Textbooks and Materials
Brook Knoll and Vine Hill Elementary Schools:
Grade | Subject | Textbooks and Instructional Materials |
K-5 | Science | FOSS (Full Option Science System) Kits; Mystery Science |
K-5 | History/Social Science | SAVVAS myWorld |
K-5 | Math | 2016 Pearson Investigations 3 |
K-5 | English | 2019 Heinemann Units of Study ELA |
Scotts Valley Middle School:
Scotts Valley High School:
| Textbooks and Instructional Materials Year of Adoption
| Most Recent Adoption? | % of Students Lacking Own Copy |
English/Language Arts | Adoption of approved CA Board of Education text, 2004-05. Prentice-Hall Publisher | Yes | 0% |
Mathematics | College Preparatory Materials (CPM) Adopted June 2017 | Yes | 0% |
Science | LabAids 2022 | Yes | 0% |
History-Social Science | 2019 Pearson |
| 0% |
Foreign Language | 2017, Autentico for Years 1 and 2 | Yes | 0% |
Health | Health Connected, 2017-18 | Yes | 0% |
Scotts Valley High School:
Subject | Textbooks and Instructional Materials Year of Adoption
| Most Recent Adoption? | % of Students Lacking Own Copy |
English/Language Arts | 2002 Prentice Hall Inc; McDougal-Littell Various novels (listed below) | Yes | 0% |
Mathematics | 2016 Houghton Mifflin; Oxford University Press; Haese & Harris, Cengage Learning, Mathematics Publishing, Big Ideas Learning | Yes | 0% |
Science | 2008 Glencoe; McGraw Hill; Holt Rinehart & Winston; Scotts Foresman & Addison Wesley; Prentice Hall. Adopted 2016 Oxford University Press; Pearson | Yes | 0% |
History-Social Science | 2019 McGraw Hill; 2006 Oxford University Press; Prentice Hall; Glencoe/McGraw Hill; Houghton Mifflin | Yes | 0% |
Foreign Language | 2017 Pearson Autentico Levels 1,2,3; Vista Higher Learning Imagina, Temas | Yes | 0% |
Health | 2002 Glencoe | Yes | 0% |
Visual and Performing Arts | 2002 WW Norton and Co; Glencoe/McGraw Hill; Pearson Education | Yes | 0% |
English I
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Romeo & Juliet - William Shakespeare
House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros
Edith Hamilton: Mythology
English II
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Ender's Game – Orson Scott Card
All Quiet on the Western Front (selections) – Erich Maria Remarque
The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
Night – Elie Wiesel
Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare
English III
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
The Language of Literature Text - McDougal Littell- 11th grade
Kurt Vonnegut short stories (no text)
Welcome to the Monkey's House - Kurt Vonnegut
English IV
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
The Last Lecture - Randy Pauch
Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Short stories: O'Conner, Gordimer, S. Jackson, K. Chopin (no specific text, but may reference Points of View)
Poetry: Sound and Sense
Honors English II
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Farming of Bones - Edwidge Danticat
Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare
11 IB/ YEAR 1
The Stranger - Albert Camus
Perfume - Patrick Suskind
The Visit - Friedrich Durrenmatt
Sorrow of War - Bao Ninh
Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
Macbeth - William Shakespeare
12 IB HL/ YEAR 2
Hamlet – William Shakespeare
1984 – George Orwell
Sound and Sense - (class set)
The Awakening – Kate Chopin
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
12 IB SL/ LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hamlet – William Shakespeare
1984 – George Orwell
Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
Sound and Sense - (class set)
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