ELA

Course themes and reading materials vary by grade level. Below are our course offerings:

English 9- The Search for Meaning

Text Options: Speak, The Hate U Give, Aristotle and Dante, Dear Martin. March, To Kill A Mockingbird, Romeo and Juliet

English 10- World Literature

Text Options: Oedipus the King, Things Fall Apart, Purple Hibiscus, American Born Chinese, Ms. Marvel, Long Way Down, Poet X, Night, In the Time of the Butterflies, Macbeth

English 11- American Literature

Text Options- Historical Documents, The Great Gatsby, Their Eyes are Watching God, Nickel and Dimed, A Lesson Before Dying, Catcher in the Rye, The Joy Luck Club, A Separate Peace, Into the Wild, Between the World and Me, The Crucible, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, All American Boys, Fahrenheit 451, Fences, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.

English 12- The Power of Change

Text Options- The Glass Castle, Outliers, Funny in Farsi, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night, Hamlet, Frankenstein, The Grace Year


Welcome to ELA

Department Chair: Lauren Hughes

Email: [email protected]

Knights Stay "In the Know"

Students in our Televideo course are responsible for creating reliable, engaging, and high-quality productions of the Knightly News, our daily morning announcements! Our current Knightly News channel can be found via our PHS TV Studio Youtube Channel. Broadcasts cover weather, school lunches, athletics, Parkville Pride, clubs/activities, student interests, and more. Check it out!

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