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Affiliate Program-Middle School Flyer.Indd Teachers COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS INITIATIVE Catalog EXEMPLAR TEXTS • MIDDLE SCHOOL EDITION • www.doverpublications.com Fall 2013 The World’s Greatest Literature for Your Middle School Classroom The Dover Book Club Great Books for Children, Valuable Rewards for Their School ith the Dover Book Club, you can access a huge Teachers can then use the rewards for discounts on Common Wselection of educational and entertaining books at Core State Standards exemplar texts, classic literature and affordable prices as you help your child’s school save on poetry, and thousands of other outstanding books. high-quality learning materials. This special collection includes a hand-picked selection of When you use the shopping link provided by your child’s Dover bestsellers for your child — you can choose from over teacher, every Dover order you place earns a classroom 10,000 more titles at our website. Please remember, you must reward equal to 25% of the purchase value. use your teacher’s exclusive shopping link when ordering. Welcome to the Dover Book Club. We hope that you fi nd it a rewarding experience! Common Core Standards: The Common Core State Standards Initiative is a state-led effort coordinated by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). The standards were developed in collaboration with teachers, school administrators, and experts to provide a clear and consistent framework to prepare our children for college and the workforce. Dover is proud to offer a wide variety of the exemplar texts chosen by the NGA and CCSSO, many of which can be found below and on page 3. For more information and a complete listing of Dover’s Common Core titles, please visit www.doverpublications.com/commoncore POETRY COLLECTIONS FICTION THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER , Mark Honors English 9 teacher uses this book! Twain. A Common Core exemplar text. 192pp. 5 3/16 x 8 1/4. 0-486-40077-8 $3.50 “I like my students to write in their books, so I buy each freshman this book and we base our Advanced LITTLE WOMEN , Louisa May Alcott. A Common Placement poetry unit on this book. Students choose Core exemplar text. 608pp. 5 3/16 x 8 1/4. 0-486-41023-4 $4.50 one poem, memorize it, then TPCASTT it (AP style of analysis). They then teach the students in the room their poem. It is a great unit and the students love having this book to keep their notes in.” — English Wells, Springfield, OR NONFICTION NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS , 100 BEST-LOVED POEMS , Edited by Philip Smith. Includes Frederick Douglass. A Common Core exemplar text. 96pp. “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening,” “Fog,” “Chicago,” 5 3/16 x 8 1/4. 0-486-28499-9 $1.50 “Jabberwocky,” “O Captain! My Captain!” “The Road Not Taken,” “Musee des Beaux Arts,” “Ozymandias,” “Sonnet 73,” “The Raven,” GREAT SPEECHES OF THE 20TH CENTURY , Edited by Bob “Because I Could Not Stop for Death,” “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” and Blaisdell. Includes "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: Address “The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” from the Common Core. 96pp. to Parliament on May 13th, 1940," "I Have a Dream," and 5 3/16 x 8 1/4. 0-486-28553-7 $2.00 "Remarks to the Senate in Support of a Declaration of Conscience" from the Common Core. 256pp. 5 3/16 x 8 1/4. 0-486-47467-4 $3.50 101 GREAT AMERICAN POEMS , THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION : The Full Text with Edited by The American Poetry & Supplementary Materials , Edited and with supplementary Literacy Project. Includes "Casey at materials by Bob Blaisdell. Includes The United States Bill the Bat," "Fog," "The New Colossus," of Rights and The Preamble and First Amendment to the "Chicago," "I, Too, Sing America," "O Unites States Constitution from the Common Core. 176pp. Captain! My Captain!," "Paul Revere's 5 3/16 x 8 1/4. 0-486-47166-7 $3.50 Ride," "The Road Not Taken," "The Raven," "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," "Mending Wall," "The ALSO OF INTEREST Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," and "The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter" from the Common Core. 96pp. THE BUILDING OF MANHATTAN , Written 5 3/16 x 8 1/4. 0-486-40158-8 $2.00 and Illustrated by Donald A. Mackay. A SELECTED POEMS , Emily Common Core exemplar text. 160pp. 9 x 12. Dickinson. 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