2015-2016 10th Grade Pre-Ap English II
 

Lord of the Flies by William Golden –  Not Available  (ISBN: 978-0-399-50148-7)
a group of British boys stuck on an uninhabited island who try to govern themselves with disastrous results.

   Antigone by Sophocles –no purchase required, provided from class literature textbook
   Antigone is a tragedy by Sophocles written in or before 441 BC. It is the third of the three Theban plays but was the first written,          chronologically.

   The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare –no purchase required, provided from class literature textbook
   Presents the annotated text of Shakespeare's tragedy in which Cassius, fearing Julius Caesar's ambition, forms a conspiracy    among Roman republicans, including Caesar's trusted friend Brutus, to assassinate him on the Ides of March; and includes  scene-by-scene plot summaries, and other reference material.

   
  Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens –Available for $5 (ISBN:  0-553-21176-5)
  A coming of age story set in London, Paris and the French countryside at the time of The French Revolution.

East of Eden by John Steinbeck - Available for $18 (ISBN:  978-0-14-018639-0) 
Adam and Cathy have two sons, and in the wake of a tragedy, they will be left to fight out issues of moral choices, right and wrong, and love and hate in the sun-drenched Salinas Valley of California.