Common Core Standard Reading 11th Grade

It is strongly recommended that you read the texts  that you have not already read over the summer!  

TEXTS ILLUSTRATING THE COMPLEXITY, QUALITY, AND RANGE OF STUDENT READING 

"Close Reading" of these texts will help you become "college and career ready". 

“Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats (1820)

 • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë(1848) 

• “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson (1890)

 • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

 • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston(1937) 

• A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (1959)

 • The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (2003)

• Common Sense by Thomas Paine (1776) 

• WaldenbyHenryDavidThoreau(1854) 

• “Society and Solitude” by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1857) 

• “The Fallacy of Success” by G. K. Chesterton (1909)

 • BlackBoybyRichardWright(1945) 

• “Politics and the English Language” by George Orwell (1946)

 • “Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry” by Rudolfo Anaya (1995)

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