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AR 6161.1
Selection and Evaluation of Instructional Materials

BP 6161.1
Selection and Evaluation of Instructional Materials

Alternative Core Literature Selection Process and Request Form
Parents and /legal guardians and students have the choice to request an alternative assignment when the content of core literature materials are in conflict with personal sensibilities and/ or values. Please complete the requested information on the Alternative Core Literature Selection Request Form. In the Title and Author of the Book section please list the novel that you find objectionable. Once the form is completed please return to your child’s English teacher.

Alternative Core Literature Selection Request Form

High School Core Literature Approval Form

Grade 9 - Choices and Challenges

Required

Required: defined as titles taught by all teachers at the grade and/or course level.

Listed on CDE's recommended literature list	Title Click on title for CDE Annotation	Author
Yes	Of Mice and Men	John Steinbeck
Yes	Romeo and Juliet	William Shakespeare
Yes	To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee

Extended - One of the following

Extended: defined as options for teachers to select and incorporate into classroom instruction.

Listed on CDE's recommended literature list	Title Click on title for CDE Annotation	Author
Yes	Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian	Sherman Alexie
Yes	Bean Trees	Barbara Kingsolver
Yes	Effect of Gamma Rays on...	Paul Zindel
Yes	House on Mango Street	Sandra Cisneros
Yes	Hunger Games	Suzanne Collins
Yes	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings*	Maya Angelou
Yes	Mythology	Edith Hamilton
Yes	Our Town	Thornton Wilder
No	Penelopiad	Margaret Atwood
Yes	Princess Bride	William Goldman
Yes	Odyssey	Homer
Yes	Tale of Two Cities	Charles Dickens

Alternative

Listed on CDE's recommended literature list	Title Click on title for CDE Annotation	Author
Yes	Bean Trees	Barbara Kingsolver

Grade 10 - Nature of Humanity

Required

Required: defined as titles taught by all teachers at the grade and/or course level.

Listed on CDE's recommended literature list	Title Click on title for CDE Annotation	Author
Yes	Antigone	Sophocles
Yes	Julius Caesar OR Macbeth	William Shakespeare
Yes	Lord of the Flies	William Golding

Extended - One of the following

Extended: defined as options for teachers to select and incorporate into classroom instruction.

Listed on CDE's recommended literature list	Title Click on title for CDE Annotation	Author
Yes	Bless Me Ultima*	Rudolfo Anaya
Yes	Bless the Beasts and the Children*	Glendon Swarthout
Yes	Cyrano de Bergerac	Edmund Rostand
Yes	Ender's Game	Orson Scott Card
Yes	Glass Castle	Jeanette Walls
Yes	Life of Pi	Yann Martel
No	Old Man and the Sea	Ernest Hemingway
No	Separate Peace	John Knowles
No	Skinwalkers	Tony Hillerman
Yes	Things Fall Apart	Chinua Achebe
Yes	Thousand Pieces of Gold	Ruthanne Lum McCunn
Yes	Twelve Angry Men	Reginald Rose

Alternative

Listed on CDE's recommended literature list	Title Click on title for CDE Annotation	Author
Yes	Things Fall Apart	Chinua Achebe

Grade 11 - Defining America

Required

Required: defined as titles taught by all teachers at the grade and/or course level.

Listed on CDE's recommended literature list	Title Click on title for CDE Annotation	Author
Yes	Crucible	Arthur Miller
Yes	Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald

Extended - Two of the following

Extended: defined as options for teachers to select and incorporate into classroom instruction.

Listed on CDE's recommended literature list	Title Click on title for CDE Annotation	Author
Yes	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain
Yes	Awakening	Kate Chopin
Yes	Bluest Eye*	Toni Morrison
Yes	Catcher in the Rye*	J.D. Salinger
Yes	Death of a Salesman	Arthur Miller
Yes	Glass Menagerie	Tennessee Williams
Yes	Grapes of Wrath	John Steinbeck
No	Inherit the Wind	Lawrence and Lee
Yes	Into the Wild	Jon Krakauer
No	Night Thoreau Spent in Jail	Lawrence and Lee
No	Raisin in the Sun	Lorraine Hansberry
Yes	The Road	Cormac McCarthy
Yes	Scarlet Letter	Nathaniel Hawthorne
Yes	Snow Falling on Cedars*	David Guterson
Yes	A Streetcar Named Desire	Tennessee Williams
Yes	Things They Carried	Tim O'Brien
No	Wild Truth	Carine McCandless

Alternative

Listed on CDE's recommended literature list	Title Click on title for CDE Annotation	Author
Yes	Grapes of Wrath	John Steinbeck

Grade 12 - The Individual and Society

Required

Required: defined as titles taught by all teachers at the grade and/or course level.

