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Junior High Literature Curriculum 

Novels:

 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain

   

 Animal Farm, George Orwell 

    

 Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery

    

 The Black Arrow, Robert Louis Stevenson

    

 Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury 

  

 Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank

 Fellowship of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien

  

 Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

    

 Merchant of Venice , William Shakespeare 

   

 Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens 

    

 Out of the Silent Planet, C.S. Lewis 

  

 Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 

    

 The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane

   

 Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe 

    

 The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis


 A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens 

   

 Treasure Island , Robert Louis Stevenson

   

 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne

   

 Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe

   

 The Yearling, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

 

Saint Stories: 

 St. Athanasius, Mother Frances Forbes


 St. Benedict, Mary Fabyan Windeatt


 St. Edmund Campion, Harold C. Gardiner


 St. Ignatius, August Derleth


 Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, Evelyn M. Brown


 St. Maria Goretti, Fr. Godfrey Poage


 St. Maximilian Kolbe, Fr. Jeremiah J. Smith


 Blessed Miguel Pro, Ann Ball

 St. Paul the Apostle, Mary Fabyan Windeatt

 

 St. Teresa of Avila , Mother Frances Forbes


 Short Story Course:

 The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories, O. Henry

 

 The Ransom of Red Chief  O. Henry

The Last Leaf  O. Henry

  

 The Story of the Other Wise Man, Henry Van Dyke


 The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway 


 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,Washington Irving

   

 The Red Headed League, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

   

 The Devil and Daniel Webster, Stephen Vincent Benet

  

 A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

   

Poetry Course: 

 The Highwayman, Alfred Noyes

  

 Lochinvar, Sir Walter Scott

  

 The Wreck of the Hesperus, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

   

 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel T. Coleridge

   

 O Captain! My Captain, Walt Whitman

  

 Sea Fever, John Masefield

  

 Crossing the Bar, Alfred Lord Tennyson

  

 The Lonely Street, William Carlos Williams

 

School's Out, William Henry Davies

 

Daffodils, William Wordsworth

 

The Waterfall, Barbara Frances Lloyd 

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The Raven, Edgar Allen Poe 

   

The Naming of Cats, T.S. Eliot 

 

The Panther, Ogden Nash 

 

 If, Rudyard Kipling

  

 The Jabberwocky, Lewis Carroll

 

 God's Grandeur, Gerard Hopkins

    

 An Irish Airman Foresees His Death, W.B. Yeats

 

 Anthem to Doomed Youth, Wilfred Owen

 

 Charge of the Light Brigade, Alfred Lord Tennyson

  

 The Song of Hiawatha, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow