7Th from Emmett
List of novels, stories, poems, and essays studied at MBA 7th Grade English Novels: The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien (summer reading) A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee Core Short Stories: “The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle “So Much Unfairness of Things,” C. D. B. Bryan “To Build a Fire,” Jack London “There Will Come Soft Rains,” Ray Bradbury “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Edgar Allan Poe Optional Stories: “Two Bottles of Relish,” Lord Dunsany Core Poems: "A Narrow Fellow in the Grass," Emily Dickinson "Ballad of Birmingham," Dudley Randall "Dream Deferred," Langston Hughes "Life Sculpture," George Washington Doane "Meeting at Night," Robert Browning "My Mistress's Eyes," William Shakespeare "The Cremation of Sam McGee," Robert W. Service "The Eagle," Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Pasture," Robert Frost "The Raven," Edgar Allan Poe "The Road Not Taken," Robert Frost "Those Winter Sundays," Robert Hayden Optional Poems: "A White Rose," John Boyle O'Reilly "Oranges," Gary Soto "The Red Wheelbarrow," William Carlos Williams “On Turning Ten,” Billy Collins “O Captain, My Captain,” Walt Whitman “Ode to a Tuna in a Market,” Pablo Neruda “Under the Harvest Moon,” Carl Sandburg “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” Alfred, Lord Tennyson “Button,” Jane Hirshfield 8th Grade English Novels and Plays: And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie (summer reading) The Contender, Robert Lipsyte (summer reading) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Samuel Clemens Lord of the Flies, William Golding
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