Language Arts Resources Used

CURRENT LIST OF SECONDARY (6-12) LANGUAGE ARTS RESOURCES USED

Northfield Public Schools September 26, 2011

Grade 6 Language Arts

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Novels: Novels (continued): Text/Anthologies: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Phoenix Rising (Have to look up the name.) A Long Way From Chicago Pinballs A Wrinkle in Time Rascal Across Five Aprils Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Teacher Resources: Banner in the Sky Running Out of Time (*5th) Trade Book Teacher Edition Birchbark House Sarah, Plain and Tall Resource Books – Novel Guides Bridge to Terabithia (*5th) Shades of Gray Chasing Vermeer Shane Cricket in Times Square (Amis.) Sherlock Holmes Mysteries WRITING Daniel’s Story Shiloh Dear Mr. Henshaw Sign of the Beaver Text: Dicey’s Song Soldier’s Heart Write Source Dog Song Sounder Rebecca Sitton Spelling Everything on a Waffle Summer of Swans Esperanza Rising (Amistades) The Breadwinner Grammar: Farewell to Manzanar The Cay Write Source Freak the Mighty The Giver Rebecca Sitton Friedrich True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Friendship and Gold Cadillac Tuck Everlasting Spelling: Gathering Blue Walk Two Moons th 6-8 List of Priority Spelling Words in Hank the Cowdog (*5 ) Westing Game Write Source Hatchet When the Tripods Came Rebecca Sitton Spelling How to Eat Fried Worms Wishgiver Incredible Journey Woodsong Lion’s Paw Island Far from Home Vocabulary: Island of Blue Dolphins Journey to Johannesburg Plays: Julie of the Wolves Teacher Resources: Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles Rebecca Sitton Spelling Little House on the Prairie Write Source Maniac Magee Short Stories: Max the Mighty Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Mud City Poetry: SPEAKING, LISTENING, AND My Side of the Mountain A Joyful Noise VIEWING Nimh (*5th) Poetry Out Loud Number the Stars Heritage Readers (Johnstone) Text: Olive’s Ocean On My Honor Painting the Dakota Nonfiction: Video/Audio Parvana’s Journey

Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)

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GRADE 6 CLASSROOM LIBRARY TITLES

Biographies That Are Not Boring (Book Set): 1. Boy: Tales of Childhood 2. Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini 3. The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler 4. Life in Prison 5. Lincoln: A Photobiography 6. Restless Spirit: The Life and Word of Dorothea Lange 7. Within Reach 8. Zlata’s Diary

Overcoming Adversity (Book Set): 1. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2. Crash 3. Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie 4. Habibi 5. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 6. Maniac Magee 7. Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind 8. The Silent Boy 9. Speak

War Stories (Book Set): 1. Dateline: Troy 2. Dawn of Fear 3. Escape from Warsaw 4. Johnny Tremain 5. My Brother Sam is Dead 6. Parvana’s Journey 7. Rifles for Watie 8. The Secret of Sarah Revere 9. Soldier’s Heart 10. When My Name Was Keoko 11. Code Talker

The Great Depression (Book Set): 1. Children of the Great Depression 2. Esperanza Rising 3. Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The New Deal President 4. Bud Not Buddy 5. A Long Way from Chicago 6. The Stock Market Crash of 1929

School Library Journal Best Books (Book Set): 1. Criss Cross 2. Heartbeat 3. I, Coriander 4. Ida B…And Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, And (Possibly) Save the World 5. The King of Attolia 6. The Lightening Thief 7. The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place

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GRADE 6 CLASSROOM LIBRARY TITLES

8. The Sea of Trolls 9. To Dance: A Ballerina’s Graphic Novel

ALA Best Books (Book Set): 1. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2. Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 3. Blizzard! The Storm that Changed America 4. The Greatest: Muhammad Ali 5. Bodies from the Ash 6. Phineas Gage: A Gruesome But True Story About Brain Science 7. Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship of Essex 8. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World

