Calcasieu Parish

English Language Arts

Anchor Texts by Grade-Level

This list was developed based on the state and district scope and sequences, according to the text-complexity standards set forth by PARCC.

Items in bold are readily available for classroom use in the district.

Items with an asterisk* are Appendix B Exemplars

9th Grade

  • Bradbury, Ray-Fahrenheit 451*
  • Dickens, Charles- Great Expectations
  • Dickens, Charles- A Tale of Two Cities
  • Hamilton, Edith- Mythology
  • Homer-The Odyssey*
  • Lee, Harper- To Kill A Mockingbird*
  • Potok, Chaim- The Chosen
  • Shakespeare, William- Romeo and Juliet
  • Sophocles-Antigone
  • ten Boom, Corrie- The Hiding Place
  • Weisel, Elie- Night
  • Williams, Tennessee- The Glass Menagerie*
  • Zusak, Marcus- The Book Thief*

10th Grade

  • Achebe, Chinua-Things Fall Apart*
  • Burns, Olive Ann- Cold Sassy Tree
  • Gaines, Ernest- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
  • Golding, William- The Lord of the Flies
  • Pollan, Michael-The Omnivore’s Dilemma
  • Schlosser, Eric- Fast Food Nation
  • Shakespeare, William- The Tragedy of Macbeth*
  • Shakespeare, William- Julius Caesar
  • Shakespeare, William- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  • Shaara, Michael- The Killer Angels*
  • Shelley, Mary W.- Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus
  • Sinclair, Upton- The Jungle
  • Skloot, Rebecca- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
  • Sophocles-Oedipus Rex*
  • Steinbeck, John- Of Mice and Men
  • Stowe, Harriett Beecher- Uncle Tom’s Cabin
  • Tan, Amy- The Joy Luck Club*

11th Grade

  • Ackerman, Diane- The Zookeeper’s Wife
  • Ambrose, Stephen-Undaunted Courage
  • Barbery, Muriel- The Elegance of the Hedgehog
  • Boyle, T.C.- The Tortilla Curtain
  • Capote, Truman- In Cold Blood
  • Cather, Willa- O Pioneers!
  • Cullen, Jim- The American Dream
  • Faulkner, William- As I Lay Dying*
  • Faulkner, William- The Unvanquished
  • Fitzgerald, F. Scott- The Great Gatsby*
  • Hansberry, Lorraine- A Raisin in the Sun
  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel- The Scarlet Letter*
  • Hemingway, Ernest- A Farewell to Arms*
  • Hurston, Zora Neale- Their Eyes Were Watching God*
  • Melville, Herman- Billy Budd, Sailor*
  • Miller, Arthur- The Crucible
  • Miller, Arthur- Death of a Salesmen
  • Twain, Mark- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • Wilder, Thornton- Our Town*
  • Wilkerson, Isabel- The Warmth of Other Suns
  • Wright, Richard- Black Boy*
  • Wharton, Edith- Ethan Frome

12th Grade

  • Austen, Jane- Pride and Prejudice*
  • Bronte, Charlotte- Jane Eyre*
  • Chaucer, Geoffrey- The Canterbury Tales*
  • Christie, Agatha- Murder on the Orient Express
  • Junger, Sebastian- The Perfect Storm
  • Kingsolver, Barbara- The Poisonwood Bible
  • Krakauer, John- Into Thin Air
  • Malory, Sir Thomas- L’Morted’Arthur
  • Orwell, George- “Politics and the English Language” from All Art is Propaganda*
  • Shakespeare, William- Hamlet
  • Shakespeare, William- Othello
  • Shakespeare, William- King Lear
  • Shaw, George- Pygmalion
  • Swift, Jonathan- Gulliver’s Travels
  • Unknown author- Beowulf
  • White, T. H. - The Once and Future King
  • Wilde, Oscar- The Importance of Being Earnest*

The following texts have been moved to the middle grades on the state scope-sequence:

Avi- Nothing But the Truth

Hinton, S.E.- The Outsiders

Keyes, Daniel- Flowers for Algernon

Lowry, Lois- The Giver

Paulsen, Gary- Hatchet

London, Jack- Call of the Wild

Steinbeck, John-The Pearl

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