“I am accustomed to consider literature as a search for knowledge.”  Italio Calvino

Each CHS student experiences core literature titles through intensive literature study at each grade level.  Sharing a common body of literature enriches students, creating a shared set of experiences in our literature community.  Teachers supplement the following core literature titles with both long and short texts such as additional novels, poems, essays and short stories.

C.P. Eng. I (9th grade)

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Odyssey by Homer

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

1984 by George Orwell

The Bible As/In Literature edited by James S. Ackerman

Black Boy by Rickard Wright

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

Macbeth or Othello by William Shakespeare

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass