Literature & Language Arts

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Reading between the Lines

Grade 6

• Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
• Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
• Holes by Louis Sachar
• Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
• The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
• The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
• Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
• Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
• The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill

Enduring Authors

Grade 8

• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
• Short Stories and Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe
• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• White Fang by Jack London
• A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Building Language

Grade 8 or 9

• Basically Speaking: Language Arts Rudiments
• Going Steady: Conjugation and Agreement
• Have You Seen My Keys? Unlocking Sentences
• "Halt! Who Goes There?": Using Punctuation
• Step by Step: Writing as a Process -- Why Write?
• Where Do I Begin? Research Strategies
• I Need Your Support! The Art of the Paragraph
• To Whom It May Concern: Considering Audience
• The House of Style
• Construction Zone: Drafting and Revising
• The Power of Literature
• Story Time: Narrative Writing
• Expository Essays: Behind the Words
• Prove It: Persuasive Writing

American Literary Voices: Part 1

Grade 11 or 12

• The Colonial Era to 1789
• Quest for an "American Identity"
• Growing Pains
• Edgar Allan Poe: The Sad Life and Times
• Hawthorne and Melville
• The Emergence of American Poetry
• Tiny Brush Strokes: Local Colorists "Paint" America
• Luck, Pluck, and the American Dream
• Surmounting Cultural, Racial, and Gender Barriers
• The Evolution of Women's Spheres
• Interesting Incidentals
• The Early Moderns: Terror and Wonder in the 20th Century

American Literary Voices: Part 2

Grade 11 or 12

• The New Landscape: Americans Feel the Pain
• America -- Land of Opportunity?
• Truth or Dare: Taming the American West
• Poetry Beyond the Rhyme
• Literature in Exile: The Lost Generation
• Bearing Witness: The Harlem Renaissance
• The Stage Is Set -- American Drama Flourishes
• Let There Be Light: The South Awakens
• Innocent No More: Alienation in America
• The Diverse World of the Modern Short Story
• Total Request Live: "Pop" Lit -- Instant Hit
• Keeping It Real: African American Voices
• American Voices at the Millennium

From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf

Grade 11 or 12

• Ballads and Moor Monsters
• Renaissance, Reason, and Order
• Metaphysics and the Rising Middle Class: The 17th Century
• Satire, Sitcoms, Newspapers, and Novels
• Political and Social Revolution
• The Romantic Poets
• Reform and Earnestness
• Victorian Novelists
• Victorian Heroes and Heroines
• Into the 20th century

Shakespeare

Grade 8, 9, or 12

• Shakespeare's London
• The Renaissance Stage
• Politics and Power
• Reading Shakespeare
• Romeo and Juliet: What's Going On?
• Romeo and Juliet: Themes
• Use of Language and Speeches
• Romeo and Juliet in Performance and Study
• Hamlet: Structure and Background
• Hamlet: Themes and Imagery
• Hamlet: Character Studies
• Hamlet: Critical Scenes and Speeches

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