Core Novels List by Grade

2023-2024 Beckman High School Core Novels (by Grade)

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