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"The most hot-button of all curriculum topics in schools"

• Plays by Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Othello, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, and (via school trip) King Lear. Other plays: Oedipus Rex, She Stoops to Conquer, Hedda Gabler, The Glass Menagerie, and J.B.
• Poems, long: The Odyssey, Beowulf (excerpt; previously), Inferno (1 to 34), Paradise Lost (excerpt), The Rape of the Lock (excerpt), and Don Juan (excerpt). Poems, short: "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," "To a Mouse," "Ozymandias," "In a Station of the Metro," "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Fog," "To His Dead Body," "Dulce et decorum est," "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner," "The Red Wheelbarrow," "The Idea of Order at Key West," and "Leviathan."
• Fiction, long: The Red Badge of Courage, The Old Man and the Sea, Green Mansions, Madame Bovary (previously), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Arrowsmith, Look Homeward, Angel, Animal Farm, A Separate Peace, The Canterbury Tales (selections with encouragement to read more), Gulliver's Travels, Frankenstein (later changes), Pride and Prejudice, A Tale of Two Cities, Wuthering Heights (previously), Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Heart of Darkness, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Metamorphosis, and The Grapes of Wrath.
• Fiction, short: archy and mehitabel (selections), "The Open Boat," "Silent Snow, Secret Snow," "The Scarlet Ibis", "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "A Hunger Artist," "Araby," "The Lottery", "A Rose for Emily," "Young Goodman Brown," and "The Secret Sharer."
• Nonfiction: The Communist Manifesto and Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
• And incidentally, over in French class: Le Petit Prince, Douze Contes de Maupassant, "Rondeau de printemps" (previously), "Le Vase brisé," Huis clos, and (via school trips) The Imaginary Invalid and films such as Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire and Les Compères.