NYS Grades 9-12 Text Selections
These modules include authentic reading materials. Authentic reading materials include published works that are typically encountered by students in daily life, such as in magazines, books or newspapers. The use of authentic reading material may mean that some material is emotionally charged or may use language outside of a student's particular cultural experience.
As always, curriculum decisions are made at the local level.
Grade 9
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Module 1
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Module 2
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Module 3
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Module 4
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Mitchell, Black Swan Green
Russell, “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”
McCarthy, Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood
Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, Letters 1, 4, 7-8
Li Po, “A Poem of Changgan”
Pound, “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter”
Alexie, “Every Little Hurricane”
McCollough, Mornings on Horseback
Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
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Poe, “Tell-Tale Heart”
Hammett, The Maltese Falcon
Mosley, Devil in a Blue Dress
Doyle, “A Scandal in Bohemia”
King, The Beekeeper’s Apprentice
Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night
Sacks, “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat”
Levitt, “What Do Sumo Wrestlers and Schoolteachers Have In Common?”1
Harr, The Lost Painting
Auden, "Musee des Beaux Arts"
Bishop, "One Art," " In the Waiting Room
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Matthews, “A Poetry Reading At West Point”
Wayman, “Did I Miss Anything”
Chopin, The Awakening
Camus, The Stranger
Isben, A Doll’s House
Lessing, “To Room 19”
Cullen, “The Depressive and the Psychopath”2
Kincaid, “Girl”
Grandin, Animals in Translation
White, “Death of a Pig”
Lawrence, “Snake”
Bishop, “The Fish”
OrwelI, 1984
Frost, "The Wood Pile"
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Sophocles, Oedipus the King
Plutarch, “Consolation to his Wife”
Marquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Kafka, Metamorphosis
Hemingway, “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”
1 Samuel 17
Emerson, “Self Reliance”
Great Conversation Documents: FDR3
Neruda, “You’re the Result of Yourself”
Johnson, “Lift Every Voice and Sing”
Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Hurston. Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Grade 10
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Module 1
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Module 2
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Module 3
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Module 4
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Canin, “The Palace Thief”
Tan, The Joy Luck Club
Malamud, The Natural
Bissinger, Friday Night Lights
Colton, Counting Coup
Twain, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”
McPhee, “The Search for Marvin Gardens”
Du Bois, “The Talented Tenth”
Watson, The Double Helix
Card, “Ender’s Game”
Genesis 37-45
Marlowe, “The Passionate Shepherd to his Love”
Raleigh, “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”
Bronte, Jane Eyre
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Kipling, “White Man’s Burden”
King, “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
Great Conversation Documents: 19th Century Women’s Rights4
Hurston, “How It Feels to Be Colored Me”
Morrison, Song of Solomon
Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Soyinka, “Telephone Conversation”
Fugard, “Master Harold… and the Boys”
Roy, The God of Small Things
Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
Friedan, “The Problem that Has No Name”5
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Zusak, The Book Thief
Roach, Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers
Greene, “The Destructors”
Golding, Lord of the Flies
Spiegelman, Maus
Silko, Ceremony
Dickinson, “Because I could not stop for Death”
Browning, “Porphyria’s Lover”
Frost, “Home Burial”
Woolf, “The Death of the Moth”
Stanford Prison Experiment6
Shakespeare, Macbeth
Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
Bradstreet, "The Author to her Book"
Eliot, "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock"
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Zogby, What Arabs Think
Wilson, Fences
Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory
Orwell, Animal Farm
Marx, The Communist Manifesto
Menken, “On Being an American”
O’Connor, “Good Country People”
Lewis, Screwtape Letters, Letter #1
Updike, “A & P”
Mansfield, “The Garden Party”
Leopold, “Thinking Like a Mountain”
Beavan, No Impact Man
cummings, “I sing of Olaf glad and big”
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
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Grade 11
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Module 1
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Module 2
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Module 3
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Module 4
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Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily”
Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted
Melville, “Bartleby the Scriviner”
Haslett, “Notes to my Biographer”
Dostoyevsky, Notes From Underground
Gogol, “The Nose”
Hawthorne, “The Minister’s Black Veil”
Smart, “Jubilate Agno (For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry)”
Rosetti, “Goblin Market”
Borges, “The Garden of Forking Paths”
Shakespeare, Hamlet
Browning, "My Last Duchess"
Coleridge. "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
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Swift, “A Modest Proposal”
Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, “The Middle Passage”
Douglass, 1852 Speech at Rochester
Turkel, Working7
Brecht, “A Worker Reads History”
Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed
Miller, “Tragedy and the Common Man”
Chief Joseph, “I Will Fight No More Forever”
Boo, Beyond the Beautiful Forevers
Greely, Anatomy of a Face
Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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Lincoln, “Gettysburg Address”
Obama, “A More Perfect Union”
Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”
Jones, The Known World
Wilder, “Our Town”
Auden, “Funeral Blues”
Shakespeare, Sonnet 29
Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Lahiri, “Interpreter of Maladies”
Chief Seattle 1854 Speech
Egan, The Worst Hard Time
Carson, Silent Spring, Chapter 1
McKibbon, “New Math”
Swift, Gulliver's Travels
Brooks, A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon
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Sandel, “The Moral Side of Murder”8
Hersey, Hiroshima
Jin, “The Emperor”
Gordimer, “The Moment Before the Gun Went Off”
Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
Schlink, The Reader
Great Conversation Documents: Segregation9
Branch, “The Montgomery Bus Boycott”10
Ogletree, All Deliberate Speed
Kozol, Savage Inequalities
O’Brien, “On The Rainy River”
Erdrich, “The Red Convertible”
Hayden, “[American Journal]”
Kafka, The Trial
Dante, " Inferno"
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Grade 12
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Module 1
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Module 2
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Module 3
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Module 4
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Shelley, Frankenstein
Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Shakespeare, Richard III
Machiavelli, The Prince, Chapter 15
Sun Tsu, The Art of War, Chapter 3
Diamond, “Collision at Cajamarca”11
Great Conversation Documents: Revolutionary Era12
Malcolm X, Autobiography
Haidt, “The moral roots of liberals and conservatives”13
Tolan, “The Lemon Tree”14
Fitzgerald, “Bernice Bobs Her Hair”
Plath, “Lady Lazarus”
Shakespeare, King Lear
Aeschylus, Oresteia
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Edwards, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
Larkin, “Church Going”
Collins, “Questions about Angels”
DeGrasse Tyson, "The Perimeter of Ignorance"
Salzman, Lying Awake
Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
King, “I Have a Dream”
Lincoln, Second Inaugural
Book of Ruth
Qur’an, Sura 37 (As-Saaffat): 83-112
Clough, “The Latest Decalogue” Haught, “God Says Yes To Me” Arnold, “Dover Beach”
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Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
Bradstreet, “To My Dear and Loving Husband”
Shakespeare, Sonnet 138
Halberstam, Fifties, Chapters 21 & 39
Proulx, “Brokeback Mountain”
1 Corinthians 13
Carver, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”
Cheever, “Goodbye, My Brother”
Diaz, “The Three Heartbreaks of Belicia Cabral”15
Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Ackerman, A Natural History of Love
Duras, “The Atlantic Man”
Dacey, “Jill, Afterwards”
Shange, "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf"
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Wallace, This is Water
Walker, “Everyday Use”
Morrison, Nobel Prize Lecture
Thoreau, “Where I Lived, & What I Lived For”16
Dillard, “Living Like Weasels”
Jewett, “A White Heron”
Joyce, “The Dead”
Whitman, “This Compost”
Chesterton, “The Fallacy of Success”
Hitchcock, Rear Window
McCann, Let The Great World Spin
McEwan, Atonement
Dennis, “The God Who Loves You”
Chaucer, "The Canterbury Tales"
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