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This section contains downloadable resources for more than a dozen novels, memoirs, and plays commonly taught in high school English classes.

Here is the list of texts.  Go to the DOWNLOAD ZONE for all of the files (including introductory strategies, comprehension questions, quizzes, and various projects).  NOTE: Asterisked items could possibly be used in 8th grade.

• 1984—George Orwell
  
• A Doll’s House—Henrik Ibsen
  
• A Hope in the Unseen—Ron Suskind
  
• An Island Like You--Judith Ortiz Cofer*
• Black Boy—Richard Wright*
  
• Fahrenheit 451—Ray Bradbury*
  
• Hamlet—William Shakespeare
  
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings—Maya Angelou
  
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl--Harriet Jacobs
• Julius Caesar—William Shakespeare
  
• Lord of the Flies—William Golding
  
• Love Letters—A.R. Gurney
  
• Native Son—Richard Wright
  
• Song of Solomon—Toni Morrison
  
• The Great Gatsby—F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
• The Handmaid’s Tale—Margaret Atwood
  
• The Kite Runner—Khaled Hosseini
  
• The Street—Ann Petry
  
• Their Eyes Were Watching God—Zora Neale Hurston
  
• When I Was Puerto Rican—Esmeralda Santiago