Grade 8 / Unit 1



Grade 8 / Unit 1

Introduction: Fiction and Nonfiction

Patricia C. McKissack What Are Fiction and Nonfiction?

Patricia C. McKissack and Frederick C. McKissack

from The Baker Heater League

Patricia C. McKissack The 11:59

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Make Predictions: Make and Support Predictions • Plot

Toni Cade Bambara Raymond’s Run

O. Henry A Retrieved Reformation

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Make Predictions: Read Ahead to Confirm or Modify Predictions • Conflict and Resolution

Juan A.A. Sedillo Gentleman of Rio en Medio

Mark Twain Cub Pilot on the Mississippi

Comparing Literary Works: Comparing Narrative Structure

Jesse Stuart Old Ben

Lensey Namioka Fox Hunt

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Author’s Purpose: Recognize Details Indicating Author’s Purpose • Mood

Annie Dillard from An American Childhood

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventure of the Speckled Band

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Author’s Purpose: Evaluate Whether the Author Achieves His or Her Purpose • Author’s Style

John Steinbeck from Travels with Charley

Martin Luther King, Jr. The American Dream

Comparing Literary Works: Comparing Characters of Different Eras

Paul Laurence Dunbar The Finish of Patsy Barnes

Ray Bradbury The Drummer Boy of Shiloh

Grade 8 / Unit 2

Introduction: Short Stories

Judith Ortiz Cofer What is a Short Story?

An Hour With Abuelo

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Compare and Contrast: Ask Questions to Compare and Contrast • Setting

Brian Wilson Aldiss Who Can Replace a Man?

Yoshiko Uchida Tears of Autumn

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Compare and Contrast: Compare Characters’ Perspectives • Character Traits

Naomi Shihab Nye Hamadi

Edgar Allan Poe The Tell-Tale Heart

Comparing Literary Works: Comparing Types of Narratives

Jack London Up the Slide

Gary Paulsen A Glow in the Dark from Woodsong

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Make Inferences: Use Details to Make Inferences • Point of View

Shirley Jackson Charles

Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Make Inferences: Identify Connections to Make Inferences • Theme

Langston Hughes Thank you, M’am

Saki (H.H. Munro) The Story-Teller

Comparing Literary Works: Symbols

Gish Jen The White Umbrella

Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve

The Medicine Bag

Grade 8 / Unit 3

Introduction: Types of Nonfiction

Andrew Mishkin What is Nonfiction?

Making Tracks on Mars

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Main Idea: Identify Implied Main Idea • Narrative Essay

Lionel G. Garcia Baseball

Ann Petry from Harriet Tubman: Conductor On the Underground Railroad

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Main Idea: Make Connections • Biography and Autobiography

Brent Ashabranner from Always to Remember: The Vision of Maya Ying Lin

Maya Angelou from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Comparing Literary Works: Types of Organization

Anais Nin Forest Fire

Diane Ackerman Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall

Mary C. Curtis The Season’s Curmudgeon Sees the Light

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Fact and Opinion: Use Clue Words to Distinguish Fact from Opinion • Persuasive Techniques

Robert MacNeil The Trouble With Television

Susan B. Anthony On Woman’s Right to Suffrage

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Fact and Opinion: Ask Questions to Evaluate Support • Word Choice

Colin Powell from Sharing in the American Dream

Isaac Asimov Science and the Sense of Wonder

Comparing Literary Works: Comparing Tone

Russell Freedman Emancipation from Lincoln: A Photobiography

Walter Dean Myers Brown vs. Board of Education

Grade 8 / Unit 4

Introduction: Poetry

Jacqueline Woodson What is Poetry?

Describe Somebody

Almost a Summer Sky

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Context Clues: Preview to Identify Unfamiliar Words • Sound Devices

Poetry Collection 1

Eleanor Farjeon Cat!

Walter de la Mare Silver

Georgia Douglas Johnson Your World

Poetry Collection 2

Nikki Giovanni The Drum (for Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson Ring Out, Wild Bells

Eve Merriam Thumbprint

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Context Clues: Reread and Read Ahead to Confirm Meaning • Figurative Language

Poetry Collection 3

Patricia Hubbell Concrete Mixers

Langston Hughes Harlem Night Song

Richard Garcia The City Is So Big

Poetry Collection 4

Elizabeth Bishop Little Exercise

Pablo Neruda Ode to Enchanted Light

Emily Dickinson The Sky is Low, the Clouds are Mean

Comparing Literary Works: Comparing Poetry and Prose

David Bottoms Snake on the Etowah

Bailey White Vanishing Species

(Grade 8, Unit 4 – cont’d)

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Paraphrase: Reread to Clarify Meaning • Forms of Poetry

Poetry Collection 5

Ricardo Sanchez Old Man

Robert Hayden Runagate Runagate

William Shakespeare Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind

Poetry Collection 6

Emily Lazarus The New Colossus

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Paul Revere’s Ride

Paul Laurence Dunbar Harriet Beecher Stowe

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Paraphrase: Read Aloud Fluently According to Punctuation • Imagery

Poetry Collection 7

John Updike January

N. Scott Momaday New World

Alice Walker For My Sister Molly Who in the Fifties

Poetry Collection 8

E. E. Cummings your little voice/Over the wires came leaping

Wendy Rose Drum Song

Amy Ling Grandma Ling

Comparing Literary Works: Comparing Types of Description

Robert Frost The Road Not Taken

Walt Whitman O Captain! My Captain!

Grade 8 / Unit 5

Introduction: Drama

Cherie Bennett What is Drama?

from Anne Frank & Me

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Draw Conclusions: Make Connections • Setting and Character

Neil Simon The Governess

Comparing Literary Works: Comparing Adaptations to Originals

Anton Chekhov The Ninny

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Cause and Effect: Use Background Information to Link Historical Causes with Effects • Dialogue

Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett

The Diary of Anne Frank, Act I

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Cause and Effect: Ask Questions to Analyze Cause-and-Effect Relationships • Character’s Motivation

Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett

The Diary of Anne Frank, Act II

Comparing Literary Works: comparing Sources with a Dramatization

Anne Frank from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

Miep Gies from Anne Frank Remembered

Grade 8 / Unit 6

Introduction: Themes in American Stories

Lan Samantha Chang What is Storytelling?

Water Names

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Summarize: Reread to identify Main Events or Ideas • Mythology

Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz

Coyote Steals the Sun and Moon

Zora Neale Hurtston Why the Waves Have Whitecaps

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Summarize: Use Graphics to Organize Main Events • Oral Tradition

Jackie Torrence Brer Possum’s Dilemma

Traditional John Henry

Rudolfo A. Anaya and Jose Griego y Maestas

Chicoria

Carl Sandburg from The People, Yes

Comparing Literary Works: Comparing Heroic Characters

Davy Crockett Davy Crockett’s Dream

Carl Sandburg Paul Bunyan of the North Woods

Stephen Vincent Benet Invocation from John Brown’s Body

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Purpose for Reading: Ask Questions to Set a Purpose for Reading • Cultural Context

Karen Hesse from Out of the Dust

Debts

Fields of Flashing Light

Migrants

Joseph Bruchac Ellis Island

Selection Choices

Focus on the Standards Purpose for Reading: Adjust Reading Rate According to Purpose • Author’s Influences

Alice Walker Choice: A Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.

Stephen Crane An Episode of War

Comparing Literary Works: Theme

Pablo Neruda Poetry (La Poesia)

Pat Mora from My Own True Name

Naomi Shihab Nye Words to Sit in, Like Chairs

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