A lot of my English classes back in seventh to tenth grade were bloated with grammar lessons and writing lessons, which was helpful, but I wanted more literature. Here's my revised curriculum (if I were to take matters into my own hands. I wanted to include one or two fiction/nonfiction works—ideally with one of them being from the West (or any other country) and the other being from the Philippines. I also want to read manga, as it's very easy to get more students to read.

For seventh grade students, it'll be 'The Little Prince' by Antoine de Saint-Exupery and 'The Summer Solstice' by Nick Joaquin for fiction, then 'Pretty Guardian: Sailor Moon' (Volumes 1-2 of the NT collection, or at least, the first arc) by Naoko Takeuchi for manga.

For eighth grade students, I'll keep the assigned book I had back then, which is 'Bitter Melon' by Cara Chow—or, I could substitute it with 'Perfect On Paper' by Sophie Gonzales. The other one is 'Dead Stars' by Paz Marquez Benitez. Manga would be 'A Silent Voice' by Yoshitoki Oima.

I'll keep the Shakespeare curriculum for ninth grade ('Macbeth' and 'Romeo and Juliet' for the plays, along with a few sonnets here and there), while having 'Armor' by John Bengan. Manga can be 'Frieren: Beyond Journey's End' by Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe, probably until the end of the Aura the Guillotine arc. Tenth grade will have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Harper Lee, as well as the memoir 'Some People Need Killing' by Patricia Evangelista. They'll also have 'I Hear The Sunspot' by Yuki Fumino for manga.