COLLEGE BOUND ENGLISH IV
MS. JUST
ROOM 118
(Revised August 16, 2010)
COURSE OVERVIEW
English IV is a senior level high school class which is required for
graduation. In English IV students will explore and analyze British
Literature in the following order: Anglo Saxon period (Beowulf, riddles, and
works of Bede), Medieval Period (Canterbury Tales, Arthurian Legend, and
Ivanhoe), Renaissance Period (Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream),
Romantic Period and Gulliver's Travels, Pilgrim's Progress, Pygmalion, and My
Fair Lady. PG-13 versions of several of these literary classics will be
viewed during class time. Literary study will focus on understanding the
elements of these literature types and the relationship to present day
literature.
Another major focus of English IV is composition. Students will be required
to write at least three pieces each trimester and will have the opportunity
to earn a better grade by redoing any and every composition within one week
of the end of that six week grading period. Required writings will include:
technical (resume), descriptive, persuasive, research, and expository
writings.
Regular vocabulary study will be done weekly. Each student is responsible
for keeping his/her vocabulary in a notebook throughout the year for periodic
grading.
ASSESSMENT
Students will have an average of three daily assignments per week. The total
grade will come from composition, literature, and vocabulary. All assignments
are graded on a 100 point scale.
Students will receive a weekly agenda each Monday and a progress report on
Friday of each week (if funds are available for printing costs). Grades for
eligibility are turned in on Thursdays last hour and can not be changed until
the next Friday.
WEEKLY SCHEDULE
Monday ACT tests or grammar
Tuesday Literature or Composition assignment
Wednesday Literature or Composition assignment
Thursday Vocabulary TEST and record new vocabulary lesson
Friday Finish literature or composition as necessary.
About three weeks of every trimester will be spent on composition with this
schedule.
SUPPLIES
Box of Kleenex due by the end of the 2nd week-for an extra credit grade
A Google docs account to save typed work from school to home and back to
school
Loose-leaf paper (NO spiral)
Any color ink pens/pencils, except red. No work can be written in red.
2" 3-ring binder for a portfolio if a new student
1” notebook for research paper
1 box of colored pencils
Vocabulary folder or spiral
6 colors of highlighters for research
CLASSROOM RULES
Bring paper and pen or pencil to class every day
Final drafts of compositions must be typed
Bring books and assignments as required
If an absence is for a planned school activity, work must be turned in before
the student leaves
or it will be marked late.
NO LATE WORK IS EVER ACCEPTED!! THE ONLY WAY TO MAKE UP A ZERO IS AFTER
SCHOOL OR BEFORE SCHOOL TUTORING!
Only ONE day is allowed for makeup work from an absence.
Vocabulary tests will be every Thursday!
Be in your seat when the bell rings or be counted tardy.
Do not write on top of anything or touch anything on the teacher’s desk.
Use the stapler and other supplies at the front of the room, not off the
teacher’s desk.
EXTRA CREDIT
Five percentage points are added to the student's average for every writing
contest entered. Contests are displayed on the bulletin board. Contest
entries must be typed (with no mistakes) and follow ALL of the rules listed
on the contest. Contest ready pieces are due no later than one week before
the end of a six weeks grading period.
All extra credit and all essay re-writes are due one week before the end of
each six weeks grading period.
Students may gain extra credit by surpassing their AR goals. When a student
has reached
100% of his/her AR Goal 10 points are added to overall average
I understand the requirements for College Bound English IV and agree to abide
by these,
______________________
Student's signature
I understand the requirements for College Bound English IV, and I will
support my son or daughter in accomplishing these duties. I know that my son
or daughter will receive an agenda every Monday with the week’s work listed,
AND I am aware that he/she will receive a progress report EVERY Friday with a
current average. I am also aware of the teacher’s webpage at
http://teacherweb.com/OK/VinitaHS/Just.
I have gone to the website and listed my email address and/or cell phone
number on the My Announcements page.
