Sew happily ever after Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 Looking for my eighth grader. Am wanting it to possibly count for part of high school credit. Not looking for anthologies, just a list of must read lit for grade 8/9. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3andme Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 Here's a list of some of the standards of American Literature. Not all of them would be appropriate for an 8th grader however. Twain, Mark - Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer or Conn. Yankee London, Jack - Call of the Wild or White Fang Hawthorne, Nathaniel - Scarlet Letter or House of Seven Gables Crane, Stephen - Red Badge of Courage Melville, Herman - Moby Dick or Billy Budd Hemingway, Ernest - Old Man and the Sea Irving, Washington - Rip Van Winkle or Legend of Sleepy Hollow Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby Franklin, Benjamin - Autobiography Douglass, Fredererick - Narrative of the Life of a Slave Thurber,James - Secret Life of Walter Mitty Henry, O. - Ransom of Red Chief Poe, Edgar Allen - Any of his Tales Cooper, James Fenimore - Last of the Mohicans or The Pioneers Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin Cather, Willa - My Antonia Knowles, John - A Separate Peace Wharton, Edith - Ethan Frome Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451 Steinbeck, John - Of Mice and Men or The Pearl Lowry,Lois - The Giver Potok, Chaim - The Chosen Salinger, JD - The Catcher in the Rye Hurston, Nora Zeale - Their Eyes Were Watching God Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man Cormier, Robert - The Chocolate War Sinclair, Upton - The Jungle Miller, Arthur - The Crucible or Death of a Salesman Thoreau - Walden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HollyDay Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 I'd also add American poetry to that list: Dickens Poe Frost Longfellow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sew happily ever after Posted December 20, 2012 Author Share Posted December 20, 2012 Thank you. Many of these were on my list as well. Also like the suggestion/reminder to ad poetry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roadrunner Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 Thomas Wolfe - Look Homeward Angel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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