Required Texts


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  • Between the Lines 11 (Nelson English)

  • Communicate! (Nelson English)

  • Tutorials and Audio files
    • Course Resources: Tutorials, reading selections, templates, and charts needed to complete assignments; these resources are hyperlinked throughout the course
  • One of the following graphic novels:
    • How I Made it to Eighteen (Tracy White)
    • American Born Chinese (Gene Yang)
    • Essex County Book Two: Ghost Stories (Jeff Lemire)
  • One of the following novels:
    • Hole in My Life (Jack Gantos)
    • Forbidden City (William Bell)
    • Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
    • The Hate List (Jennifer Brown)
  • One of the following films:
    • It's Kind of a Funny Story
    • Finding Forrester
    • Catch Me if You Can
    • The Help
    • October Sky
    • The Invisible
    • Brokedown Palace
    • Rango