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GRADES 6?12

Core Thematic Units & StudySync Library

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Thematic Units

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Grade 6

AUTHOR

UNIT 1 | Turning Points: What happens when life changes direction? Hatchet Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books Island of the Blue Dolphins Dragonwings "The Father of Chinese Aviation" I Never Had It Made Warriors Don't Cry The Story of My Life "Eleven" The Pigman "The Road Not Taken"

Gary Paulsen Gary Paulsen Scott O'Dell Lawrence Yep Rebecca Maksel Jackie Robinson Melba Pattillo Beals Helen Keller Sandra Cisneros Paul Zindel Robert Frost

GENRE

StudySyncTV

Novel

x

Memoir

Novel

Novel

Magazine Article

Autobiography

Autobiography

Autobiography

x

Short Story

x

Novel

Poem

x

UNIT 2 | Ancient Realms: How does history inform and inspire us?

Hatshepsut: His Majesty, Herself

Catherine M. Andronik

Informational

Book of the Dead

Funerary Text

Book of Exodus

Religious Text

x

A Short Walk Around the Pyramids & Through the World of Art

Philip M. Isaacson

Informational

Aesop's Fables

Aesop

Fable

x

The Lightning Thief

Rick Riordan

Novel

x

"Perseus"

Robert Hayden

Poem

Heroes Every Child Should Know: Perseus

Hamilton Wright Mabie

Mythology

Black Ships Before Troy

Rosemary Sutcliff

Novel

Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

Edith Hamilton

Informational

The Hero Schliemann: The Dreamer Who Dug for Troy

Laura Amy Schlitz

Informational

Grade 6

AUTHOR

UNIT 3 | Facing Challenges: When should we stand up for others and ourselves?

A Wrinkle in Time

Madeleine L'Engle

The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

Rod Serling

Red Scarf Girl

Ji-li Jiang

I Am An American: A True Story of Japanese Internment

Jerry Stanley

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Mildred D. Taylor

Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp Jerry Stanley

The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child

Francisco Jimenez

Les Miserables "Jabberwocky" "Bullying in Schools"

Victor Hugo Lewis Carroll

GENRE

StudySyncTV

Novel

x

Drama

Memoir

Informational

Novel

x

Informational

Autobiographical Stories

Novel

x

Poem

x

Pro/Con Op-Ed

UNIT 4 | Our Heroes: What does it mean to be a hero?

Rosa Parks: My Story

Rosa Parks

Memoir

x

The Story Behind the Bus

The Henry Ford Museum

Informational

"Rosa"

Rita Dove

Poem

Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Russell Freedman

Informational

x

Sunrise Over Fallujah

Walter Dean Myers

Novel

An American Plague

Jim Murphy

Informational

Celebrities as Heroes

Pro/Con Op-Ed

The Education of George Washington: How a Forgotten Book Shaped the Character of a Hero

Austin Washington

Informational

Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery Eleanor Roosevelt and Marian Anderson My Father Is a Simple Man

Russell Freedman

Informational

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Library Informational

Luis Omar Salinas

Poem

x

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Grade 7

UNIT 1 | In Pursuit: What drives us to undertake a mission? Barrio Boy The Other Side of the Sky "The Song of Wandering Aengus" The Hobbit Call of the Klondike "King of Mazy May" "The Cremation of Sam McGee" New Directions Travels with Charley "Apollo 13 Mission Highlights" "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" Call of the Wild

AUTHOR

GENRE

StudySyncTV

Ernesto Galarza

Autobiography

Farah Ahmedi

Memoir

William Butler Yeats

Poem

x

J. R. R. Tolkien

Novel

x

David Meissner and Kim Richardson

Informational

Jack London

Short Story

Robert W. Service

Poem

x

Maya Angelou

Biographical Essay

John Steinbeck

Informational

x

NASA Kennedy Space Center Informational

Rudyard Kipling

Short Story

x

Jack London

Novel

UNIT 2 | The Powers that Be: What should be the principles of a just society?