ALA Best Books – Fiction (Book Set): 1. Bucking the Sarge 2. Eagle Strike 3. Hoot 4. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 5. Montmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman 6. Surviving the Applewhites 7. The Teacher’s Funeral: A comedy in Three Parts

Paired Texts – Environmental Studies (Book Set): 1. California Blue 2. Down to Earth Guide to Global Warning 3. Flush 4. An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming 5. The Race to Save the Lord God Bird 6. I Want to Be an Environmentalist

Short Stories for Teens (Book Set): 1. Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul 2 2. The Color of Absence: 12 Stories About Loss and Hope 3. Dreams and Visions: Fourteen Flights of Fantasy 4. The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain 5. Local News 6. Lost and Found: Award-Winning Authors Sharing Real-Life Experiences Through Fiction 7. My Dad’s a Punk: 12 Stories About Boys and Their Fathers 8. Odds are Good 9. The Scary Story Reader for Sleepovers, Campfires, Car and Bus Trips 10. Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird 11. Thirteen: 12 Tales of Horror by 13 Masters of Horror

Book Source Singles: 1. Eleanor Roosevelt (Kem Knapp Sawyer) 2. My Life in Dog Years (Gary Paulson) 3. Martin Luther King Jr. (Amy Pastan) 4. Of Beetles and Angels: A Boy’s Remarkable Journey (Mawi Asgedom) 5. The Man Without a Face (Isabelle Holland) 6. Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler’s Shadow (Susan Campbell Bartoletti)

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GRADE 6 CLASSROOM LIBRARY TITLES

7. The Teacher’s Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts (Richard Peck) 8. Surviving the Applewhites (Stephanie Tolan) 9. Rules (Cynthia Lord) 10. Esperanza Rising (Pam Munoz Ryan)

Miscellaneous/Other Reading: 1. Poems for Two Voices (Paul Fleischman)

Miscellaneous Singles: 1. Out of the Dust (Karen Hesse)

Booksource – Picture Serafine (Chris Van AllsburgCollections): 1. Bad Day at Riverbend 2. Jumanji 3. Just a Dream 4. The Mysteries of Harris Burdick 5. The Polar Express 6. The Stranger 7. The Sweetest Fig 8. The Widow’s Broom 9. The Wretched Stone 10. Zathura

Booksource – Picture/Serafini: 1. Where the Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak) 2. Caps for Sale (Esphyr Slobodkina) 3. Grandfather’s Journey (Allen Say) 4. The Eleventh Hour (Graeme Base) 5. Seven Blind Mice (Ed Young) 6. The Straight Line Wonder (Mem Fox) 7. Owl Moon (Jane Yolen) 8. Mean Soup (Betsy Everitt) 9. Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups 10. The Stinky Cheesman and Other Fairly Stupid Tales (Jon Scieszka) 11. Snowflake Bentley (Jacqueline Briggs Martin) 12. The Table Where Rich People Sit (Byrd Baylor) 13. Voices in the Park (Anthony Browne) 14. Tuesday (David Wiesner) 15. The Snowman (Raymond Briggs) 16. Black and White (David Macaulay) 17. There’s a Nightmare in My Closet (Mercer Mayer) 18. Cinder Elly (Frances Minters) 19. Yen-Shen (Ai-Ling Louie) 20. The Rough-Faced Girl (Rafe Martin) 21. Mufano’s Beautiful Daughters (John Steptoe) 22. The Egyptian Cinderella (Shirley Climo) 23. The Three Questions (Jon Muth) 24. The Other Side (Jacqueline Woodson) 25. Scranimals (Jack Prelutsky)

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GRADE 6 CLASSROOM LIBRARY TITLES

Miscellaneous Picture/Serafini: 1. I’m as Quick as a Cricket (Audrey Wood) 2. The Three Pigs (David Wiesner) 3. Yo! Yes? (Chris Rashka) 4. The True Story of the Three Little Pigs (Jon Scieszka) 5. Elmer (David McKee) 6. Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse (Kevin Henkes) 7. Fly Away Home (Eve Bunting) 8. The Big Orange Splot (Daniel Poinkwater) 9. The Discovery of Dragons (Graeme Base) 10. Home of the Brave (Allen Say)

