As a Freedom Fellow, students follow a rigorous reading curriculum to better prepare them for college literature courses and instill within them a love of great books.

First & Second Year

• Coming of Age in Mississippi (Anne Moody)
  ALREADY DONATED -- THANK YOU, RON & DEMETRIA HENDRIX!
• The Breadwinner (Deborah Ellis)
  ALREADY DONATED -- THANK YOU, ANONYMOUS!
• The Giver (Lois Lowry)
  ALREADY DONATED -- THANK YOU, CLAIBORNE BARKSDALE!
• The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros)
  ALREADY DONATED -- THANK YOU, ERICA SEAGER!
• Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
  ALREADY DONATED -- THANK YOU, ANONYMOUS!
• Jubilee (Margaret Walker)
  ALREADY DONATED -- THANK YOU, CHARLES PAYNE, FRANKY ABBOTT, ROBERT PORTER AND RUSSELL BARKSDALE!
• Animal Farm (George Orwell)
  ALREADY DONATED -- ANONYMOUS
• Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
  ALREADY DONATED -- THANK YOU, W. LEWIS PERDUE!
• Night (Elie Wiesel)
  ALREADY DONATED -- THANK YOU, W. LEWIS PERDUE!
• Things Fall Apart ( Chinua Achebe)
  ALREADY DONATED -- THANK YOU, WADE CHAMBERS, KENDALL COX, APRIL BROOKS, AND ELIZABETH MATERA!

Third & Fourth Year

• To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
  ALREADY DONATED -- THANK YOU, ANONYMOUS!
• A Raisin in the Sun (Lorraine Hansberry)
  ALREADY DONATED -- THANK YOU, ANONYMOUS!
• The Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
  ALREADY DONATED -- THANK YOU, TRACIE DAVIS, MELINDA MANNING, and NATHALIE BLACK!
• Oedipus Rex (Sophocles) -- ALREADY DONATED -- THANK YOU, CLAIBORNE BARKSDALE
• A Hope in the Unseen (Ron Suskind)
  ALREADY DONATED -- THANK YOU, JASON & NANCY DEPARLE!
• 1984 (George Orwell)
  FOUR BOOKS ALREADY DONATED -- THANK YOU, ANONYMOUS!
• Odyssey (Homer, translated by W.H.D.Rouse)
  ALREADY DONATED -- THANK YOU, ERICA SEAGER, the CHARLES E. SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL, and OPERATION UNDERSTANDING DC!
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
  ALREADY DONATED -- THANK YOU, ANONYMOUS!
• Extended Poetry Unit Coursepack

Fifth & Sixth year

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X
  ALREADY DONATED -- THANK YOU, ROBERT PORTER AND STEVE ESTES!
• Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
  ALREADY DONATED -- THANK YOU, ANONYMOUS!
• The Crucible (Arthur Miller)
  ALREADY DONATED -- THANK YOU, ANONYMOUS!
• Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
  ALREADY DONATED -- THANK YOU, ANONYMOUS
• All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
  ALREADY DONATED -- THANK YOU, ANTONIO TIGUE, the CHARLES E. SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL and OPERATION UNDERSTANDING DC!
• A Lesson Before Dying (Ernest Gaines)
• Cry, the Beloved Country (Alan Paton)
• MacBeth (William Shakespeare)
  ALREADY DONATED -- THANK YOU, VERONICA BROOKS, the CHARLES E. SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL and OPERATION UNDERSTANDING DC!