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Parent's signature
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Date
Students and parents can reach Ms. Just at justdl@vinitahornets.com
A.P. ENGLISH LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION
COURSE DESCRIPTION
(revised August 16, 2010)
IMPORTANCE OF THE COURSE
A.P. English Literature and Composition is a part of the high school
accelerated program with the objectives of: acquainting student with college
level reading and writing; preparing students for the A.P. English Literature
exam through practice test taking; preparing students to identify and write
in the standard rhetorical modes; preparing students to write with greater
attention to syntax, vocabulary, and word choice; developing a more
sophisticated, creative writing style through frequent writing and revision;
and employing critical reading skills with college level materials both
fictional and nonfictional. Works to be studied will include: Hamlet,
Macbeth, Lord of the Flies, Brave New World, Jane Eyre, A Separate Peace,
Heart of Darkness, Invisible Man by Ellison, Crime and Punishment, 1984, The
Awakening, Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Their Eyes Were Watching
God and could include any work from the attached list of frequently used
works on the A.P. exam.
MATERIALS REQUIRED
Wide line loose-leaf paper
Black ink pens/pencils
Other color ink pens (purple, green, etc.)
A Google docs account to save typed work from school to home and back to
school
Post It notes
1 1” binder for vocabulary, literature notes, and writing
2" portfolio notebook if a new student
Novels as needed
Highlighter pens
Markers
Access to a dictionary and a computer
GOAL
The goal of the course is to meet the high demands of the A.P. English
Literature Test with realistic expectations and to prepare for college
entrance.
ASSIGNMENTS
Class work will be divided into literature assignments, essays related to
literature, and vocabulary study. All essays are required to be typed.
Students will write an extensive research project over a novel of choice from
the “Frequently used on the AP test” list during first trimester. During 2nd
trimester students will be given another book to read and analyze for a group
presentation to be presented 3rd trimester.
Students will be required to enter one competitive contest per six weeks and
can enter one other contest for 5 points extra credit added to their average
per trimester. (Required contests will probably be: 1st six weeks- Masonic
Lodge or Teen Ink, 2nd six weeks - OCTE, 3rd six weeks - American Legion
Auxiliary or REC, 4th six weeks – Teen Ink or J. Harrington poetry.)
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
All work is graded on a 100-point scale with the total grade coming from each
of these areas: literature, essays, and vocabulary. Much of the class work
is done orally with fewer grades given in this class than in other English
classes. Oftentimes only 8 -9 grades are taken in a six weeks.
EXTRA CREDIT
One contest can be entered each trimester for five percentage points added to
average. The entry must follow ALL contest rules and be turned in completely
correct one week before the end of the six week period!!
Students may gain extra credit by surpassing their AR goals.
110% for 5 points added into average
120%
130% for 10 points
140%
150% for 15 points
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I understand the requirements for AP English IV (A.P. Literature and
Composition) and agree to abide by these.
______________________
Student's signature
I understand the requirements for AP English IV, and I will support my son or
daughter in accomplishing these tasks. I accept the use of the materials
listed on this syllabus.
I have gone to the website: http://teacherweb.com/OK/VinitaHS/Just
and registered my email address and/or cell number.
_______________________ ________________________
Parent's signature Date
Parents can email Ms. Just anytime at justdl@vinitahornets.com
Titles from Free Response Questions on the AP Literature exams since 1973,
specific years in parentheses.
