Level 1
Stage 1 Units (Fiction)
Gaston William Saroyan (Orientation Unit)
The Old Man of the Sea Maeve Brennan
Through the Tunnel Doris Lessing
The Witch Who Came for the Weekend (from Juliet’s Story) William Trevor
Raymond’s Run Toni Cade Bambara
As the Night the Day Abioseh Nicol
Stage 2 Units (Fiction)
The Parsley Garden William Saroyan
The Veldt Ray Bradbury
A Likely Place Paula Fox
The Mountain Charles Mungoshi
Afternoon in Linen Shirley Jackson
The Mysteries of the Cabala Issac Bashevis Singer
Stage 2 Units (Nonfiction)
Rattlesnakes (from Our National Parks) John Muir (essay)
Throwing Snowballs (from An American Childhood) Annie Dillard (essay)
Poetry
Introduction to Poetry Billy Collins
[I’m Nobody! Who Are You?] Emily Dickinson
The Road Not Taken Robert Frost
This is Just to Say William Carlos Williams
Mushrooms Sylvia Plath
Table Edip Cansever
Level 2
Stage 1 Units (Fiction)
The White Umbrella Gish Jen (Orientation Unit)
Harrison Bergeron Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
The First Day Edward P. Jones
Props for Faith Ursula Hegi
El Diablo de La Cienega Geoffrey Becker
The Cat and the Coffee Drinkers Max Steele
Stage 2 Units (Fiction)
The Box House and the Snow Cristina Henríquez
Just Kept on Smiling Simon Burt
Mercedes Kane Elizabeth McCracken
Sandra Street Michael Anthony
Day of the Butterfly Alice Munro
The White Circle John Bell Clayton
Stage 2 Units (Nonfiction)
Wolf (from The Angry Winter) Loren Eisley (essay)
Colter’s Way Sebastian Junger (essay)
Poetry
Harlem Langston Hughes
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death William Butler Yeats
Untitled e.e. Cummings
The Fort Marie Howe
Bicycles Andrei Voznesensky
Snake D. H. Lawrence
Level 3
Stage 1 Units (Fiction)
The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse William Saroyan (Orientation Unit)
Sucker Carson McCullers
The Possibility of Evil Shirley Jackson
Superstitions Mary La Chappelle
Gryphon Charles Baxter
Fellowship Franz Kafka
Stage 2 Units (Fiction)
Approximations Mona Simpson
The Bet Anton Chekhov
The Secret Lion Alberto Alvaro Ríos
Star Food Ethan Canin
A Visit of Charity Eudora Welty
The Destructors Graham Greene
Stage 2 Units (Nonfiction)
I Have a Dream Martin Luther King (speech)
How it Feels to Be Colored Me Zora Neale Hurston (essay)
Poetry
The Hand Mary Ruefle
The Song of Wandering Aengus William Butler Yeats
Child on Top of a Greenhouse Theodore Roethke
The Parakeets Alberto Blanco
The Fish Elizabeth Bishop
Mending Wall Robert Frost
