Title: / Author:
NOVELS:
Waimea Summer / John Dominis Holt
The Scarlet Letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain
Stargirl / Jerry Spinelli
The Good Earth / Pearl Buck
This Rock / Rogert Morgan
Little Women / Louisa May Alcott
Holes / Louis Sachar
Shattering Glass / Gail Giles
Family / J. California Cooper
All Asking for Is My Body / Milton Murayama
Their Eyes Were Watching God / Zora Neal
‘The Girl Who Wouldn’t Talk“ from The Woman Warrior. / Maxine Hong Kingston
Traditional Literature of Hawai’i:
A Legendary Tradition of Kamapua`a / Translated: Lilikala Kame’eleihiwa
“The Legend of the Shark-Man Nanaue” / Retold by Alfons L. Korn
PLAYS:
Emmalehua / Victoria Kneubuhl
Kamau / Alani Apio
Mele Kanikau / John Kneubuhl
A Raisin in the Sun / Lorraine Hansberry
The Glass Menagerie / Tennessee Williams
The Crucible / Arthur Miller
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Up from Slavery / Booker T .Washington
Excerpt from The Interesting Narrative of the Liife of Olaudah Equiano / Olaudah Eqiano
SHORT STORIES:
“The Story of Lonoikamakahiki” (traditional moolelo) / Samuel Kamakau
“The Pool” / John Dominis Holt
“ Ho’oulu Lahui” / Victoria Kneubhul
“The Washerwoman’s Children” / Witi Ihimaera
Katherine Mansfield
“The Healer” / Marjorie Crocombe
“Cora Unashamed” / Langston Hughes
“Moso’oi” / Noralynn Samalaulu Schubert Kanemura
“The Enormous Radio” / John Cheever
“Absolution” / F. Scott Fitzgeral
“Spin” / Tim O’Brain
Essays/NonFiction:
“Voices of Today Echo Voices of the Past” / Davianna McGregor Alegado
“Hawaiian Vv Kanaka Maoli As Metaphors” / Keukini Blaisdell
“The Hawaiian Renaissance” / George Kanahele
“The Politics of Meaning: Emergent ideology in Popular Hawaiian Music” / George H. Lewis.
“On Being Hawaiian” / John Dominis Holt
Ano Ano / Kristin Zambuka
“Giving Back” / Alani Apio
“Hawai’I Loa” / Nainoa Thompson
Excerpts from Ho’i Ho’i Hou / Rodney Morales
Excerpts from “Introduction: What is Literature” in Literary Theory / Terry Eagleton
“The Quest for Relevance” in Decolinising the Mind / Ngugi Wa Thiongo
Magazine Articles from Hana Hou
“Healing Heÿeia” / Catherine Lo (April/May 2007
“Found in Translation” / Chad Blair (Feb/March 2007)
“A Road Less Taken” / Curt Sanburn (Feb/March 07)
“Art of the Warrior” / Dennis Hollier (Feb/Mar 07)
Honors English 11:
NOVELS:
The Scarlet Letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne
Candide / Voltaire
The Age of Innocence / David Hamilton
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / James Joyce
My Antonia / Willa Cather
The Great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald
Their Eyes Were Watching God / Zora Neale
Illusions / Richard Bach
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain
PLAYS:
Othello / Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew / Shakespeare
Our Town / Thornton Wilder
Fences / August Wilson
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave / Frederick Douglass
Reading Strategies:
All I Asking for Is My Body / Milton Murayama
Growing Up Local: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose from Hawai’i / Eric Chock, et al, eds.
SHORT STORIES:
“Rip Van Winkle” / Washington Irving
‘The End of Something” / Ernest Hemingway
“In Another Country" / Ernest Hemingway
“Maestria” / Mario Suarez
“The Key” / Isaac Bashevis Singer
“Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce
"Rappaccini’s Daughter"
/ Nathaniel Hawthorne“Secret Life of Walter Mitty" / James Thurber
"The Masque of the Red Death” / Edgar Allan Poe
ESSAYS/NON-FICTION:
“Civil Disobedience” / Henry David Thoreau
“Speech to the Virginia Convention” / Patrick Henry
“Self-Reliance” / Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America” / Benjamin Franklin
The Battle with Mr. Covey” from Walden / Henry David Thoreau
“Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech" / William Faulkner
"What is an American?” / J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur
“What’s Happening to America?” / John Steinbeck
“More than Just a Shrine: Paying Homage to the Ghosts of Ellis Island” / Mary Gordon
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”. / Jonathan Edwards
DOCUMENTS:
“The Declaration of Independence” / Thomas Jefferson
“The Gettysburg Address” / Abraham Lincoln
Directed Reading List Students Select from the following text
American Literature
Go Tell It on the Mountain / James BaldwinThe Awakening / Kate Chopin
Heart of Dearkness / Joseph Conrad
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass / Frederick Douglas
Invisible Man / Ralph Ellison
As I Lay Dying / William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury / William Faulkner
The Great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Scarlet Letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Farewell to Arms / Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God / Zora Neale Hurston
Brave New World / Aldous Huxkley
The Portrait of a Lady / Henry James
The Woman Warrior / Maxine Hong Kingston
Moby Dick / Herman Melville
The Crucible / Arthur Miler
Beloved / Toni Morrison
Ceremony / Leslie Marmon Silko
The Grapes of Wrath / John Steinbeck
Walden / Henry David Thoreau
Slaughterhouse-Five / Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Color Purple / Alice Walker
Native Son / Richard Wright
Literature of Oceania in English*
Once Were Warriors / Alan Duffwhere we once belonged / Sia Figel
Baby No Eyes / Patricia Grace
The Matriarch / Witi Ihimaera
Rolling the RRRs / R. Zamora Linmark
The Best of Bamboo Ridge / eds. D. Lum & E. Chock
The Red Wind / Ian MacMillan
The Tattoo / Chris McKinney
When the Shark Bites / Rodney Morales
All I Asking for is My Body / Milton Muriyama
Light in the Crevice Never Seen / Haunani-Kay Trask
Makai / Kathleen Tyau
Pouliuli / Albert Wendt
Blu’s Hanging / Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Kamapuaÿa / Lilikalä Kameÿeleihiwa (translator)