A
Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner (76, 00, 10)
Adam Bede by George Eliot (06)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (80, 82, 85, 91, 92, 94, 95,
96, 99, 05, 06, 07, 08)
The Aeneid by Virgil (06)
Agnes of God by John Pielmeier (00)
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (97, 02, 03, 08)
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (00, 04, 08)
All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren (00, 02, 04, 07, 08, 09)
All My Sons by Arthur Miller (85, 90)
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (95, 96, 06, 07, 08, 10)
America is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan (95)
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (81, 82, 95, 03)
American Pastoral by Philip Roth (09)
The American by Henry James (05, 10)
Angels in America by Tony Kushnet (09)
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (10)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (80, 91, 99, 03, 04, 06, 08, 09)
Another Country by James Baldwin (95, 10)
Antigone by Sophocles (79, 80, 90, 94, 99, 03, 05, 09)
Anthony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (80, 91)
Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler (94)
Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer (76)
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (78, 89, 90, 94, 01, 04, 06, 07, 09)
As You Like It by William Shakespeare (92, 05. 06, 10)
Atonement by Ian McEwan (07)
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson (02, 05)
The Awakening by Kate Chopin (87, 88, 91, 92, 95, 97, 99, 02, 07, 09)
B
“The Bear” by William Faulkner (94. 06)
Beloved by Toni Morrison (90, 99, 01, 03, 05, 07, 09, 10)
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul (03)
Benito Cereno by Herman Melville (89)
Billy Budd by Herman Melville (79, 81, 82, 83, 85, 99, 02, 04, 05, 07, 08)
The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter (89, 97)
Black Boy by Richard Wright (06, 08)
Bleak House by Charles Dickens (94, 00, 04, 09, 10)
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya (94, 96, 97, 99, 04, 05, 06, 08)
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (07)
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (95, 08, 09)
Bone: A Novel by Fae M. Ng (03)
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan (06, 07)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (89, 05, 09, 10)
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene (79)
Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos (09)
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevski (90, 08)
C
Candida by George Bernard Shaw (80)
Candide by Voltaire (80, 86, 87, 91, 95, 96, 04, 06)
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (06)
The Caretaker by Harold Pinter (85)
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (82, 85, 87, 89, 94, 01, 03, 04, 05, 07, 08)
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (01, 08)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams (00)
Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood (94, 08, 09)
The Centaur by John Updike (81)
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko (94, 96, 97, 99, 01, 03, 05, 06, 07, 09)
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov (77, 06, 07, 09, 10)
The Chosen by Chaim Potok (08)
“Civil Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau (76)
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (06, 08)
The Color Purple by Alice Walker (92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 05, 08, 09)
Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje (01)
Copenhagen by Michael Frayn (09)
The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett (10)
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton (85, 87, 91, 95, 96, 07, 09)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevski (76, 79, 80, 82, 88, 96, 99, 00,
01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 09, 10)
“The Crisis” by Thomas Paine (76)
The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy (09)
The Crucible by Arthur Miller (83, 86, 89, 04, 05, 09)
D
Daisy Miller by Henry James (97, 03)
Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel (01)
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (78, 83, 06)
“The Dead” by James Joyce (97)
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy (86)
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (86, 88, 94, 03, 04, 05, 07)
Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty (97)
Desire under the Elms by Eugene O’Neill (81)
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler (97)
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (06)
The Diviners by Margaret Laurence (95)
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe (79, 86, 99, 04)
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (10)
A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen (83, 87, 88, 95, 05, 09)
The Dollmaker by Harriet Arnot (91)
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (01, 04, 06, 08)
Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia (03)
Dutchman by Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones (03, 06)
E
East of Eden by John Steinbeck (06)
Emma by Jane Austen (96, 08)
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen (76, 80, 87, 99, 01, 07)
Equus by Peter Shaffer (92, 99, 00, 01, 08, 09)
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (80, 85, 03, 05, 06, 07)
The Eumenides by Aeschylus (in The Orestia) (96)
F
The Fall by Albert Camus (81)
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (99, 04, 09)
The Father by August Strindberg (01)
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (90)
Faust by Johann Goethe (02)
The Federalist by Alexander Hamilton (76)
Fences by August Wilson (02, 05, 09, 10)
Fifth Business by Robertson Davis (00)
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (03, 07)
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (07)