Leveled Books: 1. Level Y (6-pack) Fiction Best Seller Collection 2. Level Y (6-pack) Nonfiction Best Seller Collection 3. Level U (6-pack) Fiction Best Seller Collection 4. Level U (6-pack) Nonfiction Best Seller Collection

Benchmark Education: 1. Fractured Classics Set 2. Folktales, Myths, and Legends (Set B)

The following titles were part of your classroom library list, but were cancelled and are not currently in print: 1. The Great Depression (part of the Great Depression Book Set) 2. Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash in 1929 (part of the Great Depression Book Set) 3. Gutsy Girls (part of the ALA Best Books Book Set) 4. China’s Son: Growing Up in the Cultural Revolution (part of Book Source Singles section) 5. Horace and Morris, but Mostly Dolores (part of Booksource/Picture/Serafini book group) 6. Changes by Anthony Browne (Serafini) 7. Bub, or the Very Best Thing by Natalie Babbitt (Serafini) 8. Zoo by Anthony Browne (Serafini) 9. Rose Blanche by Roberto Innocenti (Serafini) 10. Piggy Book by Anthony Browne (Serafini) 11. How Dogs Really Work by Alan Snow (Serafini) 12. Table Manners by Chris Rashka (Serafini) 13. Willy’s Pictures by Anthony Browne (Serafini) 14. Why the Chicken Crossed the Road by David Macaulay (Serafini) 15. Pish, Posh Said Hieronymus Bosch by Nancy Willard (Serafini) 16. Bright and Early Thursday Evening by Audrey Wood (Serafini) 17. Dinorella by Pamela Edwards (Serafini)

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Language Arts Teacher Resource Crates Grade 6

Resource

1. Guided Comprehension: A Teaching Model for Grades 3-8 (Maureen McLaughlin/Mary Beth Allen) 2. Guided Comprehension: Lessons for Grades 3-8 (Maureen McLaughlin and Mary Beth Allen) 3. The Reading Workshop (Frank Serafini) 4. Lessons in Comprehension (Frank Serafini) 5. Around the Reading Workshop in 180 Days (Frank Serafini) 6. More (Advanced) Lessons in Comprehension (Frank Serafini) 7. Reading Reasons (Kelly Gallagher) Reading Reading 8. Reading Power (Adrienne Gear) 9. The Reading Zone (Nancie Atwell) 10. Interactive Read-Aloud (Linda Hoyt)

1. Lessons That Change Writers (Nancie Atwell) 2. Mechanically Inclined (Jeff Anderson) 3. Everyday Editing (Jeff Anderson) 4. Four Square: The Total Writing Classroom (Grades 5-9) (Gould, Gould, Wheeler) Writing Writing

1. Words Their Way (including supplemental books)

Study Word

1. Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning (Doug Buehl)

Area Content Content

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Nonfiction: Teacher Resources: Vocabulary: Classroom Library • Teaching Reading Strategies Embedded in daily assignments. • The American Plague (Murphy) (Scholastic) 25 Nonfiction Passages with • Kids At Work (Freedman) • Teaching Students to Read Vocabulary

• Immigrant Kids (Freedman) Nonfiction (Scholastic) Teacher Resources: • Six Days in October (Blumenthal) • Nonfiction Passages with Graphic Organizers (Scholastic) • Stretching Student Vocabulary • Leonardo DaVinci (Stanley) • Strategies that Work (Harvey) • Teaching Vocabulary Through • Blizzard (Murphy) Differentiated Instruction • Study Smart • The Great Fire (Murphy) • 180 Essential Vocabulary for 6th • School Power • We Rode the Orphan Trains Grade • Collaborative Strategic Reading (Warren) • Vocabulary Building Card Games • Escape from Saigon (Warren) • Key Three Routine

• Guts (Paulsen)

• Small Steps (Kehret)

