Common Core Standards Initiative - Text Exemplars (Grades 11–CCR) lyrics

Stories Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. de Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote. Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Cask of Amontillado.” Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment. Jewett, Sarah Orne. “A White Heron.” Melville, Herman. Billy Budd, Sailor. Chekhov, Anton. “Home.” Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying. Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God Borges, Jorge Luis. “The Garden of Forking Paths.” Bellow, Saul. The Adventures of Augie March Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye Garcia, Cristina. Dreaming in Cuban Lahiri, Jhumpa. The Namesake Drama Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of Hamlet Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin. Tartuffe Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest Wilder, Thornton. Our Town: A Play in Three Acts Miller, Arthur. d**h of a Salesman Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun Soyinka, Wole. d**h and the King's Horseman: A Play Poetry Li Po. “A Poem of Changgan.” Donne, John. “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning.” Wheatley, Phyllis. “On Being Brought From Africa to America.” Keats, John. “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” Whitman, Walt. “Song of Myself.” Dickinson, Emily. “Because I Could Not Stop for d**h.” Tagore, Rabindranath. “Song VII.” Eliot, T. S. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” Pound, Ezra. “The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter.” Frost, Robert. “Mending Wall.” Neruda, Pablo. “Ode to My Suit.” Bishop, Elizabeth. “Sestina.” Ortiz Cofer, Judith. “The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica.” Dove, Rita. “Demeter's Prayer to Hades.” Collins, Billy. “Man Listening to Disc.”