FHC Communication Arts Novels & Videos

The Communication Arts teachers will be choosing from the following list the books and plays for the students of this course to read. A title may be chosen for the entire class to read together, for smaller study group to share or an individual student to enjoy. Each teacher will select the books for his/her class that best fits the curriculum / learning targets. Teachers may choose books/videos from other classes, so please review entire list.

English I / English II
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
The Blind Side by John Lee Hancock
Buried Onions by Gary Soto
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Aladdin by John Musker
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Secret Life of Bees by Susan Monk Kidd
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsglover
Shrek by William Steig
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter
Freedom Writers by Richard LaGravenese
12 Angry Men by Sidney Lumet
Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes
Avatar by James Cameron
Anthem by Ayn Rand
The Lion King by Roger Allers
A Midsummer’s Night Dream by William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare / Finding Nemo by Andrew Stanton
Typical American by Gish Jen
Remember the Titans by Jerry Bruckheimer
In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh
Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowen
My Big Fat Greek Wedding by Nia Vardalos
Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya
Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh DuMas
The Office by Greg Daniels
Night by Elie Wiesel
House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Mean Girls by Rosalind Wiseman
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolpho Anaya
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Hiroshima by John Hershey
The Simpsons by Matt Groening
Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
So Far From God by Ana Castillo
Hotel Rwanda by Keir Pearson & Terry George
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Pursuit of Happyness by Steve Conrad
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
High Cost of Low Prices: Wal-Mart Documentary
English III / Senior Literature and Composition
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Café by Fannie Flagg
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
Native Son by Richard Wright
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines
O Pioneers by Willa Cather
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Mississippi Solo by Eddy Harris
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Having Our Say by The Delaney Sisters
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Meyers
Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
A Street Car Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Our Town by Eugene Wood
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Black Elk Speaks by John. G Neihardt
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
In Cold Blood (AP LANG) by Truman Capote / Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles by Sophocles
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Dubliners by James Joyce
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
1984 by George Orwell
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Grendel by John Gardner
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Man of all Seasons by Robert Bolt
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Once and Future King by T.H. White
Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare / Miscellaneous
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
Tempest by William Shakespeare
Richard III by William Shakespeare
Othello by William Shakespeare
Henry V by William Shakespeare
Henry IV by William Shakespeare
Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare / Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
Call of the Wild by Jack London
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Different Seasons by Stephen King
20,000 Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
The Friends by Rosa Guy
That was Then, This is now by S.E. Hinton
Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O’Brien
The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney
Brian’s Song by William Blinn
Forbidden City by Geremie R. Barme
Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman
Lost Horizon by James Hilton
Zia by Scott O’Dell
A Day no Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
Shabanu by Suzanne Fisher Staple
Picture Bride by Yoshiko Uchida
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Man of La Mancha by Dale Wasserman

By signing below, you agree to allow your child read/view any of these selections. If you have any objections to the above, please indicate below which you would prefer your child not read/view. They will be given an alternative but equal opportunity.

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