Will CommonLit 360 include novels? What novels are included? Will the novels be provided?

CommonLit's 360 free, full-year curriculum is a vertically aligned curriculum designed with one complete novel unit per grade level in middle school and 11th and 12th grade will have more than one novel unit. Here are the novels included in each current grade level of CommonLit 360:

Middle School

6th Grade: The Giver (The page numbers in this unit are from the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 1993 edition of The Giver. ISBN: 978-0-544-33626-1)
7th Grade: Brown Girl Dreaming (The page numbers in this unit are from the Penguin Random House, 2016 Edition. ISBN: 978-0-14-751582-7)
8th Grade: Twelve Angry Men (The page numbers in this unit are from the Penguin Classics 2006 Edition of Twelve Angry Men. ISBN: 978-0-14-751582-7)

High School Edition 1.0

9th Grade: Animal Farm (ISBN: 978-0-451-52634-2)
10th Grade: Things Fall Apart (ISBN: 978-0-385-47454-2)
11th Grade: The Great Gatsby, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Ceremony, and The Crucible
- The Great Gatsby (ISBN: 978-1-9821-4948-2 Additionally, this novel is in the public domain and available free of charge from Project Gutenberg.)
- Their Eyes Were Watching God (ISBN: 978-0-06-112006-0)
- Ceremony (ISBN: 978-0-14-310491-9)
- The Crucible (ISBN: 978-0-14-243733-9)
- Just Mercy (ISBN: ISBN 978-0-14-243733-9)
12th Grade: Frankenstein, Othello, The Namesake, and The Stranger
- Frankenstein (ISBN: 978-0-141-43947-1)
- Othello (ISBN: 978-0-7434-7755-0)
- The Namesake (ISBN: 978-0-7434-7755-0)
- The Stranger (ISBN: 978-0-679-72020-1)

High School Edition 2.0

9th Grade Animal Farm
- Animal Farm (ISBN: 978-0-451-52634-2)
10th Grade Fahrenheit 451, A Raisin in the Sun
- Fahrenheit 451 (ISBN: 978-1-4516-7331-9)
- A Raisin in the Sun (ISBN: 10: 0679755330)

Please note: The novels themselves are not provided by CommonLit. The CommonLit 360 curriculum provides supplemental texts, activities, resources, and more to engage in the instruction of these novels.

To learn more about the CommonLit 360 Curriculum, view the full Scope & Sequence here. Have more questions? Reach out to help@commonlit.org.