The College Board’s SAT recommended reading list

–	Beowulf
Achebe, Chinua	Things Fall Apart
Agee, James	A Death in the Family
Austen, Jane	Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James	Go Tell It on the Mountain
Beckett, Samuel	Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul	The Adventures of Augie March
Brontë, Charlotte	Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily	Wuthering Heights
Camus, Albert	The Stranger
Cather, Willa	Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chaucer, Geoffrey	The Canterbury Tales
Chekhov, Anton	The Cherry Orchard
Chopin, Kate	The Awakening
Conrad, Joseph	Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fenimore	The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen	The Red Badge of Courage
Dante	Inferno
de Cervantes, Miguel	Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel	Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles	A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor	Crime and Punishment
Douglass, Frederick	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dreiser, Theodore	An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre	The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George	The Mill on the Floss
Ellison, Ralph	Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	Selected Essays
Faulkner, William	As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William	The Sound and the Fury
Fielding, Henry	Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott	The Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustave	Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox	The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	Faust
Golding, William	Lord of the Flies
Hardy, Thomas	Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel	The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph	Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest	A Farewell to Arms
Homer	The Iliad
Homer	The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor	The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale	Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous	Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik	A Doll’s House
James, Henry	The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry	The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz	The Metamorphosis
Kingston, Maxine Hong	The Woman Warrior
Lee, Harper	To Kill a Mockingbird
Lewis, Sinclair	Babbitt
London, Jack	The Call of the Wild
Mann, Thomas	The Magic Mountain
Marquez, Gabriel García	One Hundred Years of Solitude
Melville, Herman	Bartleby the Scrivener
Melville, Herman	Moby Dick
Miller, Arthur	The Crucible
Morrison, Toni	Beloved
O’Connor, Flannery	A Good Man is Hard to Find
O’Neill, Eugene	Long Day’s Journey into Night
Orwell, George	Animal Farm
Pasternak, Boris	Doctor Zhivago
Plath, Sylvia	The Bell Jar
Poe, Edgar Allan	Selected Tales
Proust, Marcel	Swann’s Way
Pynchon, Thomas	The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria	All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond	Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry	Call It Sleep
Salinger, J.D.	The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William	Hamlet
Shakespeare, William	Macbeth
Shakespeare, William	A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare, William	Romeo and Juliet
Shaw, George Bernard	Pygmalion
Shelley, Mary	Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon	Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander	One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sophocles	Antigone
Sophocles	Oedipus Rex
Steinbeck, John	The Grapes of Wrath
Stevenson, Robert Louis	Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher	Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Swift, Jonathan	Gulliver’s Travels
Thackeray, William	Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David	Walden
Tolstoy, Leo	War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan	Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Voltaire	Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr.	Slaughterhouse-Five
Walker, Alice	The Color Purple
Wharton, Edith	The House of Mirth
Welty, Eudora	Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt	Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar	The Picture of Dorian Gray
Williams, Tennessee	The Glass Menagerie
Woolf, Virginia	To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard	Native Son

Week 3

English 9B Week 3

Day	Date	Assignment	√
Monday	1/26	Review Bill of Rights Go to  Bill of Rights Link Memorize 1st and 4th Amendments (optional)
Class work		Formative Assessment
Homework		Review Works Cited Lists Parenthetical Citations for Quiz
Tuesday	1/27
Class work		Formative Assessment
Homework		Work on Revision of What Makes a Good Team Paper
Wednesday	1/28
Class work		Formative Assessment
Homework		Work on Revision of What Makes a Good Team paper
Thursday	1/29
Class work		Bring a printout of your paper to class Peer Review and Socratic Seminar
Homework		AR Reading and Makeup Quiz for last Week due
Friday	1/30
Class work		Formative Assessment
Homework		AR Reading and 2 Reading Logs Second Quiz due next Friday

English 9B Week 2

Tuesday 1/20 : Works Cited and Parenthetical Citations. Class meets in Library


Wednesday-Friday :  Assessment Exam Process

1. Background Information
2. Annotation of Texts
3. Pair/share Work
4. Timed in class Essay.

Homework:

As some teams did a great job on the Poetry Analysis and others did not work together, you
will all read about what enables successful teamwork.

Download and Annotate Why Some Teams Are Smarter Than Others

Write a  5-paragraph summary of the article and submit to turnitin.com by Thursday at 5:30 PM.
Be sure to identify the 3 key elements of a successful team. Be sure to discuss your experiences on teams such as your experience on your poetry team and/or your Video Production Team.

English 9B Week 1 Rev 1 Subject to Change

English 9B Week 1

Day	Date	Assignment	√
Monday	1/12
Class work		The Odyssey   Part II Ongoing Driving Questions: ·      How do humans find/search for identity? ·      How do we face “tests”? ·      How does gender and race impact the “tests” one faces?  Close Reading Folder Dicuments are in in Box: Print out or Upload for easy access on Day 1 of class Close Reading Assignment:
Homework		You will:  Analyze the TONE in one of the following poems:  You will be assigned to a team.   Calypso by Suzanne Vega The Cyclops in the Ocean by Nikki Giovanni An Ancient Gesture by Edna St. Vicent Millay Ithaca by C.P. Cavafy The Sea Call by Nikos Kazantzakis Pay attention to Word choice, details, and imagery. Make sure you discuss: • How does the author’s use of words, imagery, or details such as gesture or allusions reveal the author’s attitude toward a character or event in the story? • What words best describe the author’s attitude toward this subject, character, or event? All students complete “I will” statement.  Due at beginning of class on Tuesday!
Tuesday	1/3
Class work		Work on Analysis of Poem  Review Handouts
Homework		Work on Analysis of Poem
Wednesday	1/14
Class work		Library  STAR Test and Take out AR Book
Homework
Thursday	1/15	Library Works Cited Review Parenthetical Citations
Class work		Library  Works Cited Lists Parenthetical Citations
Homework		Team Captains to Submit Paper to turnitin.com by 5:30 PM. Remember paper must include Works Cited List and Citations when appropriate. No late work will be accepted this semester unless NMA criteria are met!
Friday	1/16
Class work		Works Cited Lists Parenthetical Citations
Homework		TBA

"I will" Task Assessment before all assignments

Work with a partner to analyze the task to determine what you will need to do to successfully complete it. Highlight or underline each element or step of the task you need to consider, using a different color for each element. Once you have color coded each element of the task, create an “I will” statement to address what it is you will do to address each element of the prompt.

I will have read ______________________________________

_______________________________________

_______________________________________  (yellow)

I will write a/an   ____________________________________________(blue) 

I will address the question (whether one should ______________________________________). 

(pink)

I will argue either for or against X___________________  ________________________(or to what extent we should have that expectation). (red) 

I will use evidence from the following texts  _______________________________________________    to support my argument. (green)

I will address the counterarguments. “Others may think that_____________________________________________________________________________________________(black).