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Grade 8
Literary Elements
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Informative Writing 8
Flash Fiction 8 - Narrative Mode
Short Stories 8
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Short Story - Literary Elements/Terms
"The Sniper" by Liam O'Flaherty
"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury & Sara Teasdale
"Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut
"Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
Abstract Art - Stellar Student Samples!
Research 8
Novels 8
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"The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton
"The Giver" by Lois Lowry
"The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Non-Fiction 8
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"Choice: A Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr." by Alice Walker
"Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
Excerpt from "Out of the Dust" by Karen Hesse
Excerpt from "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
"The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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Teen Screen "Nicky's Family"
Holocaust Resources
Drama 8: "Twelve Angry Men" by Reginald Rose
Poetry 8
Vocabulary 8
Six Word Memoirs
Grade 7
Memoir Writing 7 - Narrative Mode
Myths, Legends, and Folk Tales
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"Daedalus and Icarus"
"Demeter and Persephone"
Short Stories 7
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"Rikki-tikki Tavi" by Rudyard Kipling
"Suzy and Leah" by Jane Yolen
"excerpt from Letters from Rifka" by Karen Hesse
"All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury
Novels 7
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"Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
"Letters from Rifka" by Karen Hesse
"Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbitt
Short Story Writing 7
Drama 7
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"The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" by Rod Serling
"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens
Non-Fiction 7
Poetry 7
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"Where I'm From" Poems
Research 7
Vocabulary 7
Independent Reading
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Writer's Notebook: Sacred Writing Time
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Bullying: Compassion Through Photography
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"Poetry is an emotion that has found its thought and the thought has found words" ~ Robert Frost
Check out Poetry 180 - a poem a day for students.
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Poetry 180: A Poem a Day