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Writing Program


A detailed review of the West Hills writing program for students and parents
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Freshman

  • Analytical Writing Training Unit
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell
  • Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  • Greek and Roman Mythology Unit
  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  • Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Sophomore

  • Black Boy by Richard Wright or Life is So Good by George Dawson
  • Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
  • The Tragedy of Julius Caeser or Macbeth by William Shakespeare
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Juniors

  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  • The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
  • The Crucible by Arthur Miller
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  • Optional: Rhetorical writing unit, including an excerpt from World House by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Seniors

  • Antigone by Jean Anouilh and Barbara Bray
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • Hamlet by William Shakespeare
  • Hitchcock Film Unit
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston