Form 5 Literature
Here is a sampling of literature studied in 9th & 10th grade.
Year One: We Hold These Truths - From Foundations of Freedom to Titans of Industry
The Book of Philippians
Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation by Andrea Wulf
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Biographies and Speeches of the Founders, Presidents, and Influential Leaders
Selections from The Federalist Papers
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Selected Poetry from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Emily Dickinson
Selected Writings from Henry David Thoreau
Selected Short Stories and Poetry from Edgar Allan Poe
Selections from Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave by Frederick Douglass
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
White Fang by Jack London
Maggie: Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Year Two: The American Project - War, Work, Wealth, and Walls
The Book of Ephesians
What Einstein Told His Cook by Robert L. Wolke
One of Ours by Willa Cather
Selected Poetry from Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, William Carlos Williams
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Selections from E.B. White’s Non-Fiction
Selections from The Fifties by David Halberstam
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
Selected Speeches and Letters of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Selected Short Stories from Flannery O’Connor
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Selections from The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Giver by Lois Lowry