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Core Novels List by Grade

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2024-2025 Beckman High School Core Novels (by Grade)

**PLEASE NOTE: While most grade levels have committed to the following books, curriculum is at each teacher's discretion, so titles are subject to change.***

Freshman Honors

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare (Folger Shakespeare Library)

Freshman CP

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Animal Farm - George Orwell

Sophomore Honors

Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka (Bantam Classic publication)
Macbeth - William Shakespeare (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Migrations - Charlotte McConaghy

Sophomore CP

The House in the Cerulean Sea - TK Klune
Lord of the Flies - William Golding

Junior Honors

The Crucible - Arthur Miller
Narrative of a Slave – Frederick Douglass
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Twelve Angry Men - Reginald Rose

Junior CP

The Crucible – Arthur Miller
Narrative of a Slave – Frederick Douglass
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Senior English Literature AP

The Awakening - Kate Chopin (Prestwick House)
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin (Prestwick House)
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (Prestwick House)
The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
King Lear - William Shakespeare (Folger Shakespeare Library)

Senior English ERWC

1984 - George Orwell