Grade 7 / Unit 1



Grade 7 / Unit 1

Introduction: Fiction and Nonfiction

Richard Peck What is Fiction and Nonfiction?

The Three Century Woman

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Context Clues: Unlock Meaning • Narrative Writing

Cynthia Rylant Papa’s Parrot

Jean Fritz mk

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Context Clues: Reread or Read Ahead to Confirm Meaning • Point of View

Annie Dillard from An American Childhood

Lucille Clifton The Luckiest Time of All

Comparing Literary Works: Comparing Fiction and Nonfiction

Ernesto Galarza from Barrio Boy

Ernest Hemingway A Day’s Wait

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Author’s Purpose: Recognizing Details • Setting

Ray Bradbury All Summer in a Day

Jane Yolen Suzy and Leah

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Use Background Information • Historical Context

Julia Alvarez My First Free Summer

Frank McCourt from Angela’s Ashes

Comparing Literary Works: Comparing Characters

James Thurber The Night the Bed Fell

Sherwood Anderson Stolen Day

Grade 8 / Unit 2

Introduction: Short Stories

Walter Dean Myers What is a Short Story?

The Treasure of Lemon Brown

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Make Predictions: Use Prior Knowledge • Plot

Joseph Bruchac Bear Boy

Rudyard Kipling Rikki-tikki-tavi

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Make Predictions: Read Ahead to Verify • Character

Karen Hesse from Letters from Rifka

Amy Tan Two Kinds from The Joy Luck Club

Comparing Literary Works: Comparing Idioms

Gary Soto Seventh Grade

Anna Quindlen Melting Pot

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Make Inferences: Recognize Details • Conflict

Joan Aiken The Third Wish

Piri Thomas Amigo Brothers

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Make Inferences: Read Ahead to Verify • Theme

Edward D. Hoch Zoo

Laurence Yep Ribbons

Comparing Literary Works: Comparing Irony

O. Henry After Twenty Years

Shinichi Hoshi He—y, Come on O—ut!

Grade 7 / Unit 3

Introduction: Types of Nonfiction

Richard Muhlberger What is Nonfiction?

What Makes a Rembrandt a Rembrandt?

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Main Idea: Adjust Your Reading Rate • Expository Essay

Robert Zimmerman Life Without Gravity

Nancy Masterson Sakamoto Conversational Ballgames

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Main Ideas: Make Connections (Between Key Points and

Supporting Details) • Reflective Essay

Chief Dan George I Am a Native of North America

Judith Ortiz Cofer Volar: To Fly

Comparing Literary Works: Comparing Biography and Autobiography

Barbara Eaglesham A Special Gift: The Legacy of “Snowflake” Bentley

Russell Baker No Gumption

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Fact and Opinion: Recognize Clues That Indicate an Opinion • Persuasive Essay

Barbara Jordan All Together Now

Louis L’Amour The Eternal Frontier

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Fact and Opinion: Use Resources to Check Facts • Word Choice and Diction

Geoffrey C. Ward The Real Story of a Cowboy’s Life

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Rattlesnake Hunt

Comparing Literary Works: Comparing Humor

Bailey White Alligator

Robert Service Cremation of Sam McGee

Grade 7 / Unit 4

Introduction: Poetry

Pat Mora What is Poetry?

Maestro

The Desert Is My Mother

El desierto es mi madre

Bailando

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Draw Conclusions: Asking Questions • Forms of Poetry

Poetry 1

Naomi Shihab Nye The Rider

William Jay Smith Seal

Buson Haiku

Poetry 2

Nikki Giovanni Winter

Mary Ellen Solt Forsythia

Matsuo Basho Haiku

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Draw Conclusions: Connecting the Details • Figurative Language

Poetry 3

Naomi Long Madgett Life

Wendy Rose Loo-Wit

Edna St. Vincent Millay The Courage That My Mother Had

Poetry 4

Langston Hughes Mother to Son

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Village Blacksmith

Carl Sandburg Fog

Comparing Literary Works: Comparing Narrative Poems

Alfred Noyes The Highwayman

Gregory Djanikian How I Learned English

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Paraphrase: Read Aloud According to Punctuation • Sound Devices

Poetry 5

Shel Silverstein Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout

Would Not Take the Garbage Out

James Berry One

Eve Merriam Weather

Grade 7 / Unit 4 cont’d.

Poetry 6

William Shakespeare Full Fathom Five

Louise Bogan Train Tune

Eve Merriam Onomatopoeia

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Reread • Sound Devices

Poetry 7

Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee

Raymond R. Patterson Martin Luther King

Emily Dickinson I’m Nobody

Poetry 8

Lewis Carroll Father William

Robert Frost Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

Gwendolyn Brooks Jim

Comparing Literary Works: Comparing Imagery

Walt Whitman Miracles

E. E. Cummings in Just-

Grade 7 / Unit 5

Introduction: Drama

Laurence Yep What is Drama?

excerpt from Dragonwings

excerpt from Dragonwings

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Purpose for Reading: Preview a Text Before Reading • Dialogue

Israel Horovitz A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Morley Act I

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Purpose for Reading: Adjust Your Reading Rate • Stage Directions

Israel Horovitz A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Morley Act II

Comparing Literary Works: Comparing Characters

Israel Horovitz from A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Morley

Act I, Scene 2

Act I, Scene 5

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Summarize: Distinguish Between Important and Unimportant Details • Character’s Motives

Rod Serling The Monsters are Due on Maple Street

Comparing Literary Works: Comparing Dramatic Speeches

Arthur Miller from Grandpa and the Statue

Peg Kehret My Head is Full of Starshine

Grade 7 / Unit 6

Introduction: Themes in the Oral Tradition

Jon Scieszka What is Storytelling?

Grasshopper Logic

The Other Frog Prince

Duckbilled Platypus vs. BeefSnakStik®

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Cause and Effect: Ask Questions • Myth

Josephine Preston Peabody Icarus and Daedalus

Anne Terry White Demeter and Persephone

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Cause and Effect: Reread to Look for Connections • Legend and Fact

Jacqueline Dineen Tenochtitlan: Inside the Aztec Capital

Juliet Piggott Wood Popocatepetl and Ixtlaccihuatl

Comparing Literary Works: Comparing Universal Themes

Mary Pope Osborne The Voyage from Tales from the Odyssey

Samantha Larson To the Top of Everest

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Compare and Contrast: Use Prior Knowledge • Cultural Context

Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz

Sun and Moon in a Box

Zora Neale Hurston How the Snake Got Poison

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Compare and Contrast: Use a Venn Diagram • Folk Tale

Virginia Hamilton The People Could Fly

Harold Courlander All Stories are Anansi’s

Comparing Literary Works: Comparing Tone and Theme

William Cleary The Fox Outwits the Crow

Aesop The Fox and the Crow

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