass(1845) 

• “Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: Address to Parliament on May 13th, 1940” by Winston Churchill (1940)

 •Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad byAnn Petry(1955) 

•Travels with Charley:In Search of America by JohnSteinbeck(1962)
• “Speech to the Second Virginia Convention”byPatrickHenry(1775) 

• “FarewellAddress”byGeorgeWashington(1796) 

• “Gettysburg Address” by Abraham Lincoln (1863) 

• “State of the Union Address” by Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1941)

 • “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1964)
• “Hope, Despair and Memory” by Elie Wiesel (1997)

9-10 • “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry (1906)

 • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939) 

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)

 • TheKillerAngels by MichaelShaara (1975)