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (03, 06)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (89, 00, 03, 06, 08)
A Free Life: A Novel by Ha Jin (10)
G
A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines (00)
Germinal by Emile Zola (09)
A Gesture Life by Chang-Rae Lee (04, 05)
Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen (00, 04)
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (90, 94, 97, 99, 02, 08, 09, 10)
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (10)
Going After Cacciato by Time O’Brien (01, 06, 10)
The Golden Bowl by Henry James (09)
The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford (00)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (95, 03, 06, 09, 10)
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (79, 80, 88, 89, 92, 95, 96, 00, 01,
02, 03, 04, 05, 07, 08, 10)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (82, 83, 88, 91, 92, 97, 00, 02, 04,
05, 07, 10)
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin (83, 88, 90, 05, 09)
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (87, 89, 01, 04, 06, 09)
H
The Hairy Ape by Eugene O’Neill (89, 09)
Hamlet by William Shakespeare (88, 94, 97, 99, 00)
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (03, 09)
Hard Times by Charles Dickens (87, 90, 09)
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (76, 91, 94, 96, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04,
06, 09, 10)
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene (71)
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen (79, 92, 00, 02, 03, 05)
Henry IV, Parts I and II by William Shakespeare (80, 90, 08)
Henry V by William Shakespeare (02)
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes (08)
The Homecoming by Harold Pinter (78, 90)
Home to Harlem by Claude McKay (10)
A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S.Naipul (10)
House Made of Dawn by N Scott Momaday (95, 06, 09)
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (04, 07, 10)
The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (89)
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (08, 10)
I
The Iliad by Homer (80)
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (06)
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (10)
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien (00)
In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (05)
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (76, 77, 78, 82, 83, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 91,
94, 95, 96, 97, 01, 03, 04, 05, 07, 08, 09, 10)
J
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (78, 79, 80, 88, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97, 99, 00,
05, 07, 08. 10)
Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee (99, 10)
J.B. by Archibald MacLeish (81, 94)
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone by August Wilson (00)
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (97, 03)
Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding (99)
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (76, 80, 85, 87, 95, 09, 10)
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (82, 97, 07, 09)
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (77, 78, 82, 88, 89, 90, 96, 09)
K
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (08)
King Lear by William Shakespeare (77, 78, 82, 88, 89, 90, 96, 01, 03, 06, 08,
10)
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseinii (07, 08, 09)
L
Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde (09)
A Lesson before Dying by Ernest Gaines (99)
Letters from an American Farmer by de Crevecoeur (76)
Light in August by William Faulkner (79, 81, 82, 83, 85, 95, 99, 03, 06)
The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman (85, 90, 10)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (08)
Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill (90, 03, 07)
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe (10)
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (77, 78, 82, 86, 00, 03, 07)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding (85, 08)
The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh (89)
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich (95)
“Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot (85)
Lysistrata by Aristophanes (87)
M
Macbeth by William Shakespeare (83, 99, 03, 05, 09)
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (80, 85, 04, 05, 06, 09, 10)
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (87, 09)
Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw (79, 96, 04, 07, 09)
Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw (81)
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (03, 06)
Master Harold...and the Boys by Athol Fugard (03, 08, 09)
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy (94, 99, 00, 02, 07, 10)
M. Butterfly by David Henry Wang (95)
Medea by Euripides (82, 92, 95, 01, 03)
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers (97, 08)
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards (09)
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (85, 91, 95, 02, 03)
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (78, 89)
Middlemarch by George Eliot (95, 04, 05, 07)
Middle Passage by V. S. Naipaul (06)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare (06)
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (90, 92, 04)
The Misanthrope by Moliere (2008)
Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West (89)
Moby Dick by Herman Melville (76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 89, 94, 96, 01, 03, 04, 05,
06, 07, 09)
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (76, 77, 86, 87, 95, 09)
Monkey Bridge by Lan Cao (00, 03)
The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie (07)
Mother Courage and Her Children by Berthold Brecht (85, 87, 06)
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (94, 97, 04, 05, 07)
Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw (87, 90, 95, 02, 09)
