Common Core Standards Initiative - Text Exemplars (Grades 9-10) lyrics

Stories Homer. The Odyssey. Ovid. Metamorphoses. Gogol, Nikolai. “The Nose.” De Voltaire, F. A. M. Candide, Or The Optimist. Turgenev, Ivan. Fathers and Sons. Henry, O. “The Gift of the Magi.” Kafka, Franz. The Metamorphosis. Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451 . Olsen, Tillie. “I Stand Here Ironing.” Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. Lee, Harper. To k** A Mockingbird . Shaara, Michael. The k**er Angels. Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club. Álvarez, Julia. In the Time of the bu*terflies. Zusak, Marcus. The Book Thief. Drama Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of Macbeth. Ibsen, Henrik. A Doll's House. Williams, Tennessee. The Gla** Menagerie. Ionesco, Eugene. Rhinoceros. Fugard, Athol. “Master Harold”…and the boys. Poetry Shakespeare, William. “Sonnet 73.” Donne, John. “Song.” Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Ozymandias.” Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Raven.” Dickinson, Emily. “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark.” Houseman, A. E. “Loveliest of Trees.” Johnson, James Weldon. “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” Cullen, Countee. “Yet Do I Marvel.” Auden, Wystan Hugh. ”Musée des Beaux Arts.” Walker, Alice. “Women.” Baca, Jimmy Santiago. “I Am Offering This Poem to You.”