Suggested Texts

Poetry

• The History Teacher by Billy Collins

• Mr Z by Carl M Holman

• "Hope" is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson

• The Soul Selects Her Social Distance by Felicia Ackerman

• On Children by Kahlil Gibran

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

• On the Pulse of Morning by Maya Angelou

• Still I Rise by Maya Angelou

• Famous by Naomi Shihab Nye

• Gitanjali: Song Offerings (Where the mind is without fear...) by Rabindranath Tagore

• Onset by Robert Frost

• If by Rudyard Kipling

• Invictus by William Ernest Henley

Short Stories

• An Incident In The Ghobashi Household by Alifa Rifaat

• Dead Men’s Path by Chinua Achebe

• Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell

• The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant

• Gentleman of the Jungle by Jomo Kenyatta

• The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu

• Salvation by Langston Hughes

• The Stolen Party by Liliana Heker

• The Other by Paro Anand

• An Astrologer's Day by R.K. Narayan

• Malgudi Days (Leela's Friend, The Tiger's Claw, Father's Help) by R.K. Narayan

Articles

• What students are saying about remote learning by New York Times

Novel

• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

• The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown

• A Little Piece of Ground by Elizabeth Laird

• I am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai

• Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala

• Life of Pi by Yann Martel