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NOVEL CHOICES GRADES 6 –12 OPEN A WORLD OF IDEAS Student Choice Engage students with novels that connect to their lives and experiences — that open doors, spark their imagination, and promote independent reading. With myPerspectives novel choices, you can: • Build a high-quality library for your classroom. • Select favorite authors and titles. • Encourage student choice. • Integrate novels easily into your classroom with Unit Aligned Novel recommendations and resources. Choose from 1000+ print novels, including Spanish titles, and hundreds of digital novels to enrich and extend learning. Diverse, Relevant, Contemporary, and Multicultural Novels pearsonschool.com/myPerspectives UNIT ALIGNED NOVELS Each unit in myPerspectives includes recommended novels and resources, that are aligned to the theme. See Pages 4–21 DIGITAL NOVELS 130+ eBooks are included with myPerspectives on Pearson Realize™. Also available are 200+ lesson plans with discussion questions and assessments. See Pages 22–25 PRINT NOVEL OPTIONS Choose from 1000+ English and Spanish titles to supplement your classroom library. English Titles, See Pages 26–44 Spanish Titles, See Pages 45–49 Spanish titles available 3 UNIT ALIGNED NOVELS Teaching with Trade Books offers even more options for you to customize myPerspectives. You may choose to replace an entire unit, integrate novels throughout a unit, or allow student choice for independent reading. Full support is available in the Teacher’s Edition. TEACHING WITH TRADE BOOKS UNIT 2: A Starry Home Integrating Trade Books with myPerspectives UNIT These titles provide students with another perspective on the topic 2 of what we might find in deep space, touching upon many of the A Starry Home ideas found within the unit selections. Suggestions Depending on your objectives for the unit, as well as your students’ needs, you may choose to integrate the trade book into the unit in for use several ways, including: • Supplement the unit Form literature circles and have the students read one of the trade books throughout the course of the unit as a supplement to the selections and activities. • Substitute for unit selections If you replace unit selections with a trade book, review the standards taught with those selections. Teacher Resources that provide practice with all standards are available. • Extend Independent Learning Extend the unit by replacing independent reading selections with one of these trade books. • Pacing However you choose to integrate trade books, the Pacing Guide below offers suggestions for aligning the trade books with this unit. Trade Book Lesson Plans AC_LIT17_TE07_U02_VOP.indd 3 23/11/18 10:03 PM Trade book lesson plans for Parasite Pig, Crater, and James and the Giant Peach are available online in myPerspectives+. Suggested Trade Books Pacing Guide: Unit Supplement Parasite Pig Crater James and the Giant William Sleator Homer Hickam Peach Introduce Lexile: 750 Lexile: 910 Whole-Class Roald Dahl Learning Stuck at boring afterschool job, Barney An orphan who works as a miner on the deals with aliens that no one except him moon must go on a perilous journey. Lexile: 870 Danger! This believes in. After a house-sized peach grows in his Media: Dark Mission to Mars Connection to yard, a young boy is swept up into a They Were, and Could Bore You fantastic adventure. Unit Introduction Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed Golden-Eyed to Death ConnectionPerformance toTask Essential Question Essential Question Moon miners’ lives are hard, but they Connection to Though destructive and bizarre, the aliens produce energy that Earth can’t do Essential Question 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 are16 wondrous.17 The18 book’s answer to without. In this novel, the answer to the the Essential Question: Should we make Essential Question: Should we make a The peach’s flight leads to both danger a home in space? depends on how the home in space? is largely positive, but and adventure as James take off into the reader views this tradeoff. it leaves some room for considering the ocean and eventuallySuggested into flight above TRADE BOOKS inequality it might spark. the earth. The travelers meet the Cloud- Parasite Pig: Pages 1–112 Men. The story explores the feasability of a life outside the normal,novels casting Crater: Pages 1–165 a surprising and fantastic light on the James and the Giant Peach: Chapters 1–20 Essential Question: Should we make a home in space? T42 LIT21_TE07_TN_U02_FM_TradeBooks.indd 42 08/02/19 7:40 PM Introduce Introduce Small-Group Independent Learning Learning Neil deGrasse Future of Space Media: Ellen Tyson on the Performance- Exploration Ochoa: Future of Performance Task Based Assessment Could See Director, U.S. Space Humans on Mars, Johnson Space Exploration Independent Alien Planets The Last Dog Center After Curiousity Learning 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 TRADE BOOKS TRADE BOOKS Parasite Pig: Pages 113–175 Parasite Pig: Pages 176–212 Crater: Pages 166–280 Crater: Pages 281–320 James and the Giant Peach: Chapters 21–34 James and the Giant Peach: Chapters 35–39 T43 LIT21_TE07_TN_U02_FM_TradeBooks.indd 43 08/02/19 7:40 PM 4 Reading Guide Templates are Suggested Novel Resources available for you to create your own! The Call of the Wild Jack London ABOUT THE AUTHOR A fearless adventurer, Jack London (1876–1916) grew up in Oakland, California. His family was poor, so when he was a child he delivered newspapers, worked on an ice wagon, and set up pins at a bowling alley. After London left school in eighth grade, he worked at