Language Arts/English Curriculum Frameworks - Albemarle County ...
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10 th -Grade Concept Requirements & Suggested Texts<br />
NOTE: Across the requirements, teachers must ensure that students read a variety of Eastern and<br />
Western literature.<br />
Concepts & Reading Requirements<br />
Universality: Honoring the Historical Past<br />
Change & Continuity: Cultural Context<br />
Requirement: All students will read an Eastern<br />
or a Western selection.<br />
Universality: Tolerance of the Atypical<br />
Requirement: All students will read a novel.<br />
Change & Continuity: Cultural Context<br />
Universality: Cooperation vs. Isolation<br />
Requirement: All students will read a text<br />
related to cultural revolutions.<br />
Teachers should select texts appropriate for their students.<br />
The following texts are currently under consideration by<br />
grade-level teachers across the division.<br />
Western<br />
• A Small Place (Kincaid)<br />
• Night (Wiesel)<br />
• A Passage to India (Forster)<br />
Eastern<br />
• The Good Earth (Buck)<br />
• Siddhartha (Hesse)<br />
• The Chosen (Potok)<br />
Western<br />
• To Kill A Mockingbird (Lee)<br />
• Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck)<br />
• Silas Marner (Eliot)<br />
• In the Time of the Butterflies (Alvarez)<br />
Eastern<br />
• Nectar in a Sieve (Markandaya)<br />
• A Single Shard (Park)<br />
Western<br />
• Things Fall Apart (Achebe)<br />
• Eva Luna (Allende)<br />
• The Metamorphosis (in world lit book)<br />
• A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)<br />
• Les Miserables (Hugo)<br />
• All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque)<br />
Eastern<br />
• So Far from the Bamboo Grove (Watkins)<br />
• China’s Son: Growing Up in the Cultural Revolution (Chen)<br />
• Beasts of No Nation (Iweala)<br />
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