Sophomore Honors Reading List

Quarter One

Theme -

• Honor and Betrayal

Central Question -

• Who deserves your loyalty?

Novel -

• Things Fall Apart - Achebe
• 1984 - Orwell

Drama -

• Othello - Shakespeare
• A Streetcar Named Desire- Williams

Short Stories:

• Barn Burning - Faulkner
• Guest of the Nation - O'Connor
• The Last Supper - Bible
• Cain and Abel - Bible

Poetry:

• Civilian and Soldier - Soyinka
• My Last Duchess - Browning

Essay:

• Shooting An Elephant - Orwell

Film:

• On The Waterfront - Kazan

Quarter Two

Theme -

Central Question -

Quarter Three

Theme -

• Resiliency and Despair

Central Question -

• Why do some make it, while others don't?

Novel:

• The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Kesey

Short Stories:

• In Another Country - Hemingway
• For Esme - With Love and Squalor - Salinger

Poetry

• When You Are Old - Yeats
• Grief - Barrett Browning
• The Widow's Lament in Springtime - Williams
• Edge - Plath
• Holy Sonnet 10 - Donne

Essays

• The Death of a Moth - Woolf

Film

• What's Eating Gilbert Grape - Hallstrom

Quarter Four

Theme -

• Faith and Doubt

Central Question -

• Why are we here?

Novels:

• Siddhartha - Hesse
• Night - Wiesel

Drama -

• Waiting For Godot - Beckett

Short Stories

• A Good Man is Hard to Find - O'Connor
• A Clean Well Lighted Place - Hemingway
• The Hunger Artist - Kafka
• The Story of Job - Bible
• The Good Samaritan - Bible
• The Brave Little Parrot - Buddhist Parable

Poetry -

• Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord, If I Contend - Hopkins
• Hap - Hardy
• When I have Fears That I Might Cease To Be - Keats
• There's A Certain Slant of Light - Dickinson

Essays -

• The Myth of Sisyphus - Camus

Film:

• Breathless - Godard