Thursday, September 21, 2023

Independent Reading Fiction and Nonfiction 10th Grade Homeschool

  1.  The Odyssey, Homer - 
  2. Macbeth, Shakespeare - 
  3. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain -
  4.  Poetry (Dickinson, Whitman, Frost, Hughes) - 
  5. The House on Mango Street, Cisneros - 
  6. A Lesson Before Dying, Gaines - 
  7. Something Wicked This Way Comes, Bradbury - 
  8. The Secret Life of Bees, Kidd - 
  9. All the Light We Cannot See, Doerr -
  10.  News of the World, Jiles - 
  11. When the Emperor Was Divine, Otsuka - 
  12. Boys in the Boat, Brown - 
  13. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Alvarez - 
  14. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou - 
  15. Leaving Home (anthology), Rochman & McCampbell -
  16.  Ethan Frome, Wharton - 
  17. The Crucible, Miller - 
  18. United States in Literature (reader), Miller, Dwyer & Wood - 
  19. The Glass Menagerie, Williams - 
  20. Points of View (collection), Moffett & McElheny - 
  21. Into the Wild, Krakauer 

An American Experience: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain paired with a contemporary text -
 An Epic Journey: The Odyssey, by Homer -
 Hubris, Ambition and Tragedy: Macbeth, by William Shakespeare - 
Distinct American Poetic Voices - Selected poetry by Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Langston Hughes 

The Odyssey, Homer



Ethan Frome, Wharton 




Into the Wild -  In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson McCandless came to die.



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