Name: Britneys T.

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Assessment 8: Annotated Reading List

GRADE 9 - ENGLISH AMERICAN LITERATURES

Title Summary
Beowulf It deals with events of the early 6th century and was
probably composed c. 700–750. It tells the story of the
Scandinavian hero Beowulf, who gains fame as a young
man by vanquishing the monster Grendel and Grendel's
mother; later, as an aging king, he kills a dragon but dies
soon after, honoured and lamented.
I know Why the Caged Bird Sings a protest poem that voices out the inequality between
and Poetry black and white Americans. It illustrates the oppression
of the Blacks in contrast with the freedom of the Whites
by Maya Angelou during Segregation in American history.
The Canterbury Tales In The Canterbury Tales, a group of pilgrims traveling to
Canterbury Cathedral compete in a storytelling contest.
by Geoffrey Chaucer This overarching plot, or frame, provides a reason for the
pilgrims to tell their stories, which reflect the concerns
sparked by the social upheavals of late medieval England.
Ozymandias a short poem of fourteen lines written by Percy Bysshe
Shelley. The concurrent theme of the poem is
by Percy Shelley that nothing remains intact and same forever in this
world. Even the brightest of metal, one day decays with
passage of time. The throne name of Egyptian King
Ramesses is Ozymandias.
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn The novel tells the story of Huckleberry Finn's escape
from his alcoholic and abusive father and Huck's
by Mark Twain adventurous journey down the Mississippi River together
with the runaway slave Jim.

Grade 11 - Contemporary literatures

Title Summary
Things Fall Apart the novel chronicles the life of Okonkwo, the leader of an
Igbo community, from the events leading up to his
by Chinua Achebe banishment from the community for accidentally killing a

A Walk in the Night and Other
Stories
by Alex La Guma
The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
Unsheltered
by Barbara Kingsolver
Like water for chocolate
by Laura Esquivel
clansman, through the seven years of his exile, to his
return, and it addresses a particular problem of emergent
Africa
The story in which the collection takes its name from, A
Walk in the Night, relates the story of a young man who
is overtaken by the oppression of apartheid as he walks
through the night to calm his nerves after being unjustly
fired by his white supervisor.
The story travels between Cross' infatuation with a girl
named Martha that he's in love with based on a single
date in college, the death of the soldier Ted Lavender,
and an itemized chronicle of what the men carried at war,
from supplies, to tokens of luck, to emotions.
A timely novel that interweaves past and present to
explore the human capacity for resiliency and
compassion in times of great upheaval.
The novel follows the story of a young woman named
Tita, who longs for her beloved, Pedro, but can never
have him because of her mother's upholding of the family
tradition: the youngest daughter cannot marry, but instead
must take care of her mother until she dies. Tita is only
able to express herself when she cooks.