Gladiator "The Lottery" The Giver The Wise Old Woman Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea Feed The Hunger Games Words We Live By: An Annotated Guide to the Constitution "I, Too, Sing America" "Reality TV and Society"

Richard Watkins

Informational

Shirley Jackson

Short Story

x

Lois Lowry

Novel

x

Yoshiko Uchida

Folktale

Barbara Demick

Informational

M.T. Anderson

Novel

Suzanne Collins

Novel

x

Linda Monk

Informational

x

Langston Hughes

Poem

Pro/Con Op-Ed

Grade 7

AUTHOR

GENRE

UNIT 3 | Justice Served: Why is it essential to defend human rights? Mother Jones: Fierce Fighter for Workers' Rights "Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward" Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy About Cesar "Elegy on the Death of Cesar Chavez" Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad The People Could Fly "Keynote Address at Democratic National Convention" "The New Colossus" "Eulogy for Gandhi" Long Walk to Freedom

Judith Pinkerton Josephson Gwendolyn Brooks Albert Marrin Cesar Chavez Foundation Rudolfo Anaya Ann Petry Virginia Hamilton Barbara Jordan Emma Lazarus Jawaharlal Nehru Nelson Mandela

Informational Poem Informational Informational Poem Biography Folk Tale Speech Poem Eulogy Autobiography

StudySyncTV x x x

UNIT 4 | Getting Along: What are the challenges of human interactions?

The Outsiders The Teacher Who Changed My Life The Miracle Worker The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (Act I, Scene V) "Amigo Brothers" "Thank You, Ma'am" Invasive Plant Inventory The Dangers of Social Media My Antonia Freak the Mighty The Ransom of Red Chief Oranges

S. E. Hinton

Novel

x

Nicholas Gage

Personal Essay

William Gibson

Drama

William Shakespeare

Drama

Piri Thomas

Short Story

Langston Hughes

Short Story

California Invasive Plant Council

Informational Text

x

Pro/Con Op-Ed

Willa Cather

Novel

Rodman Philbrick

Novel

x

O. Henry

Short Story

Gary Soto

Poem

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Grade 8

UNIT 1 | Suspense!: What attracts us to stories of suspense? "Let 'Em Play God" "The Monkey's Paw" Sorry, Wrong Number "Violence in Movies" A Night to Remember Cujo Lord of the Flies Ten Days in a Mad-House "The Tell-Tale Heart" "Annabel Lee" "The Bells"

AUTHOR

Alfred Hitchcock W.W. Jacobs Lucille Fletcher

Walter Lord Stephen King William Golding Nellie Bly Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe

GENRE

StudySyncTV

Essay

Short Story

x

Drama

x

Pro/Con Op-Ed

Informational

x

Novel

Novel

x

Informational

Short Story

x

Poem

Poem

UNIT 2 | In Time of War: What does our response to conflict say about us?

"Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat" The Diary of Anne Frank

Diary of Anne Frank: A Play

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Teaching History Through Fiction Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler's Shadow Parallel Journeys "Dear Miss Breed" "Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech" Remarks and Memories of Holocaust Victims

Winston Churchill

Speech

x

Anne Frank

Autobiography

x

Frances Goodrich and Albert

Hackett, Adapted by Wendy Historical Play

x

Kesselman

John Boyle

Novel

Pro/Con Op-Ed

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

History

x

Eleanor Ayer

Biographies

Joanne Oppenheimer

Letters

Elie Wiesel

Speech

x

Ban Ki-Moon

Speech

Grade 8

AUTHOR

UNIT 3 | A Moral Compass: How can life experiences shape our values?

"Abuela Invents the Zero" "Home" "A Celebration of Grandfathers" "Mother to Son" Little Women The Adventures of Tom Sawyer "Born Worker" "Ode to Thanks" "The Little Boy Lost / The Little Boy Found" "A Poison Tree" Mandatory Volunteer Work for Teenagers

Judith Ortiz Cofer Anton Chekhov Rudolfo Anaya Langston Hughes Louisa May Alcott Mark Twain Gary Soto Pablo Neruda William Blake William Blake

GENRE

StudySyncTV

Short Story

Short Story

Essay

Poem

Novel

x

Novel

x

Short Story

x

Poem

Poem

x

Poem

Pro/Con Op-Ed

UNIT 4 | The Civil War: How did the War Between the States redefine America?

"A House Divided"

Abraham Lincoln

Speech

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave

Frederick Douglass

Autobiography

x

Across Five Aprils

Irene Hunt

Novel

"Paul Revere's Ride"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem

x

"Speech to the Ohio Women's Conference: And Ain't I a Woman"

Sojourner Truth

Speech

x

Sullivan Ballou Letter

Sullivan Ballou

Letter

Civil War Journal

Louisa May Alcott

Journal

The Red Badge of Courage

Stephen Crane

Novel

x

Gettysburg Address

Abraham Lincoln

Speech

x

Chasing Lincoln's Killer

James Swanson

Informational

"O Captain, My Captain"

Walt Whitman

Poem

x

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Grade 9

AUTHOR

UNIT 1 | Empathy: How does human compassion inform our understanding of the world?

"Marigolds" To Kill a Mockingbird The Jungle "Lift Every Voice and Sing" "Statement on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr." Harvest Gypsies Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California The Grapes of Wrath "Tuesday Siesta" Living to Tell the Tale The Elephant Man "Mending Wall"

Eugenia Collier Harper Lee Upton Sinclair James Weldon Johnson Robert F. Kennedy John Steinbeck Kevin Starr John Steinbeck Gabriel Garcia Marquez Gabriel Garcia Marquez Bernard Pomerance Robert Frost

GENRE

StudySyncTV

Short Story

Novel

x

Novel

x

Poem

Speech

x

Informational

Informational

Novel

x

Short Story

Autiobiography

Drama

Poem

UNIT 2 | Leadership: What are the responsibilities of power?

"The Lady, or the Tiger?" "Ozymandias" "Thanksgiving Proclamation" "Washington's Farewell Address" 1984 In the Time of the Butterflies Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History The Odyssey The Odyssey "Pericles' Funeral Oration" "Mandatory Military Service in America" "Four Freedoms Inaugural Address"

Frank Stockton

Short Story

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poem

x

George Washington

Proclamation

George Washington

Letter

George Orwell

Novel

x

Julia Alvarez

Novel

x

Sarah Pomeroy, et. al.

Informational

Homer

Epic

x

Gareth Hinds

Graphic Novel

Thucydides

Speech

Pro/Con Op-Ed

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Speech

x

Grade 9

AUTHOR

UNIT 3 | Dreams and Aspirations: What makes a dream worth pursuing?

"The Necklace" Of Mice and Men "Sympathy" I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings The Joy Luck Club Only Daughter The Voice That Challenged a Nation "After Being Convicted of Voting in the 1872 Presidential Election" Letter to the Editor: Susan B. Anthony United States v. Susan B. Anthony: Justice Ward Hunt's Court Ruling "We Choose to Go to the Moon"

Guy de Maupassant John Steinbeck Paul Laurence Dunbar Maya Angelou Amy Tan Sandra Cisneros Russell Freedman Susan B. Anthony New York Times Justice Ward Hunt John F. Kennedy

GENRE

StudySyncTV

Short Story

Novel

x

Poem

Autobiography

x

Novel

Memoir

Informational

Essay

Editorial

Court Opinion

Speech

x

UNIT 4 | All for Love: How are we affected by the power of love?

"The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet"

Arthur Brooke

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare

"The Raven"

Edgar Allan Poe

Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romance

Helen Fisher

"Gift of the Magi"

O. Henry

"Romantic Love: Reality or Myth?"

West Side Story

Arthur Laurents

Angela's Ashes

Frank McCourt

Frank McCourt, Whose Irish Childhood Illuminated His Prose, Is Dead at 78 New York Times

`Angela's Ashes' Author Frank McCourt Dies at 78

PBS

"Sonnet 73"

Shakespeare

Poem

Drama

x

Poem

x

Informational

Short Story

x

Pro/Con Op-Ed

Script

Memoir

Obituary

Video & Transcript

Sonnet

x

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Grade 10

AUTHOR

UNIT 1 | Destiny: How much of what happens do we actually control? The Sports Gene Outliers Into the Wild "Invictus" "If" Macbeth The Iraq War Blog Oedipus Rex "Introduction to Oedipus Rex" "Fate slew Him, but He did not drop" "Luck is not chance"

David Epstein Malcolm Gladwell Jon Krakauer William Ernest Henley Rudyard Kipling Shakespeare Faiza al-Araji Sophocles Bernard Knox Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson

GENRE

Informational Informational Informational Poem Poem Drama Informational Drama Essay Poem Poem

StudySyncTV x x x

UNIT 2 | Taking a Stand: When is it appropriate to challenge the rules?

Candide

Voltaire

Novel

x

"Introduction to Antigone"

Bernard Knox

Essay

Antigone

Sophocles

Drama

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

Novel

x

The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia

Orlando Figes

Informational

Animal Farm

George Orwell

Novel

x

Speech to the Second Virginia Convention

Patrick Henry

Speech

x

"Ballad of Birmingham"

Dudley Randall

Poem

"Remarks to the Senate in Support of a Declaration of Conscience"

Margaret Chase Smith

Speech

x

Supreme Court Ruling: "Texas vs. Johnson 1989"

U.S. Supreme Court

Informational

"Impassioned Arguments Mark High Court Flag-Burning Decision"

Houston Chronicle

Article

"Burning the Flag"

Pro/Con Op-Ed

Grade 10

AUTHOR

UNIT 3 | Technical Difficulties: What responsibility do we have for what we create?

