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English 11

English 11

Welcome to English 11! In this course, we get to study some of my most favorite books and authors. Hooray!

*Please check the main page of this website for daily homework updates.

We'll look at:
  • Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian (as well as a lot of his other work...we'll be doing an author study)
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
  • Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried
  • William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
We'll do a lot of reading, writing and thinking. You will be able to use this blog and this page as a resource throughout the semester.

Some independent reading books, as suggested by past English 11 classes:

No Easy Day by Matt Bissonette
War by Sebastian Junger
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
Decoded by Jay Z
Shut Out by Kody Keplinger
Divergent by Veronica Roth
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
The Lake House by James Patterson
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous