PUSD Student Novel Pre-Survey

Your Thoughts on PUSD Novels

PUSD Student Survey
The Pleasanton Unified School District is seeking feedback from our current students and alumni. Your feedback will be taken into consideration when teachers review and select novel lists that will be taught in grades 6-12.

A major goal of ours is to select diverse texts that fully represent our student body (in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, class, age, ability, religion, place, immigration status or LGBTQ identity).

Please take about 5-10 minutes to share your feedback with us. Your feedback will be shared publicly as a summary.

About You:

While we do NOT ask for your name, we ask for this information to help us understand the unique perspectives of our student body.
A. Your current grade*
- Which 11th grade courses have you taken at PUSD?*
- Which 12th grade courses have you taken at PUSD?*
B. To which gender identity/identities do you most identify?*
Please list the gender identity that you most identify with, if it was not listed above.
C. To which race(s) do you most identify?*
Please list the race that you most identify with, if it was not listed above.

Thinking about novels you read at PUSD

A bit more reflection on your overall learning.
A. Thinking about the assigned novels that you felt DID NOT help you learn much, please share WHY you felt you did not learn much.
B. Thinking about the assigned novels that you felt DID help you learn a lot, please share an example of something you learned from reading.
C. If there are novels that we left off the list above that you read at PUSD, feel free to share additional thoughts about them here.
D. Are there any novels you would like to have read at PUSD, but weren’t given the opportunity? If so, which ones?

	Never assigned to me or really can not remember	Did not learn much	Learned a little	Learned a lot
Where the Red Fern Grows (Core)
The Cay
Boy of the Painted Cave
Maroo of the Winter Caves
The Reluctant God
The Greek Gods
Homesick: My Own Story
Tales of China
The Red Pony
Esperanza Rising

	Never assigned to me or really can not remember	Did not learn much	Learned a little	Learned a lot
The Pearl (Core)
Baseball in April and Other Short Stories
Julie of the Wolves
The Giver
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry
Journey to Topaz
Beowulf, A New Telling
The Samurai's Tale
Slake's Limbo
The Outsiders
Out of the Dust
Tangerine
Walk Two Moons
Tuck Everlasting

	Never assigned to me or really can not remember	Did not learn much	Learned a little	Learned a lot
The Call of the Wild (Core)
Harriet Tubman
Johnny Tremain
A Christmas Carol
Technical Communication, Writing Summaries, Writing Instructions, and Writing Technical Descriptions
Across Five Aprils
The Glory Field
Lupita Manana
The Pigman
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

	Never assigned to me or really can not remember	Did not learn much	Learned a little	Learned a lot
Of Mice and Men (Core)
The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet - Play in Anthology (Core)
The Odyssey - Excerpts in Anthology (Core)
Heroes, Gods, and Monsters of Greek Myths (Core)
Usborn's Illustrated Guide to Norse Myths and Legends (Core)
The Merchant of Venice
A Summer Life
The Odyssey (complete text)
The Old Man and the Sea
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Illustrated Man
The Bean Trees
The House on Mango Street

	Never assigned to me or really can not remember	Did not learn much	Learned a little	Learned a lot
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (Core)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Core)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Cyrano De Bergeracc
Black Boy
Bless Me, Ultima
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Night
Dawn
Great Expectations
Things Fall Apart
Emma

Your Thoughts on PUSD Novels

About You:

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Thinking about novels you read at PUSD

Thinking about novels you read most recently:

	Never assigned to me or really can not remember	Did not learn much	Learned a little	Learned a lot
The Crucible (Core)
The Great Gatsby (Core)
Civil Disobedience (excerpt from anthology)
The Scarlet Letter
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Grapes of Wrath
The Jungle
The Open Boat
The Red Badge of Courage
Long Day's Journey Into Night
The Glass Menagerie
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Sun Also Rises
Selections from Anthology, Elements of Literature - 5th Course
A Lesson Before Dying
The Catcher in the Rye
The Joy Luck Club
The Bell Jar
Their Eyes Were Watching God
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Farewell to Manzanar
Growing Up
A Separate Peace
The Invisible Man

	Never assigned to me or really can not remember	Did not learn much	Learned a little	Learned a lot
The Word Within the Word (Core)
The Compact Reader: Short Essays by Method and Theme (Core)
The Crucible (Core)
The Great Gatsby (Core)
Civil Disobedience (excerpt from anthology)
The Scarlet Letter
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Grapes of Wrath
The Jungle
The Open Boat
The Red Badge of Courage
Long Day's Journey Into Night
The Glass Menagerie
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Sun Also Rises
Selections from Anthology, Elements of Literature - 5th Course
A Lesson Before Dying
The Catcher in the Rye
The Joy Luck Club
The Bell Jar
Their Eyes Were Watching God
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Farewell to Manzanar
Growing Up
A Separate Peace
The Invisible Man
The Conscious Reader

	Never assigned to me or really can not remember	Did not learn much	Learned a little	Learned a lot
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Core)
Siddhartha (Core)
Tae Te Ching
The World's Religions

	Never assigned to me or really can not remember	Did not learn much	Learned a little	Learned a lot
Excerpts from the Illiad, Anthology (Core)
A Doll's House (Core)
The Illiad
The Inferno
The Tragedy of Hamlet
Othello
Henry IV, Part I
Frankenstein
Into Thin Air

	Never assigned to me or really can not remember	Did not learn much	Learned a little	Learned a lot
Beowulf (Core)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Core)
The Tragedy of Macbeth (in anthology) (Core)
The Hobbit
Le Morte D'Arthur
The Canterbury Tales

	Never assigned to me or really can not remember	Did not learn much	Learned a little	Learned a lot
Animal Farm (Core)
Grendel (Core)
The Rape of the Lock
Gullivar's Travels
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
A Shropshire Lad
Goblin Market
Brave New World
1984

	Never assigned to me or really can not remember	Did not learn much	Learned a little	Learned a lot
Vocabulary for College (Core)
The Practical Stylist (Core)
Angela's Ashes
The Perfect Storm
Warriors Don't Cry
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
College Essay
The Elements of Style
Lexington Reader
McGraw Hill Reader
Write for College
Steps to Writing Well

	Never assigned to me or really can not remember	Did not learn much	Learned a little	Learned a lot
Oedipus The King (Core)
Perrine's Sound and Sense (Core)
Shakesperaean Sonnets (Core)
The English Patient
Oedipus Cycle
A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literacy Theory
Summary of titles used on College Board AP Exams

	Never assigned to me or really can not remember	Did not learn much	Learned a little	Learned a lot
Working (Core)
Doublespeak (Core)
Fog City Fundamentals (Core)
School to Work (Core)

	Never assigned to me or really can not remember	Did not learn much	Learned a little	Learned a lot
Facing History and Ourselves: Holocaust and Human Behavior (Core)
The Sunflower (Core)
Kaffir Boy (Core)
A Gathering of Heroes: Reflections on Rage and Responsibility (Core)
Ceremony (Core)
Women Hollering Creek (Core)
The Joy Luck Club
The Kitchen God's Wife
Survival in Auschwitz
Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun
Invisible Man
I Promised I Would Tell
Brave New World
Master Harold and the Boys
Othello
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Fences
Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning
The Metamorphosis
Lord of the Flies
Red Scarf Girl
Tortilla Curtain
Hiroshima
Martin and Meditations on the South Valley
Drink Cultura: Chicanismo
No Exit
Steps to Writing Well 7th Edition

	Never assigned to me or really can not remember	Did not learn much	Learned a little	Learned a lot
Fiction (Core)
Poetry (Core)
Handbook of Poetic Terms
Stories by American Studies
Writing Better Fantasy
How to Build a Long-Lasting Fire
Writing Fiction
Reading and Writing Poetry with Teenagers
Beyond Roses are Read
Inkblots

	Never assigned to me or really can not remember	Did not learn much	Learned a little	Learned a lot
Reading Rhetorically (Core)
A Writer's Reference, 5th Ed. (Core)
Into the Wild (Core)
Sophie's Wild (Core)
Life and Death in Shanghai
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All American Meal
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
The Contemporary Reader, 8th Ed.