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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