• Farewell to Manzanar (Houston) • Encounter (Yolan)

Essays:

• “A Walk on the Underground Railroad” (Cohen)

• “Close Encounters” (Morelli)

Skill Development: • Making Inferences (Jamestown) • Understanding the Main Idea (Steck- Vaughn/Jamestown) • “6-Way Paragraphs in Content Areas” (Jamestown) • Nonfiction Text Features (Scholastic) • 35 Reading Passages with Comprehension • “Time for Kids” magazine

Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)

Northfield Public Schools Updated 9/26/2011 Grade 7

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Novels: Twain Nonfiction: Twain Nonfiction (continued): • Al Capone Does My Shirts • Abigail Adams (Sabin) • 33 Things a Girl Should Know About • Flipped • Albert Einstein (Wishinsky) Women’s History (Bolden) • Holes • Alexander Graham Bell: Giving • A Pioneer Sampler (Greenvood) • Homeless Bird Voice to the World (Carson) • Black Cats and April Fools (Oliver) • So B. It • Allan Pinkerton (Green) • Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps (Oliver) • Stargirl • Amelia Earhart: A Life in Flight • Ellis Island (Jacobs) • Touching Spirit Bear (Jones) • Ellis Island Interviews (Coan) • An Finished Battle (Sigerman) • Everyday Life: The Civil War Short Stories: • Annie Oakley (Willis) (Hanzen) • “A Retrieved Reformation” • Civil War Curiosities (Garrison) • Eyewitness to the Civil War (Kagan) • “All Summer in a Day” • Clara Barton: Founder of the • Fields of Fury (McPherson) • “Amigo Brothers” American Red Cross (Sommerville) • Frontier Medicine (Dary) • “Cask of Amontillado” • Crazy Horse (Stanley) • Growing Up in Pioneer America • “Charles” • Crocket (Stanley) (Josephson) • “Lather and Nothing Else” • Earhart (Sabin) • Hear That Train Whistle Blow! • “Names/Nombres” • Einstein (Yeatts) (Meltzer) • “Papa’s Parrot” • Elizabeth Blackwell (Sabin) • How We Lived (Seibert) • “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” • Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Social • Immigration (Hernandez) • “Thank You, Ma’am” Reformer (Burgan) • Leaders of the North and South (Yancey) • “The Three Century Woman” • For Cause and Comrades (McPherson) • Life Among Soldiers and Calvary • “The Circuit” • Frederick Douglas: Rising Up From (Corrick) • “The Dinner Party” Slavery (Ruffin) • Measles and Rubella (Saffer) • “The Last Dog” • From Slavery to Freedom with • Medicine in the American West • “The Mystery of Keesh” Harriet Tubman (Hedstrom) (Davis) • “The Raven” • Harriet Tubman: The Road to • Pioneer Women (Peevy) • “The Scholarship Jacket” Freedom (Clinton) • Popular Superstitions (Hughes) • “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” • Henson (Olmstead) • Riding the Rails in the U.S. (Sandler) • “Zebra” • Houdini (Mullin) • Scholastic Encyclopedia of the Civil • Houdini: A Photographic Story of a War (Clinton) Poetry: Life (Cobb) • The Big Book of the Civil War • “A Minor Bird” • Lewis and Clark (Burrow) (Mattern) • “A Word is Dead” • Lincoln: A Photobiography • The Civil War for Kids (Herbert) • “Annabel Lee” (Freedman) • The Little House Cookbook (Walker) • “Jabberwocky” • Mark Twain (Cox) • The Underground Railroad (Lassieur) • “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout” • Mark Twain for Kids (Rasmussen) • The Underground Railroad for Kids • “Scaffolding” • River Boy (Anderson) (Carson) • “The Charge of the Light Brigade” • Sacajawea (Howard) • Victoria’s Home Companion • “The Courage that My Mother Had” • Sitting Bull (Crummett) (Rumble)

• “The Highwayman” • The Stout-Hearted Seven (Frazier)

