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10 th -Grade Concept Requirements & Suggested Texts (continued)
Concepts & Reading Requirements
Universality: Search for Knowledge
Requirement: All students will read a variety of
legends, myths, and essays.
Systems: Genre: Shakespearean drama
Requirement: All students will read a
Shakespearean drama, with preference given
to one of the history plays.
Systems: Genre: poetry
Requirement: All students will read a variety
of poetic forms.
Communication: Author’s Purpose
Requirement: All students will read a piece of
social criticism.
Teachers should select texts appropriate for their students. The
following texts are currently under consideration by grade-level
teachers across the division.
Western
• The Sword and the Stone (White)
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (in Elements book)
• The Once and Future King (White)
• The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (Steinbeck)
• essays by Galileo Galilei (in world lit text)
Eastern
• Excerpts from The Thousand and One Nights (in world lit text)
• One Thousand and One Arabian Nights (McCaughrean)
• Excerpts from the Panchatantra (in world lit book)
• A Tiger for Malgudi (Narayan)
Western
• Henry IV, part I
• Richard II
• The Merry Wives of Windsor
• Othello
Western
• Sonnet
• Lyric
• Free Verse
Eastern
• Haiku
• The Book of Songs (in world lit book)
Western:
• Anthem (Rand)
• A Doll’s House (in world lit book)
• Dr. Faustus (in world lit book)
• The Stranger (Camus)
• Tartuffe (Moliere)
• Animal Farm (Orwell)
Eastern
• Treason by the Book (Spence)
• China’s Son: Growing up in the Cultural Revolution (Chen)
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