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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