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Reading Selections For Grade 9

This document provides summaries for over 50 short stories, poems, speeches, and excerpts from longer works of literature spanning from ancient times to the 20th century. The works cover a wide range of genres and topics including epic poems, fables, songs, tragedies, odes, essays, addresses, novels, and teleplays. Many of the pieces are classics of English literature written by renowned authors.

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Reading Selections For Grade 9

This document provides summaries for over 50 short stories, poems, speeches, and excerpts from longer works of literature spanning from ancient times to the 20th century. The works cover a wide range of genres and topics including epic poems, fables, songs, tragedies, odes, essays, addresses, novels, and teleplays. Many of the pieces are classics of English literature written by renowned authors.

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Beowulf's Fight with Grendel

King Arthur Wins the Sword and Slays the Giant


Retold by Mary Macleod

Chantecleer and the Fox

Song to Celia by Ben JOnson

The Inevitable Day


An Excerpt from The Tragedy of Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes

On His Blindness by John Milton

Epigrams
Excerpts from Essay on Man and Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope

Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth

Elegy Written in a Country Chruchyard by Thomas Gray

Crossing the Bar by Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Shoemaker
An Excerpt from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Under the African Sun by Llewellyn Powys

Informational Text: "Literature in the 20th Century"

The Soldier by Rupert Brooke

The Express by Stephen Spender

The Quarrel by Eleanor Farjeon

Gift for the Darkness


An Excerpt from Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Captured by Opechancanough by John Smith

Song of the Sky Loom

The Whistle
from Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin

THe Wild Honeysuckle by Philip Freneau

Rip Van WInkle by Washington Irving

TO a Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant

The ROad not Taken by Robert Frost

Hiawatha's Wooing by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


The Hero of irad Pass by Virginia B. Licuanan

Dr. Heideggers Experiment" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Battle Hymn of the Republicby Julia Ward Howe

Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln

Informational Text: "Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address"

Come Up from the Fields, Father by Walth Whitman

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The Man with the Hoe by Edwin Markham

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Fresh Air Will Kill You by Art Buchwald

The Key by Mark Van Doren

Graduation
from the teleplay IKnow Why the Caged Bird Sings by Leonora Thuna and Maya Angelou

DOn not GO Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas

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