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare (97)
Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot (76, 80, 85, 95, 07)
“My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning (85)
My Antonia by Willa Cather (03, 08, 10)
My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok (03)
N
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (09, 10)
Native Son by Richard Wright (79, 82, 85, 87, 95, 01, 04, 09)
Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee (99, 03, 07, 08)
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (09, 10)
1984 by George Orwell (87, 94, 09)
No Exit by John Paul Sartre (86)
No-No Boy by John Okada (95)
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevski (89)
O
Obasan by Joy Kogawa (94, 95, 04, 05, 06, 07)
The Octopus by Frank Norris (09)
The Odyssey by Homer (86, 06)
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles (77, 85, 88, 00, 03, 04)
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (01)
Old School by Tobias Wolff (08)
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (09)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (05)
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (89, 04)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey (01)
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather (06)
The Optimist’s Daughter by D. H. Lawrence (94)
The Orestia by Aeschylus (90)
Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (04)
Othello by William Shakespeare (79, 85, 88, 92, 95, 03, 04, 07)
The Other by Thomas Tryon (10)
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (90)
Our Town by Thornton Wilder (86, 97, 09)
Out of Africa by Isaak Dinesen (06)
P
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (01)
Pamela by Samuel Richardson (86)
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster (77, 78, 88, 91, 92, 07, 09)
Paradise Lost by John Milton (85, 86, 10)
Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen (06)
Père Goriot by Honore de Balzac (02)
Persuasion by Jane Austen (90, 05, 07)
Phaedre by Jean Racine (92, 03)
The Piano Lesson by August Wilson (96, 99, 07, 08, 10)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (02)
The Plague by Albert Camus (02, 09)
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov (97)
Pocho by Jose Antonio Villareal (02, 08)
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (10)
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (88, 92, 96, 03, 05, 07)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (76, 77, 80, 86, 88, 96,
99, 04, 05, 08, 09, 10)
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene (95)
Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall (96)
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (09)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (83, 88, 92, 97, 08)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (90, 08)
Push by Sapphire (07)
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (03, 05, 08)
R
Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow (03, 07)
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (87, 90, 94, 96, 99, 07, 09)
The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope (81)
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (08)
Redburn by Herman Melville (87)
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (00, 03)
Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie (08, 09)
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (07)
Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco (09)
Richard III by William Shakespeare (79)
A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean (08)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (10)
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (10)
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf (76)
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster (03)
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (90, 92, 97, 08)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard (81, 94, 00, 04, 05,
06, 10)
S
Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw (95)
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (77, 78, 83, 88, 91, 99, 02, 04,
05, 06)
Sent for You Yesterday by John E. Wideman (03)
A Separate Peace by John Knowles (82, 07)
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (97)
Silas Marner by George Eliot (02)
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (87, 02, 04, 09, 10)
Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (10)
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (91, 04)
Snow by Orhan Pamuk (09)
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson (00, 10)
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (81, 88, 96, 00, 04, 05, 06, 07, 10)
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence (77, 90)
Sophie's Choice by William Styron (09)
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (77, 86, 97, 01, 07, 08)
The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence (96, 04)
The Stranger by Albert Camus (79, 82, 86, 04)
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (91, 92, 01, 04, 07, 08, 09,
10)
The Street by Ann Petry (07)
Sula by Toni Morrison (92, 97, 02, 04, 07, 08, 10)
Surfacing by Margaret Atwood (05)
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (85, 91, 95, 96, 04, 05)
T
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (82, 91, 04, 08)
Tarftuffe by Moliere (87)
The Tempest by William Shakespeare (78, 96, 03, 05, 07, 10)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (82, 91, 03, 06, 07)
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zorah Neale Hurston (88, 90, 91, 96. 04, 05,
06, 07, 08, 10)
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (91, 97, 03, 09, 10)
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (04, 09)
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (06)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (08, 09)
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (77, 86, 88, 08)
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (90, 00, 06, 08)
