Communication Arts III and Advanced Placement III - Jrs

Click a book title to read a parent-written review of the book with regard to profanity, sex, violence and/or other adult content. Click a column heading to sort the list. All of the books on this list have been used by Blue Valley Communication Arts (English) teachers.

Each teacher typically chooses around 6 novels to teach in any given year which are supposed to pass through a textbook selection policy filter BEFORE they are assigned as compulsory reading. But many teachers assign "pet" novels that have NOT been properly filtered, or which were retroactively added to the "approved" list in June of 2004 or August of 2005.

The district's "approved booklist" was made available online in June 2004. Although a book may appear on this official "approved" list, it may NOT be age appropriate and may contain graphic content. For example, please click below on our review for Song of Solomon.

Time-tested and world-renowned classics NOT used in the Blue Valley curriculum.

Click a book title link to read a parent-written review. Click a column heading to sort the list.

P	S	O	None	A few times	Several times	Many times or explicit	NYR
Profanity (f-word, other obscenities)	Sexually explicit material	Other Adult content (drugs, occult, suicide, extreme violence, or other adult issues that parents should know about before their children are immersed in them.					Not Yet Rated

	Title	Author	Date "Approved" by district	Class	P	S	O
	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Twain, Mark	9/2000	11, 11AP	NYR
	All Over but the Shoutin'	Bragg	NOT approved	11
	All the Pretty Horses	McCarthy, Cormac PETITION BOOK	9/2000	11, 11AP
	An American Childhood		2005 Summer Reading NOT approved		NYR
	Awakening	Chopin, Kate PETITION BOOK	9/2000	11AP
	Black Boy	Wright, Richard PETITION BOOK	9/2000	11, 11AP
	Ceremony	Silko	West CA III Literature Circle NOT approved	11
	Crucible	Miller, Arthur	9/2000	11, 11AP	NYR
	Ella Minnow Pea	Dunn, Mark	2004 and 2005 Summer Reading Retroactively approved 8/2005	11
	Ethan Frome	Wharton, Edith	9/2000	11, 11AP	NYR
	Farewell to Arms	Hemingway, Ernest	9/2000	11, 11AP	NYR
	Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	9/2000	11, 11AP	NYR
	Great Gatsby	Fitzgerald, F. Scott	9/2000	11, 11AP	NYR
	Hunger of Memory	Rodriguez, Richard	2005 Summer Reading NOT approved	11
	Malcolm X	?	NOT approved	11	NYR
	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass	8/2005 We applaud this selection	Douglass, Frederick	11, 11AP
	Night Thoreau Spent in Jail	Lawrence, Jerome	9/2000	11, 11AP
	Raisin in the Sun	Hansberry, Lorraine	8/2005 We applaud this selection	11, 11AP
	Reading Lolita in Tehran	Nafisi, Azar	2005 Summer Reading NOT approved	11	NYR
	Red Badge of Courage	Crane, Stephen	9/2000	11AP	NYR
	Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne	9/2000	11AP	NYR
	Song of Solomon	Morrison, Toni PETITION BOOK CHALLENGED BOOK	9/2000	12AP
	Souls of Black Folk		2005 Summer Reading NOT approved	NYR
	Woman Warrior	Kingston, Maxine Hong	2005 Summer Reading NOT approved	11

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