Goshen High School English Department

Independent Reading List: Grade 12, British Literature

Reading List

NOTE: Please select an independent reading text you have not previously read and which is outside of your teacher’s selections for class reading. You are responsible for obtaining your own copy of the book from any library, bookstore, or online source. To learn more about a selection, go to online summaries from, for example, Spark Notes or Wikipedia. 

Austen, Jane                                         Emma

Austen, Jane                                         Mansfield Park

Austen, Jane                                         Northanger Abbey

Austen, Jane                                         Persuasion

Austen, Jane                                         Pride and Prejudice

Austen, Jane                                         Sense and Sensibility

Beckett, Samuel                                   End Game

Beckett, Samuel                                   Happy Days

Beckett, Samuel                                   Krapp’s Last Tape

Beckett, Samuel                                   Waiting for Godot

Bronte, Charlotte                                  Jane Eyre

Bronte, Emily                                        Wuthering Heights

Chaucer, Geoffrey                                The Canterbury Tales

Conrad, Joseph                                    Heart of Darkness

Conrad, Joseph                                    Lord Jim

Defoe, Danielle                                   Moll Flanders**

Dickens, Charles                                  Bleak House

Dickens, Charles                                  Dombey and Son

Dickens, Charles                                  David Copperfield

Dickens, Charles                                  Great Expectations

Dickens, Charles                                  Hard Times

Dickens, Charles                                  Oliver Twist

Dickens, Charles                                  Tale of Two Cities

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan                       The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Eliot, George                                        Middlemarch

Eliot, George                                        The Mill on the Floss

Eliot, George                                        Silas Marner

Fielding, Henry                                     Tom Jones**

Forster, E.M.                                       A Passage to India

Forster, E.M.                                       A Room with a View

Goldsmith, Oliver                                  She Stoops to Conquer

Goldsmith, Oliver                                  The Vicar of Wakefield

Greene, Graham                                   The End of An Affair

Hardy, Thomas                                      Far from the Madding Crowd

Hardy, Thomas                                     Jude the Obscure

Hardy, Thomas                                     The Mayor of Casterbridge

Hardy, Thomas                                     The Return of the Native

Hardy, Thomas                                     Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Huxley, Aldous                                     Brave New World

Huxley, Aldous                                    Chrome Yellow

Huxley, Aldous                                    Point Counter Point

Joyce, James                                        The Dubliners

Joyce, James                                        A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James                                        Ulysses**

Kipling, Rudyard                                  The Jungle Book

Kipling, Rudyard                                  Just So Stories

Lawrence, D.H.                                    Lady Chatterley’s Lover**

Lawrence, D.H.                                    Sons and Lovers**

Lawrence, D.H.                                    The Rainbow**

Lawrence, D.H.                                    Women in Love**

Malory, Sir Thomas                              Le Morte d’Arthur

Marlowe, Christopher                           Doctor Faustus

Marlowe, Christopher                           The Jew of Malta

Marlowe, Christopher                           Tamburlaine

Mill, John Stuart                                   On Liberty

Milton, John                                         Paradise Lost

More, Sir Thomas                                Utopia

Orwell, George                                     1984

Scott, Sir Walter                                   Ivanhoe

Shakespeare, William                           Anthony and Cleopatra

Shakespeare, William                           Henry IV, Part I

Shakespeare, William                           Henry IV, Part II

Shakespeare, William                           A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Shakespeare, William                           Othello

Shakespeare, William                           Richard II

Shakespeare, William                           Richard III

Shaw, (George) Bernard                      Arms and the Man

Shaw, Bernard                                     Candida

Shaw, Bernard                                     Man and Superman

Shaw, Bernard                                     Major Barbara

Shaw, Bernard                                     Mrs. Warren’s Profession                  

Shaw, Bernard                                     Pygmalion

Shelley, Mary                                       Frankenstein

Stevenson, Robert Louis                       Treasure Island

Stoker, Bram                                        Dracula

Thackeray, William Makepeace            Vanity Fair

Waugh, Evelyn                                     Brideshead Revisited

Wells, H.G.                                          The Time Machine

Wells, H.G.                                          War of the Worlds

White, T.H.                                          The Once and Future King

Wilde, Oscar                                        The Importance of Being Earnest

Wilde, Oscar                                        The Portrait of Dorian Gray

Wollstonecraft, Mary                            Vindication of the Rights of Women

Woolf, Virginia                                     Mrs. Dalloway

Woolf, Virginia                                     Orlando

Woolf, Virginia                                     To the Lighthouse

Woolf, Virginia                                    A Room of One’s Own

Woolf, Virginia                                     The Waves

 **For mature readers; parental permission required.

Goal: Students will complete a creative project based on Shakespeare's drama Julius Caesar.

Objective:

1. Students will choose a creative project that will also be presented to the class.

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2.       1. Creative Project (Choose 1) Due March 12

a.       Song Project

                                                               i.      Create a soundtrack to Julius Caesar.

                                                             ii.      Two songs per act.  (This is a total of 10 songs)

                                                            iii.      Present to the class the songs and your rationale as to why you chose those songs.

1.       Each rationale must be a TYPED paragraph (8-10 sentences) explaining HOW and WHY the song relates to the ideas of the given act.  Include a typed copy of the lyrics with this paragraph.

                                                           iv.      Physical Project: Cover illustration for your CD, track listing, Title and Artist/Composer must be listed, and the  music must be burned on the CD as we will listen to some of it in class.  I will keep the CD to listen to the other songs.

b.      Skit (Requires at least two students)

                                                               i.      With your partner/group, you must all select a role and memorize all lines.  Your group must be prepared to practice together.  This means, all of your lines must be memorized by the due date.  You may have index cards with you during your group’s performance in case you need to GLANCE at them.  However, anyone who directly reads from the cards will receive a lower grade.  There will be two grades given: individual performance and group performance.  Lines must be evenly shared.

                                                             ii.      Your group must have some props.  Do not bring any dangerous weapons to school!  Thanks!

                                                            iii.      Costumes are mandatory. Boys, you may wear togas, but you must have pants on under them!  You will simply put your toga on over your school clothes! 

                                                           iv.      Remember, you are acting!  Each group must perform.  That means you should all be moving around on the stage, projecting your voice, using hand gestures (appropriate ones), and using some of the props!  You may choose to either perform in class or video tape outside the classroom.  After the groups perform in class, we will watch the video-taped performances in class!

c.       Parody Writing (Must be submitted to turnitin)

                                                               i.      Choose a person’s voice to explain the rationale for the funeral speech from the play: Brutus or Mark Antony.

1.       You will become Brutus or Mark Antony using someone else’s voice and explain your feelings and what you meant when you spoke at the funeral.

2.       You must use lines from the funeral speech.

3.       Research some parody examples on-line to get help writing your own parody.

                                                             ii.      Speech must be typed and submitted to turnitin.

1.       However, your speech to the class should not be read from the typed paper.  Create speech cards.

2.       Turn in the typed speech with Originality Report to me by the day of the presentations.