a cannery. While a teenager, London joined the crew of a seal-hunting boat. He sailed to Hawaii, Siberia, and Japan. When he returned home, he worked in a power plant. In 1897, London joined the gold rush in the Yukon Territory of Canada. This is the setting for The Call of the Wild, which was published in 1903. After returning to California in 1898, London decided to earn a living as a writer. He published more than twenty novels, as well as plays, essays, and stories. BACKGROUND In The Call of the Wild, Jack London vividly captures his firsthand experiences in the Yukon Territory. In 1896, gold was discovered in the Klondike region of the Yukon. Soon, thousands of prospectors streamed into this arctic wilderness, hoping to strike it rich. London arrived in the Yukon in 1897. He camped in freezing cabins and walked for miles carrying heavy packs filled with supplies. He met colorful figures, including grizzled miners, native Alaskans, and a dog named Jack. Jack became the model for Buck in The Call of the Wild. Although he did not strike it rich through his mining efforts, London did discover literary gold. His tales of the landscape and people of the rugged North gained him fame around the world. QUICK GUIDE As you read The Call of the Wild, keep the following literary elements in mind: • SETTING is the time and place of the action in a novel. The Call of the Wild is set in the Yukon Territory in the late 1800s. As you read, notice how this setting creates conflicts that influence the novel’s plot. Also notice the atmosphere, or feeling, that London creates as he describes this setting. • BuckLesson experience conflicts with his own kind, with humans, with nature, and with his own instincts. Considerplans the external conflicts Buck faces as he struggles against nature and against other characters. Also, consider the internal conflicts he experiences within his mind. • PLOT is the sequence of events in a story. Each event results from a previous one and then causes the next event. Conflicts in the plot cause tension. This tension builds until it reaches a high point of suspense, called the climax. Look for the climax in The Call of the Wild. • COMPARING AND CONTRASTING CHARACTERS means figuring out ways that characters are alike and ways that they are different. Doing this can help you predict which characters will have conflicts. It can also help you understand the author’s insights about life. • REALISM is a literary movement in which people and their lives are shown as realistically as possible. Realism emphasizes the harsh realities of ordinary daily life. • The THEME is the central message or insight conveyed in a work of literature. What insights about 5 life are revealed through the experiences of Buck? © Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 1 Suggested Novel Resources (continued) TRADE BOOK LESSON PLAN: THE CALL OF THE WILD VOCABULARY TRADE BOOK LESSON PLAN: THE CALL OF THE WILD 2. (a) What does Buck face in the 1. haughty adj. showing great pride in conflicts oneself and contempt for others; arrogant Northland? 2. sullenly adv. resentfully; gloomily (b) What things does he do in order to TRADE BOOK LESSON PLAN: THE CALL OF THE WILD 3. bolted v. swallowed hungrily survive? VOCABULARY 4. sinister adj. wicked; evil (c) So far, how has this new setting 2. (a) What conflicts 5. does gravely Buck adv. face seriously; in the somberly 1. adj. showing great pride in VOCABULARY influenced the novel’s plot? haughty 2. (a) What conflicts does Buck face in the Northland? 1. haughty adj. showing great 6. pride toiled in v. worked hard and continuously oneself and contempt for others; arrogant oneself and contempt for others; arrogant Northland? 3. In your own words, explain the “law of 7. primitive adj. of the earliest times; original 2. sullenly adv. resentfully; gloomily (b) 2. sullenlyWhat adv. things resentfully; does gloomily he do in order (b)to What things does he do in order to club and fang.” 3. bolted v.
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    Accelerated Reader Book List Picking a book to read? Check the Accelerated Reader quiz list below and choose a book that will count for credit in grade 7 or grade 8 at Quabbin Middle School. Please see your teacher if you have questions about any selection. The most recently added books/tests are denoted by the darkest blue background as shown here. Book Quiz No. Title Author Points Level 8451 EN 100 Questions and Answers About AIDS Ford, Michael Thomas 7.0 8.0 101453 EN 13 Little Blue Envelopes Johnson, Maureen 5.0 9.0 5976 EN 1984 Orwell, George 8.2 16.0 9201 EN 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Clare, Andrea M. 4.3 2.0 523 EN 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Unabridged) Verne, Jules 10.0 28.0 6651 EN 24-Hour Genie, The McGinnis, Lila Sprague 4.1 2.0 593 EN 25 Cent Miracle, The Nelson, Theresa 7.1 8.0 59347 EN 5 Ways to Know About You Gravelle, Karen 8.3 5.0 8851 EN A.B.C. Murders, The Christie, Agatha 7.6 12.0 81642 EN Abduction! Kehret, Peg 4.7 6.0 6030 EN Abduction, The Newth, Mette 6.8 9.0 101 EN Abel's Island Steig, William 6.2 3.0 65575 EN Abhorsen Nix, Garth 6.6 16.0 11577 EN Absolutely Normal Chaos Creech, Sharon 4.7 7.0 5251 EN Acceptable Time, An L'Engle, Madeleine 7.5 15.0 5252 EN Ace Hits the Big Time Murphy, Barbara 5.1 6.0 5253 EN Acorn People, The Jones, Ron 7.0 2.0 8452 EN Across America on an Emigrant Train Murphy, Jim 7.5 4.0 102 EN Across Five Aprils Hunt, Irene 8.9 11.0 6901 EN Across the Grain Ferris, Jean 7.4 8.0 Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon 17602 EN Gregory, Kristiana 5.5 4.0 Trail Diary..