7th Grade Prentice Hall Literature



List of selections expected to use in 2011 – 2012

7th Grade English

Most selections from Prentice Hall Literature: Penguin Edition

Unit 1 – Fiction and Nonfiction

“The Three-Century Woman: by Richard Peck

“Papa’s Parrot” by Cynthia Rylant

from An American Childhood by Annie Dillard

from Barrio Boy by Ernesto Galarza

“A Day’s Wait” by Ernest Hemingway

“All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury

“Was Tarzan a Three-Bandage Man?” by Bill Cosby

Unit 2 – Short Stories

“Rikki-tikki-tavi” by Rudyard Kipling

“The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers

“The Bear Boy” by Joseph Bruchac

from Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse

“Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto

“The Third Wish” by Joan Aiken

“Zoo” by Edward Hoch

“After Twenty Years” by O. Henry

“He-y, Come on O-ut” by Shinichi Hoshi

Unit 4 – Poetry

All selections in the textbook

Unit 5 – Drama

A Christmas Carol by Israel Horovitz (Charles Dickens)

The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street by Rod Serling

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Unit 6 – Themes in the Oral Tradition

Selections by Jon Scieszka

“Icarus and Daedalus” by Josephine Preston Peabody

“Demeter and Persephone” by Anne Terry White

“Perseus” by Alice Low

“Percy-Us Brings the Gawgon’s Head” by Lloyd Alexander

“Sun and Moon in a Box” by Alfonso Ortiz and Richard Erdoes

“The People Could Fly” by Virginia Hamilton

“All Stories Are Anansi’s” by Harold Courlander

“The Fox Outwits the Crow” by William Cleary

“The Fox and the Crow” by Aesop

Other fables and folk tales

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