Listed on CDE's recommended literature list	Title Click on title for CDE Annotation	Author
Yes	Hamlet	William Shakespeare
Yes	1984 OR Brave New World	Orwell/Huxley

Extended - One of the following 19th Century works

Extended: defined as options for teachers to select and incorporate into classroom instruction.

Listed on CDE's recommended literature list	Title Click on title for CDE Annotation	Author
Yes	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Robert Louis Stevenson
Yes	Dracula	Bram Stoker
Yes	Frankenstein	Mary Shelley
Yes	Jane Eyre	Charlotte Bronte
Yes	Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen
Yes	Wuthering Heights	Emily Bronte

Extended - One of the following world literature works

Extended: defined as options for teachers to select and incorporate into classroom instruction.

Listed on CDE's recommended literature list	Title Click on title for CDE Annotation	Author
Yes	Childhood's End	Arthur Charles Clark
No	Eaters of the Dead	Michael Crichton
No	Forever King	Molly Cochran
No	Importance of Being Earnest	Oscar Wilde
Yes	The Kite Runner*	Khaled Hosseini
Yes	Persepolis	Marjane Satrapi
No	Pygmalion	George Bernard Shaw
No	Rosencratz and Guildenstern are Dead	Tom Stoppard
Yes	Stranger	Albert Camus
Yes	Waiting for Godot	Samuel Beckett
No	Wild	Cheryl Strayed
No	Yellow Birds	Kevin Powers

Alternative

Listed on CDE's recommended literature list	Title Click on title for CDE Annotation	Author
Yes	Wuthering Heights	Emily Bronte

AP and IB Literature

Listed on CDE's recommended literature list	Title Click on title for CDE Annotation	Author
Yes	1984	George Orwell
No	A Fine Balance	Rohinton Mistry
Yes	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain
Yes	Awakening	Kate Chopin
Yes	Candide	Francois Voltaire
Yes	Catch-22	Joseph Heller
Yes	Catcher in the Rye*	J.D. Salinger
Yes	Crime and Punishment	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Yes	Crucible	Arthur Miller
Yes	Death of a Salesman	Arthur Miller
No	Fugitive Pieces	Anne Michaels
Yes	Grapes of Wrath	John Steinbeck
Yes	Hamlet	William Shakespeare
Yes	Heart of Darkness	Joseph Conrad
Yes	Into the Wild	Jon Krakauer
Yes	Jane Eyre	Charlotte Bronte
Yes	Jump and Other Short Stories	Nadine Gordimer
Yes	The Kite Runner*	Khaled Hosseini
No	Night Thoreau Spent In Jail	Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
No	Pedro Paramo	Juan Rulfo
Yes	Persepolis	Marjane Satrapi
Yes	Poetry Selections	Eavan Boland
Yes	Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen
Yes	The Road	Cormac McCarthy
Yes	Scarlet Letter	Nathaniel Hawthorne
Yes	Stranger	Albert Camus
Yes	Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald
Yes	Things They Carried	Tim O'Brien
Yes	Handmaid's Tale	Margaret Atwood

Per Board Policy/Administrative Regulation 6161.1 – Selection and Evaluation of Instructional Materials

Core literature titles selected for use by teachers or students that are identified as "published for an adult readership and thus contains mature content" by the October 2017 Department of Education (CDE) Recommended Literature List annotation (posted on October 2017 but since modified), shall have an asterisk placed by the book and include the following statement in the teacher's syllabus:

*This book was published for an adult readership and thus contains mature content. Before handing the text to a child, educators and parents should read the book and know the child.