Corvallis School District
Instructional Literature List ~
1999-2001
Grades 9 and 10
Agreements For Using Specific Literary Works
Teachers are asking for clarity around the novels and reading materials used for reading and literature instruction and assessment at the various grade levels. In response to the request from teachers, the following is a composite list of district-wide agreements around the use of designated instructional materials in the Language Arts program.
The agreed upon list of works is reserved for instructional and assessment use at the stated grade level. Teachers at other grade levels are to avoid direct instruction and sharing of the works which appear on the lists for grade levels beyond the ones they teach. Teachers may draw from lists for grades prior to their own, provided they consider the instructional validity and the need to avoid unnecessary repetition.
Final approval of these Literature Lists was given by the K-12 Principals and Instructional Facilitators in June of 1999. These literature lists will be updated every 2-3 years.
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Core Literature ~ Grades 9 and 10 |
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| Title |
Author |
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All the President’s Men |
Woodward, Bob |
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Antigone |
Sophocles |
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Bless Me, Ultima |
Anaya, Rudolfo A. |
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Beowulf |
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The Bride Price |
Weil, Grete |
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Canterbury Tales |
Chaucer, Geoffrey |
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Cry the Beloved Country |
Paton, Alan |
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Farenheit 451 |
Bradbury, Ray |
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A Gathering of Old Men |
Gaines, Ernest J. |
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The Good Earth |
Buck, Pearl |
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Guest of the Shiek |
Feinea |
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Hiroshima |
Hershey, John |
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The House on Mango Street |
Cisneros, Sandra |
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I Am Clay |
Potok, Chaim |
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Invisible Man |
Ellison, Ralph |
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The Joy Luck Club |
Tan, Amy |
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Julius Caesar |
Shakespeare, William |
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Kaffir Boy |
Mathabane, Mark |
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Lord of the Flies |
Golding, William |
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Monkey |
Moore, Rod |
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My Name is Asher Lev |
Potok, Chaim |
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Mythology |
Hamilton, Edith |
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Nectar in a Sieve |
Markandaya, Kamala |
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The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail |
Lawerence, Jerome |
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Obasan |
Kogawa, Joy |
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Of Mice and Men |
Steinbeck, John |
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch |
Solzhenitson, Alexander |
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Our Town |
Wilder, Thornton |
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The Outsiders |
Hinton, S. E. |
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The Pearl |
Steinbeck, John |
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Player Piano |
Vonnegut, Kurt |
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Ricochet River |
Cody, Robin |
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Romeo and Juliet |
Shakepeare, William |
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A Separate Peace |
Knowles, John |
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Siddharta |
Hesse, Hermann |
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Snow Falling on Cedars |
Guterson, David |
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Sound of Waves |
Mishima, Yukio |
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Spring Mood |
Lord, Bette |
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Talking Leaves: Contemporary Native American Short Stories |
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A Tale of Two Cities |
Dickens, Charles |
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Taming of the Shrew |
Shakespeare, William |
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That Was Then, This Is Now |
Hinton, S. E. |
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Things Fall Apart |
Achebe, Chinua |
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To Kill a Mockingbird |
Lee, Harper |
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Twelve Angry Men |
Rose, Reginald |
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When the Legends Die |
Borland, Hal |
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Winterdance |
Paulson, Gary |
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Voyage of a Summer Sujn |
Cody, Robin |
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Zenzele |
Maraire, J. Nozipo |