Approved 2008-2009

English Reading List & Literary Terms

MACC and SWAC

Vickie Gillespie– Commissioner

325 East Buck Avenue

Rural Retreat, VA 24368

Phone: (School) 276-686-4234 (Home) 276-686-5723

Fax:276-686-4601 (Cell) 276-620-3316

Email: vgillespie@wythe.k12.va.us or TigerLily43@yahoo.com

The links on this page are ones I found on the Internet not necessarily the exact one given out  by MACC/SWAC coaches.

 

Novels

 

(Numbers in parentheses indicate number of years the work has been on the list.)

To Kill A Mockingbird

(1)

Harper Lee

Of Mice and Men

(1)

John Steinbeck

St. Dale

Lord of the Flies (SWAC only)

(2)

(2)

Sharyn McCrumb

William Golding

 

Their Eyes Were Watching God

(3)

Zora Neal Hurston

The Secret Life of Bees

(MACC only)

(3)

Sue Monk Kidd

The Bean Trees

(3)

Barbara Kingsolver

Frankenstein

(4)

Mary Shelly

The Pearl

(4)

John Steinbeck

Plays

 

 

This Is A Test

(1)

Stephen Gregg

Macbeth

(1)

William Shakespeare

Pygmalion

(2)

George Bernard Shaw

Death Knocks

(2)

Woody Allen

12 Angry Men

(3)

Reginald Rose

Death of a Salesman

(3)

Arthur Miller

Trifles

(4)

Susan Glaspell

Antigone

(4)

Sophocles

Nonfiction

 

 

Television: The Plug-In Drug

(1)

Marie Winn

Ch. 2 from What Wendell Wants

(2)

Jenny Lee

Campus Racism 101

(2)

Nikki Giovanni

From Coming of Age in Mississippi

(2)

Anne Moody

Excerpt From Into Thin Air

(3)

John Krakauer

Third World Driving

         Hints & Tips

(3)

P. J. O’Rourke

The Mullet Girls

(4)

Jill  McCorkle

Appalachian Values

(4)

Loyal Jones