Prometheus: The Friend of Man Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus "Worship the Spirit of Criticism" The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Silent Spring A Civil Action Shading the Earth Einstein's Letter to the President "Counter-Attack" "Space Shuttle Challenger Tragedy: Address to the Nation" "Address to Students at Moscow State University" "De-Extinction: The Science and Ethics of Bringing Lost Species Back to Life"

Logan Marshall Mary Shelley Louis Pasteur Rebecca Skloot Rachel Carson Jonathan Harr Robert Kunzig Albert Einstein Siegfried Sassoon Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan

GENRE

StudySyncTV

Myth

Novel

x

Speech

x

Informational

x

Informational

Informational

Informational

x

Letter

x

Poem

Speech

Speech

x

Pro/Con Op-Ed

UNIT 4 | The Human Connection: How do our interactions define us?

Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene 2 Civil Peace The Book Thief Night Hotel Rwanda Dover Beach Catch the Moon An American Childhood Those Winter Sundays

Plutarch

Nonfiction

Shakespeare

Drama

Chinua Achebe

Short Story

Markus Zusak

Novel

x

Elie Wiesel

Novel

x

Kier Pearson and Terry George Script

Matthew Arnold

Poem

Judith Cofer Ortiz

Short Story

Annie Dillard

Memoir

Robert Hayden

Poem

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Grade 11

AUTHOR

UNIT 1 : 17th & 18th Century | We the People: What shaped America's early identity?

Of Plymouth Plantation The Scarlet Letter The Crucible The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano "On Being Brought from Africa to America" "On the Emigration to America and Peopling the Western Country" "Letters to John Adams" "The Crisis" The Whistle The Constitution of the Iroquois Nation Declaration of Independence Founding Documents of the United States of America The Federalist Papers: No. 10

William Bradford Nathaniel Hawthorne Arthur Miller Olaudah Equiano Phyllis Wheatley Philip Freneau Abigail Adams Thomas Paine Benjamin Franklin Dekanawida Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson, et. al. James Madison

GENRE

Informational Novel Drama Autobiography Poetry Poetry Letter Essay Letter Informational Manifesto Informational Essay

StudySyncTV x x

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UNIT 2: 19th Century | The Individual: How does one person find his or her place in society?

"Song of Myself" Walden Society and Solitude Adventures of Huckleberry Finn "Declaration of Sentiments by the Seneca Falls Convention" "The Story of an Hour" "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July" "Second Inaugural Address" Lee Surrenders to Grant, April 9th 1865 What They Fought For "The Cask of Amontillado" "Because I could not stop for Death"

Walt Whitman

Poetry

x

Henry David Thoreau

Nonfiction

x

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essay

x

Mark Twain

Novel

x

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, et. al. Manifesto

x

Kate Chopin

Short Story

x

Frederick Douglass

Speech

Abraham Lincoln

Speech

x

Horace Porter

Informational

x

James M. McPherson

Primary Sources

Edgar Allan Poe

Short Story

Emily Dickinson

Poetry

Grade 11

AUTHOR

UNIT 3: 20th Century | Modern Times: How was being American redefined in the 20th century?

The Great Gatsby "Theme for English B" "Any Human to Another" Plessy v. Ferguson Brown v. Board of Education A Farewell to Arms Hiroshima The Road The Woman Warrior Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica

F. Scott Fitzgerald Langston Hughes Countee Cullen U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Supreme Court Ernest Hemingway John Hersey Cormac McCarthy Maxine Hong Kingston Rudolfo Anaya Judith Cofer Ortiz

GENRE

Novel Poetry Poetry Informational Informational Novel Informational Novel Informational Informational Poetry

StudySyncTV x

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UNIT 4: Shakespeare | Seeking Romance: How can love inspire both folly and wisdom?

"Sonnet 116" "Sonnet 18" Metamorphoses Midsummer Night's Dream "Love Is Not All" "On Her Loving Two Equally" Cyrano de Bergerac "Dumped!" "What Is Love: Five Theories on the Greatest Emotion of All"

Shakespeare

Poetry

Shakespeare

Poetry

Ovid

Narrative Poem

x

Shakespeare

Drama

x

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Poetry

Aphra Behn

Poetry

Edmond Rostand

Novel

x

Helen Fisher

Science Article

The Guardian

Newspaper Article

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