• “The Names” • Weapons of War (Stewart) • “The World is not a Pleasant Place to • Who was Abraham Lincoln (Pascal) Be” • Who Was Mark Twain? (Prince) • “Under the Back Porch” • Various selections in anthology

Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)

Novels: Short Stories: “7th Grade” Tom Sawyer Plays: “A Christmas Carol” Four Miles to Pinecone

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Dickens Nonfiction: Teacher Resources: Teacher Resources for Writing: • A Dictionary of Victorian London • Teaching Reading in the Middle • 6+1 Traits of Writing (Ruth Culham) (Jackson) School (Robb) • After the End (Barry Lane) • Daily Life in Victorian England • I Read It, But I Don’t Get It (Tovani) • Unjournaling (Thurston) (Mitchell) • Teaching Literary Elements • Teaching the Best Way: Methods that • Dickens: His Work and His World (McCarthy) Matter K-12 (Daniels) (Rosen) • Strategies That Work (Harvey) • Reviser’s Toolbox (Barry Lane) • Everyday Life in the 1800s • Reading Essentials (Routman) • (Barry Lane) (McCutcheon) • Do I Really Have to Teach Reading • Teaching Elaboration and Word

• Industrial Britain: The Workshop of (Tovani) Choice (Nickelsen) the World (Counsell) • Words, Words, Words (Allen) • Poem Crazy (Wooldridge) • Inside the Victorian Home (Flanders) • Teaching Reading Strategies • Writing Poetry (Tucker) • London: A Life in Maps (Whitfield) (Fordham) • The Adventures of Dr. Alphabet • The Essential Handbook of Victorian • Reading Reasons (Gallagher) (Morice) Etiquette (Hil) • Reading Reminders (Burke) • The Man Who Invented Christmas • Teaching the Best Way: Methods that (Standiford) Matter K-12 (Daniels) SPEAKING, LISTENING, AND • The Timetraveller’s Guide to VIEWING Victorian London (Narayan) • The Way People Live: Life in Video/Audio: Victorian England (Damon) WRITING • “A&E Biography: Poe” • The World of Charles Dickens (Fido) Text: • “A&E Biography: Dickens” • Victorian and Edwardian Fashion • “A&E Biography: Twain” (Gernsheim) • Write Source 2000

• “Famous Authors: Dickens” • Victorian Fashions and Costumes Grammar: (Blum) • “Famous Authors: Twain” • Heath Grammar and Composition • “School House Rock” • Victorian London Street Life in • “A Christmas Carol” Historic Photographs (Thomson) Spelling: • • “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” Victorian London: Tale of a City • Current Priority Word List 1840-1870 (Picard) • “Underground Railroad” (DVD) • Voices from Dickens’ London Teacher Resources for Vocabulary: • “Great Debators” (DVD) (Paterson) • Prefixes and Suffixes (Callella) • “Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till”

• What Jane Austen Ate and Charles • Greek and Latin Roots (Callella) (DVD) Dickens Knew (Pool) • Analogy Challenge (Schwartz) Teacher Resources:

Text/Anthologies: • Teaching the Best Way: Methods that • Literature (McDougal-Littell) Matter K-12 (Daniels) • Reader’s Handbook

Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)

Novels: Short Stories: “7th Grade” Tom Sawyer Plays: “A Christmas Carol” Four Miles to Pinecone

