Texts+Illustrating+the+Complexity,+Quality,+&+Range+of+Student+Reading+6-12

==Texts Illustrating the Complexity, Quality, & Range of Student Reading 6-12== (see Common Core Appendix B showing excerpts used from these texts)

__ **Grades 6-8** __

 * ==== Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1869) (L1300) ====
 * ==== The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (1876) (L 950) ====
 * ==== “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost (1915) ====
 * ==== //The Dark Is Rising// by Susan Cooper (1973) (L 920) ====
 * ==== //Dragonwings// by Laurence Yep (1975) (L 870) ====
 * ==== //Roll of Thunder//, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor (1976) (L 920) ====
 * ==== “Letter on Thomas Jefferson” by John Adams (1776) ====
 * ==== Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (1845) ====
 * ==== “Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: Address to Parliament on May 13th, 1940” by Winston Churchill (1940) ====
 * ==== //Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad// by Ann Petry (1955) (L 1000) ====
 * ==== //Travels with Charley: In Search of America// by John Steinbeck (1962) (L 1010) ====

__ **Grades 9-10** __

 * ==== The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1592) (L 1350) ====
 * ==== “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1817) ====
 * ==== “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe (1845) ====
 * ==== “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry (1906) ====
 * ==== //The Grapes of Wrath// by John Steinbeck (1939) (L 680) ====
 * ==== //Fahrenheit 451// by Ray Bradbury (1953) (L890) ====
 * ==== //The Killer Angels// by Michael Shaara (1975) (L 610) ====
 * ==== “Speech to the Second Virginia Convention” by Patrick Henry (1775) ====
 * ==== “Farewell Address” by George Washington (1796) ====
 * ==== “Gettysburg Address” by Abraham Lincoln (1863) ====
 * ==== “State of the Union Address” by Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1941) ====
 * ==== “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1964) ====
 * ==== “Hope, Despair and Memory” by Elie Wiesel (1997) ====

__ **Grades 11-12** __

 * ==== “Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats (1820) ====
 * ==== Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1848) (L 890) ====
 * ==== “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson (1890) ====
 * ==== The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) (L 1070) ====
 * ==== //Their Eyes Were Watching God// by Zora Neale Hurston (1937) (L 1080) ====
 * ==== //A Raisin in the Sun// by Lorraine Hansberry (1959) ====
 * ==== //The Namesake// by Jhumpa Lahiri (2003) (L 1210) ====
 * ==== Common Sense by Thomas Paine (1776) ====
 * ==== Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1854) (L 1420) ====
 * ==== “Society and Solitude” by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1857) ====
 * ==== “The Fallacy of Success” by G. K. Chesterton (1909) ====
 * ==== //Black Boy// by Richard Wright (1945) (L 950) ====
 * ==== “Politics and the English Language” by George Orwell (1946) ====
 * ==== “Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry” by Rudolfo Anaya (1995) ====