The Trial by Franz Kafka (88, 89, 00)
Trifles by Susan Glaspell (00)
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne (86)
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (92, 94, 00, 02, 04, 08)
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (85, 94, 96)
Typical American by Gish Jen (02, 03, 05)
U
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (87, 09)
U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos (09)
V
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (06)
Victory by Joseph Conrad (83)
Volpone by Ben Jonson (83)
W
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (77, 85, 86, 89, 94, 01, 09)
The Warden by Anthony Trollope (96)
Washington Square by Henry James (90)
The Wasteland by T. S. Eliot (81)
Watch on the Rhine by Lillian Hellman (87)
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope (06)
We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates (07)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee (88, 94, 00, 04, 07)
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (89, 92, 05, 07, 08)
The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen (78)
Winter in the Blood by James Welch (95)
Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare (82, 89, 95, 06)
Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor (82, 89, 95, 09, 10)
Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston (91, 08)
The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor (09, 10)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (77, 78, 79, 83, 86, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92,
96, 97, 99, 01, 06, 07, 08, 10)
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The Zoo Story by Edward Albee (82, 01)
Zoot Suit by Luis Valdez (95)
Most Frequently Cited 1970-2010
23 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
18 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
16 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens;
15 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevski; Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte;
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
13 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain; Heart of Darkness by
Joseph Conrad;
12 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; King Lear by William Shakespeare;
11 Billy Budd by Herman Melville; Catch-22 by Joseph Heller; Portrait of the
Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce;
10 The Awakening by Kate Chopin; Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko; Light in
August by William Faulkne;
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Their Eyes Were Watching God by
Zorah Neale Hurston
9 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner; Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison;
8 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy; Antigone by Sophocles; Beloved by Toni
Morrison; Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya; Candide by Voltaire; The Color
Purple by Alice Walker; The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams;
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair; Native Son by Richard Wright; Othello by
William Shakespeare;
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams;
7 The Crucible by Arthur Miller; Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton;
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller; Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy; Lord
Jim by Joseph Conrad; Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert;
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster; A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine
Hansberry;
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard; Sula by Toni Morrison;
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
6 All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren; All the Pretty Horses by Cormac
McCarthy; A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen; An Enemy of the People by Henrik
Ibsen; Equus by Peter Shaffer;
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton; Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift; Hedda
Gabler by Henrik Ibsen; Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy; Moll Flanders
by Daniel Defoe;
Obasan by Joy Kogawa; Oedipus Rex by Sophocles; Portrait of a Lady by Henry
James;
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner; The Sun Also Rises by Ernest
Hemingway;
The Tempest by William Shakespeare; The Turn of the Screw by Henry James;
5 Bleak House by Charles Dickens; The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov;
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley;
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin; Hamlet by William Shakespeare;
Macbeth by William Shakespeare;
Medea by Euripides; The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare; Mrs.
Dalloway by Virginia Woolf;
Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw; Murder in the Cathedral by
T. S. Eliot;
The Piano Lesson by August Wilson; Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; Sister
Carrie by Theodore Dreiser;
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy; Things Fall Apart by Chinua
Achebe;
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee; Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean
Rhys; Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
Shakespeare - All Plays Total = 71
2 Anthony and Cleopatra
4 As You Like It
5 Hamlet
3 Henry IV, Parts I and II
1 Henry V
4 Julius Caesar
13 King Lear
5 Macbeth
5 Merchant of Venice
1 A Midsummer Night's Dream
1 Much Ado About Nothing
8 Othello
1 Richard III
4 Romeo and Juliet
6 The Tempest
3 Twelfth Night
4 Winter's Tale Classical Greek & Roman Literature = 27
1 The Aeneid by Virgil
8 Antigone by Sophocles
1 The Eumenides by Aeschylus
1 The Iliad by Homer
1 Lysistrata by Aristophanes
5 Medea by Euripides
3 The Odyssey by Homer
6 Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
1 The Orestia by Aeschylus
