Texas reading Curriculum: Suggested reading list dropped
The new curriculum is passed today without the suggested reading list. Here are some of the books mentioned in the March 19 draft.
Star-Telegram.com: | 03/25/2008 | New curriculum plan for English includes suggested reading list
Suggested reading
Here are some of the books that the proposed curriculum says students should "consider" reading:
Kindergarten: The Ant and the Grasshopper;Jack and the Beanstalk
First grade: Works by Beatrix Potter; Mother Goose rhymes; Three Billy Goats Gruff
Second grade: Aesop’s fables; Cinderella; folk tales of the Brothers Grimm
Third grade: The Best Bad Thing by Yoshiko Uchida; Freckle Juice by Judy Blume; Greek and Roman myths
Fourth grade: The Brer Rabbit tales; Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White; Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder; Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Fifth grade: Escape From Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy by Andrea Warren; Little Women by Louisa May Alcott; Black Beauty by Anna Sewell; poems by Lewis Carroll, Ogden Nash and Shel Silverstein
Sixth grade: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table; poems by Langston Hughes and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Seventh grade: The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane; Casey at the Bat by Ernest Thayer; Our Town by Thornton Wilder; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain; The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe; The Diary of Anne Frank
Eighth grade: A Boy of Old Prague by Sulamith Ish-Kishor; No Turning Back: A Novel of South Africa by Beverley Naidoo; The Crucible by Arthur Miller; The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling;William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar;poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay
English I: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Robert Bolt’s A Man for All Seasons; Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun; J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye; Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird; Baroness Emmuska Orczy’s The Scarlet Pimpernel; Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species; poems by William Yeats and Pablo Neruda
English II: Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Homer’s The Odyssey; The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper; Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton; poems by e.e. cummings and Elizabeth Bishop
English III: Henry James’ The American; Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter; Jonathan Edwards’ sermonSinners in the Hands of an Angry God; The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan;The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner; poems by Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allen Poe; plays by Tennessee Williams, David Mamet and August Wilson
English IV: Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist; Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness; Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice; Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; poems by Robert Browning and A.E. Housman
Source: Texas Education Agency
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View the proposed English language arts and reading curriculum at www.tea.state.tx.us