Historical focus: History: America as world power, WWI, Russian Revolution, 20s to New Deal, WWII (Semester 2) (Program Guide compresses CK into 2nd Semester)

Literature Theme (theming begins in 7th grade)  – Transformation through journey; Touchstone – The monomyth: archetype and hero cycle (Program Guide)

• The Hobbit (Tolkien) – summer reading
• The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (R.L. Stevenson) 
• Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
• Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury)
• The Jungle Book, selections (Kipling)
• Animal Farm (Orwell)
• Romeo & Juliet (Shakespeare)
• Cyrano de Bergerac (Edmond Rostand)
• Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank), selections*
• “The Gift of the Magi” (O’Henry)
• “The Necklace” (Guy de Maupassant)
• “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” (James Thurber)
• “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “The Purloined Letter” (Edgar Allan Poe)
• “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
• “Araby” (James Joyce)
• “The Piece of String” (Guy De Maupassant)
• “My Oedipus Complex” (Frank O’Connor)