Sunday, December 21, 2008

9th Grade Reading List

We have been working on putting online a 9th Grade Reading list of classic literature. Here's what we have put up so far (most, soon all, have both etext and audio):

Short Stories
The Interlopers, by Saki
The Gift of the Magi by O.Henry
The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
The Rocking-Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence
To Build a Fire by Jack London
Tobermory by Saki

Poetry
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer by Walt Whitman
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth
The Seven Ages of Man by William Shakespeare
Fire and Ice by Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
The Wreck of the Hesperus by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

Drama
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Epic
The Odyssey

Novels
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Moby Dick by Herman Melville

If you have some suggestions to add to the curriculum, please do not hesitate to let us know and we will add it. Please remember, however, that we can only post selections in the public domain.

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