As students in grades 11 & 12 are able to choose from a wide selection of English courses, the literature for electives is not aligned to specific Maine Learning Results.  

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Grade 11 & 12

Core Titles (will be covered)      

11/12 English Electives (Reserved for grade level)  

AP English Literature

• All the King's Men

  • Author

    • Warren, Robert Penn

  • Lexile

    • 1130

• Hard Times

  • Author

    • Dickens, Charles

  • Lexile

    • 1060

• Oedipus Rex

  • Author

    • Sophocles

• Othello

  • Author

    • Shakespeare, William

  • Lexile

    • NP

     

• A Prayer for Owen Meany

  • Author

    • Irving, John

  • Lexile

    • 1050

AP Language and Composition

• 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology

• Editor

  • Cohen, Samuel

• Lexile

  • N/A

• An American Childhood

• Author

  • Dillard, Annie

• Lexile

  • 1040

   

• Frankenstein

• Author

•         Shelley, Mary

• Growing Up 

• Author

  • Baker, Russell

• Lexile

  • 1090

   

• In Cold Blood

• Author

  • Capote, Truman

• Lexile

  • 1040

• Into the Wild

• Author

  • Krakauer, Jon

• Lexile

  • 1270

• On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Non-
  Fiction

  • Author

    • Zinsser, William

• Self Reliance

  • Author

    • Emerson, Ralph Waldo

• The Things They Carried

  • Author

    • O'Brien, Tim

  • Lexile

    • 880

   

AP Prep

• Angela’s Ashes

  • Author

    • McCourt, Frank

  • Lexile

    • 1110

• The English Patient

  • Author

    • Ondaatje, Michael

  • Lexile

    • 910

• Grendel

  • Author

    • Gardner, John 

  • Lexile

    • 920

Autobiography- Shaping identities

• Esperanza Rising

  • Author

    • Ryan, Pam Munoz

  • Lexile

    • 750 

     

• Forgotten Fire

  • Author

    • Bagdasarian, Adam

  • Lexile

    • 1050

College Composition

• All My Sons

  • Author

    • Miller, Arthur

• Death of a Salesman

  • Author

    • Miller, Arthur

  • Lexile

    • NP

     

• Hamlet

  • Author

    • Shakespeare

  • Lexile

    • NP

Journalism

• Journalism Today

  • Author

    • Various 

Literature and the Adolescent

• Breathing Underwater

  • Author

    • Flinn, Alex

  • Lexile

    • 510

• Into the Forest

  • Author

    • Hegland, Jean 

• Seek

  • Author

    • Fleischman, Paul

  • Lexile

    • NP 

• Speak

  • Author

    • Anderson, Laurie 

  • Lexile

    • 690  

• Whale Talk

  • Author

    • Crutcher, Chris

  • Lexile

    • 1000

Movies: a Look at the Greats

• (To Be Determined)

  •  

    •  

Multicultural World Literature

• Black Boy

  • Author

    • Wright, Richard

  • Lexile

    • 950

• Braided Lives: An Anthology of Multicultural American Writing

  • Author

    • Various

• How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

  • Author

    • Alvarez, Julia

  • Lexile

    • 950

• Hunchback of Notre Dame

  • Author

    • Hugo, Victor

• Kaffir Boy

  • Author

    • Mathabane, Mark

  • Lexile

    • 1040

• Les Miserables

  • Author

    • Hugo, Victor

  • Lexile

    • 990

• The Little Prince

  • Author

    • St. Exupery, Antoine

  • Lexile

    • 710

• Monkey Bridge

  • Author

    • Lau, Cao

• Native Son

  • Author

    • Baldwin, James

  • Lexile

    • 700

• The Power of One

  • Author

    • Courtenay, Bryce

  • Lexile

    • 1080

• Six Characters in Search of an Author

  • Author

    • Pirandello, Luigi

  • Lexile

    • NP

• The Stranger

  • Author

    • Camus, Albert

  • Lexile

    • 880

• A Walk in My World

  • Author

    • Mazer, Anne

Mythology and Archetypes

• Mythology

  • Author

    • Hamilton, Edith

  • Lexile

    • 1040

Overcoming Adversity

• Insatiable: The Compelling Story 

  • Author

    • Eliot, Eve

• It’s Not About the Bike

  • Author

    • Armstrong, Lance

  • Lexile

    • 890

• A Man Named Dave

  • Author

    • Pelzer, David J.

• One Child

  • Author

    • Hayden, Torey L.

  • Lexile

    • 820

• A Rock and a Hard Place

  • Author

    • Johnson, Anthony Godby

  • Lexile

    • 990

• Trail Mix: Stories of Youth 

  • Author

    • Corriveau, Danielle

Poetry

• (To Be Determined )

   

Shakespeare

• (To Be Determined )

  • Author

    • Shakespeare, William

Short Stories

• Fifty Great American Short Stories

  • Author

    • Crane, Milton

Sports Literature

• Friday Night Lights

  • Author

    • Bissinger, H.G. 

  • Lexile

    • 1260

   

• October 1964

  • Author

    • Halberstam, David

   

• The Punch

  • Author

    • Feinstein, John

Technical Writing

• (To Be Determined)

  • Author

    •  

Topics in Film & Media

• Understanding Movies

  • Author

    • Giannetti, Louis

Women in Literature

• Awakening

  • Author

    • Chopin, Kate

  • Lexile

    • 960

• Joy Luck Club

  • Author

    • Tan, Amy

  • Lexile

    • 930

• Memoirs of a Geisha

  • Author

    • Golden, Arthur

  • Lexile

    • 1000

• Middlemarch

  • Author

    • Eliot, George

• Pride and Prejudice

  • Author

    • Austen, Jane

  • Lexile

    • 1100

• Short Stories

  • Author

    • Cather, Willa

Grade 11 (Extended Titles)

•     Autobiography of Malcolm X, The

                    Author

                            Malcolm X

                    Genre

                            Autobiography

                    Lexile

                            1120

• Chronicle of a Death Foretold

•  Author

                    Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

•   Genre

                  World Literature Translation

•    Lexile

                    1270

The House of Spirits

•  Author

                    Allende, Isabel

•  Genre

                    World Literature Translation

•  Lexile

                    1280

Like Water for Chocolate

•  Author

                    Esquivel, Laura

•  Genre

                    World Literature Translation

•   Lexile

                    1030