freshman year: world literature

sophomore year: american literature

junior year: contemporary literature

senior year: ap literature and composition

• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Romantic Poetry
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • John Keats
  • William Wordsworth
• Sophocles works
  • Oedipus the King
  • Antigone
• Shakespeare works
  • various sonnets
  • Othello
  • Hamlet
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
• "Letter From Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr.
• "Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau
• Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Herman Melville works
  • "Bartleby, the Scrivener"
  • "Benito Cereno"
  • Billy Budd
• T.S. Eliot works
  • "The Hollow Men"
• Franz Kafka works
  • "In the Penal Colony"
  • "Before the Law"
  • "The Metamorphosis"
  • "A Hunger Artist"
  • "A Report to an Academy"
• "The Venus Hottentot" by Elizabeth Alexander
• A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
• "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz