Cornwall Central High School

Department Chairperson: Jacques Ponsolle (Technology)

Staff:

• Usman Ahmed (Technology)
• Kevin Arduino (Business)
• Britney Richards (Business)
• Justin Swisher (Business)

Welcome to the CCHS English Web Pages! The department has worked to create links and materials that facilitate a successful learning experience for each student.

Look below and to the left to access extensive resources for students.  Should you have any questions or feedback, do not hesitate to contact us.

Jeanne Rose: English Department Chairperson

Staff:

• Alison Baisley
• Haley Cavanna-Fowler
• Meaghann Chyla
• Linda DeNardo
• Kelly Finn
• Erica Liebler
• Leonora Mercado
• Taylor Perugini
• Ashley Schebesta

Related Links

• http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/sites.htm

Literary Resources

• Literary Resources
• http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/

Guide to Grammar and Writing

• Dictionary
• http://www.landmark-project.com/citation_machine/cm.php

Use this link for creating citations for research papers

​​​​​​English 9 Book List

Welcome Parents!

Below, please find the entire reading list for the 9th grade curriculum, as well as clickable resources to provide you with further information about each text. The texts with an asterisk denote required readings. Should, after perusing the materials, you still have questions, you are welcome to contact either your child's teacher or the department chairperson.

Happy Reading!

*To Kill a Mockingbird- Lee

• Student Survival Guide

After the First Death - Cormier

• Common Sense Media Guide
• CMIS Literature Evaluation

Great Expectations - Dickens

• CUNY General Overview
• Teachervision Guide

Inherit The Wind - Lee & Lawrence

• Novelguide
• Gradesaver

Nine Stories - Salinger

• Hackwriters
• Library Thing

Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck

• Penguin
• Novel Guide

* Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare

• Theater History
• Bellmore-Merrik Study Guide

The Chosen - Potok

• La Sierra University
• Sparknotes

The Miracle Worker - Gibson

• Enotes
• Answers.com webpage

The Odyssey - Homer

• The Literature Network
• Mythweb

The Pearl - Steinbeck

• Teachervision
• Allreaders

The Three Musketeers - Dumas

• The Life of Alexandre Dumas, Classic Adventure Writer
• Guardian

*Speak - Anderson

• Speak: Original Edition – Laurie Halse Anderson
• 20 Years After 'Speak,' Laurie Halse Anderson Tells Her Own Story In 'Shout'

English 10 Book List

Welcome Earthlings!

Here are the novels read in the 10th grade curriculum. Click on the links for extensive information about each one. Any questions can be directed to either your child's teacher or the department chair.

Happy reading!

A Separate Peace - Knowles

• Bellmore-Merrick
• Novel Guide

All Quiet on the Western Front - Remarque

• Ezine Articles
• Shmoop

Anthem - Rand

• Ayn Rand Institute
• Biography
• Complete Text

Antigone - Sophocles

• Antigone in full context

Ethan Frome - Wharton

• Quotes
• Sparknotes

Macbeth - Shakespeare

• All About Shakespeare
• No Fear Shakespeare

Night - Wiesel

• Oprah has done it all!
• Bookrags

The Crucible - Miller

• Sparknotes
• Schmoop

The Good Earth - Buck

• What does Oprah have to say?
• What's so bad about the "Good Earth"?

The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck

• Understanding "The Grapes of Wrath"

The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald

• Cliffsnotes

The Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne

• Bartleby
• Gradesaver

English 11 Book List

Salutations, Life-Forms!

Here you will find the CCHS 11th grade reading list along with clickable links intended to provide you with in-depth information regarding each novel and further your understanding of said work. Any questions that you have are most welcome, and can be directed to either the department chair-person or your child's teacher.

Happy Understanding!

A Streetcar Named Desire - Williams

• Book Rags

Death of a Salesman - Miller

• Enotes

Henrik Ibsen

• The Dramatist
• Campus Nut
• A Doll's House
• Hedda Gabler

Mark Twain

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Awakening - Chopin

• Study Notes

The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger

• Levity
• Quote Me Holden
• SparkNotes

The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald

• Online Study Guide
• Educate Me

The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway

• Hemingway
• Breaking down the man... and the sea
• GradeSaver

The Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne

• Hawthorne in Salem
• Bartleby
• Online Lit
• Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter

Thornton Wilder

• Our Town
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey

William Shakespeare

• Julius Caesar

English 12 Book List

Welcome! Our Senior classes are designed as semester classes giving students more choice in their study. The course selection may or may not be literature based. Below you will find a list of texts that may be read this year depending on the course of study. Please contact the department chairperson or your child's teacher with further questions.

1984 - Orwell

• Info on Orwell
• Orwell's 1984

A Brave New World - Huxley

• A truly brave new world

A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens

• Who's Mark Twain
• What Two Cities?

Animal Farm - Orwell

• What does it all mean?
• Political Adventure

Anthem - Rand

• Ayn Rand share some insight with me
• About the Anthem

Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky

• A genius?
• Cruel and unusual punishment

Cyrano de Bergerac - Rostand

• Begerac

Everyman - Anonymous

• Luminarium Everyman

Fences - Wilson

• Wilson Wilson Wilson
• What side of the fence are you on?

Gulliver's Travels (Four Voyages) - Swift

• The Victorian Web

Joseph Conrad

• The Secret Sharer
• Heart of Darkness

Murder in the Cathedral - Eliot

• Study guide
• History of murders

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Kesey

• Red House Books

Pygmalion - Shaw

• George Bernard Shaw Wiki

The Barretts of Wimpole Street - Besier

• Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Questia

The Handmaid's Tale - Atwood

• Sparky

The Oedipus Plays - Sophocles

• The Theban Plays
• Sophocles and his tragedies

The Rivals - Sheridan

• Spartacus

The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner

• Commentary

The Stranger - Camus

• Camus
• Grade Saver

Their Eyes Were Watching God - Hurston

• Woman of History

William Shakespeare

• About Billy
• As You Like It
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Hamlet
• King Lear
• Macbeth
• Othello
• The Merchant of Venice
• The Taming of the Shrew
• Twelfth Night

Wuthering Heights - Bronte

• The Magnanimity of Wuthering Heights
• Tall Quotes

Department Chairperson:  Hara-Ann Fiato

Staff:

• Suzan Brassard
• Gina Dianis

Department Chairperson: Olga Chernyak

Staff:

• Rosa Benedict
• Souade Jagninski
• Catherine Kelly
• Kristin LaRosa
• Kimberly Simchock

Below are some resource links:

• Word Reference
• Conjugation
• Reverso Dictionary

Department Chairperson: Stephen Cerbino 

Staff:

• Christine Dolan
• John Hines
• Eric Holzapple
• Riley Keenan
• Cindy Klein
• Ashley Marquez
• Julie Palumbo
• Jacqueline Perry

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself.  The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.  ~ Leo Tolstoy

Department Chairperson: Anthony Ravinsky

• Click here for the department page

Staff: 

• Kevin Franca
• Jake Hoover

Department Chairperson: Lori O'Neill

• Ryan Baldock
• David Feuer
• Michael Kroemer
• Chris Robinson
• Brianne Tesseyman

Department Chairperson: Brian Goodwin

• Maureenn Clayton
• Joshua Hubbard
• Sean Mayer
• Veronica O'Donnell
• Christina Panio
• Linda Parrella
• Allison Romano
• Kelly Romero
• James Wiley
• Danny Zayas 

Related Links

• NYS Regents Reference Tables

Department Chairperson: Chris Miller

• Jennifer Butler
• Lauren Byassee
• Micah Medvedev
• Michele Moroney
• Jessica Nielson
• Jacqueline Spencer
• Nicholas Whelly
• Cameron Whitton

Related Links

• EyeWitness to History
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