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Reading 7: Reading Lab

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Novels: Classroom Library: (continued) Audio Library: (continued) Classroom Library • DK Biographies: (continued) • Heaven (Johnson) • On the Run (Korman) - Helen Keller • Teachers Funeral (Peck) • Kidnapped (Korman) - Pele • Fudge-a-Mania (Bloom) - • Island (Korman) Ghandi • The Watsons Go to Birmingham • Everest (Korman) - Nelson Mandela (Curtis) • Dive (Korman) • Saddleback Biographies: • The River (Paulson) • Schooled (Korman) - Annie Oakley • Esperanza Rising (Ryan) - • Worth (Lafaye) Albert Einstein • Monsters (Myers) - Eleanor Roosevelt • So B. It (Weeks) • IQBAL (D’Adamo) - Abraham Lincoln • The Haymeadow (Paulson) - John Kennedy • The Winter Room (Paulson) Plays: - Harry Houdini • Striking Out (Weaver) • Hank the Boy - Amelia Earhart • Farm Team (Weaver) - George Washington Reading Resources: • Hard Ball (Weaver) - Charles Darwin • Kim Marshall Reading Series I and II • Memory Boy (Weaver) - Martin Luther King, Jr. • (random articles to teach SQ3R) • A Family Apart (Lowery-Nixon) - Princess Diana Study Method • Caught in the Act (Lowery-Nixon) - Helen Keller • Jamestown – Eccentrics, Weird • In the Face of Danger (Lowery- - Pele Science, Extreme Sports, Heroes, Nixon) - Ghandi Outer Edge, Wild Side • Lottery Rose (Hunt) - Nelson Mandela • Astonishing Headlines • Zebra Wall (Hankies) - Jackie Robinson • Newspaper Articles (current) – • Loser (Spinelli) - Chavez Minneapolis Star Tribune • Drivers Ed (Cooney) - Franklin D. Roosevelt Skill Development: • I Know What You Did Last Summer • Graphic Biographies: (Duncan) - Wilma Rudolph • MCAII Prep Reading Workbook • Killing Mr. Griffin (Duncan) - Matthew Henson • Signature Reading (Jamestown), Levels G and H • Eyewitness Books: - Cezar Chavez • - Pirate - Booker T. Washington Jamestown Timed Readings

- Arms in Armor • Capstone Press: - World War I - Swat Teams WRITING - Flying Machines - Skateboarding Vertical - Ancient Greece - Snowboarder X Vocabulary: - Shakespeare - Skateboarding Big Air • Vocabulary Drills (Jamestown) - Volcanoes and Earth - BMX Park Middle Level - World War II - Stranded • Best Ever Vocabulary and Word - Insects - Helicopters Study • DK Biographies: - National Security Agency • Daily Journals - Annie Oakley - Alone in the Wilderness - Albert Einstein - Snowmobiling - Eleanor Roosevelt - Bow Hunting SPEAKING, LISTENING AND - Abraham Lincoln - Jet Fighters VIEWING - John Kennedy - Spy Planes - Harry Houdini - Pheasant Hunting Video: - Amelia Earhart - Fashion Design “Warm Springs” (FDR –polio) with “Out of the Dust” - George Washington • Saddleback paperbacks

- Charles Darwin

- Martin Luther King, Jr. Audio Library: - Princess Diana • Peak (Smith) • Baseball in April (Soto) • Holes (Sachar)

Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.) • Out of the Dust (Hesse)

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Grade 8

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Novels: (Classroom Library from Perfection Novels: (continued) Novels: (continued) Learning) • Daddy’s Little Girl • Dead Girls Don’t Wwrite • Chanda’s Secrets • Dairy Queen • Dead-End Job • Crossing the Wire • Double Helix • Drums, Girls and Dangerous • Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants • Down the Yukon • Elsewhere • Escape from Memory • Fire-Eaters • Flipped • Fever • Great and Terrible Beauty • Ghost Soldiers: Forgotten • Freak the Mighty • Hat Full of Sky • Invisible • Friction • Heroes Don’t Run • Jumping Tree • Handbook for Boys • Hitchhiker’s Guide/Galaxy • Last Dance on Holladay • Hear the Wind Blow • Island Like You • Magic or Madness • Heat • Kipling’s Choice • My Friend the Enemy • Hitch • Last Juror • No More Dead Dogs • Hope’s Crossing • One of Those Hideous Books • Petty Crimes • Kissing the Rain • Pieces of Georgia • Playmaker • Legend of Buddy Bush • Pool Boy • Real Time • Malka • Red Scarf Girl • Red Kayak • New Boy • Shooter • Romiette and Julio • Northern Light • Silent to the Bone • Sledding Hill • Ropemaker • Stones in Water • Storm Thief • Shakespeare’s Spy • Supernaturalist • Tent: A Parable in One • Step from Heaven • Tending Grace • Keeper • Stormbreaker • Turnabout • Afterlife • Tears of the Salamander • Wrestling Sturbridge • Amos Fortune, Free Man • Warrior Angel • Away Laughing/Fast Camel • Anthony Burns • When We Were Saints • Begging for Change • Black Pearl • Year of Secret Assignments • Charmed • Breaking Through • Assassin • Code Orange • Bucking the Sarge

Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)

Novels: • A Midsummer Night’s Dream Novels: (continued) • Acting and the Theatre • Wide Open Spaces, American Frontiers • All Creatures Great and Small • The Outsiders • Ancient Greece (Eyewitness Series) • The Red Pony • As Blue as a Rainy Day Without a Friend • The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens • Book Thief • To Kill a Mockingbird • Cry the Beloved Country • Voices of the Holocaust • Dark Days – America’s Great Depression • What’s So Funny? • Favorite Poems: A Quotable Anthology • Who Moved My Cheese? For Teens • Flowers for Algernon • Free At Last – The Struggle for Civil Rights Short Stories: • Giants in the Earth • “The Tell-Tale Heart” • Journey Through Heartsongs • “The Ransom of Red Chief” • Mythology (Eyewitness Series) • “The Lady or the Tiger” • Nothing but the Truth • “My Teacher, the Hawk” • Reflections on a Gift of a Watermelon Pickle Nonfiction: • Secret Life of the Bees • Over the Earth I Come • Shakespeare’s Sonnets

• The Diary of Anne Frank • The Miracle Worker

Northfield Public Schools Updated 9/26/2011 Grade 8

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Novels: (continued) Novels: (continued) Novels: (continued) • Buried Onions • Life as We Knew It • Olive’s Ocean • Canyons • Runaway • Puppet Wrangler • Children of the River • Small Steps • Real Time • Clay Marble • Something About America • Rebel Angels • Dark Sons • Un Lun Dun • Rodzina • Day of Tears • Al Capone Does My Shirts • Ruins of Gorlan • Dragonwings • Any Small Goodness • Schwa was Here • Farewell to Manzanar • Before We Were Free • Scorpia • Forged by Fire • Black Duck • Seeing Stone • House of Dies Drear • Breadwinner • Skin • Jimi and Me • Code Talker • Sledding Hill • Lizzie Bright • Colibri • Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie • Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money • Fair Weather • Snap • Nightjohn • Flush • Stand Tall • Secret of Gumbo Grove • From Slave Ship to Freedom • Teacher’s Funeral • Slave Dancer • Graduation of Jake Moon • Trouble Don’t Last • Tequila Worm • Heir Apparent • Uglies • Ties that Bind • Hello, America • What Would Joey Do • Touching Spirit Bear • Holes • When My Name Was Keooko • Trino’s Choice • Hoot • Year Down Yonder • Under the Blood – Red Sun • In Darkness, Death • Amulet of Samarkand • With Every Drop of Blood • Invisible • Heat • Words by heart • Last Apprentice – Revenge • Parvana’s Journey • Accidental Love • Lightning Thief • Supernaturalist • Astonishing Life • Lord of the Deep • William Shakespeare • Edenville Owls • Mango-shaped Space • Worth • Hoop Kings • My Brother’s Keeper • Long Way/Chicago

Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)

• Flowers for Algernon Short Stories: • Free At Last – The Struggle for Civil Rights • “The Tell-Tale Heart” • Giants in the Earth • “The Ransom of Red Chief” • Journey Through Heartsongs • “The Lady or the Tiger” • Mythology (Eyewitness Series) • “My Teacher, the Hawk” • Nothing but the Truth • Reflections on a Gift of a Watermelon Pickle Nonfiction: • Secret Life of the Bees • Over the Earth I Come • Shakespeare’s Sonnets • The Diary of Anne Frank • The Miracle Worker

Northfield Public Schools Updated 9/26/2011 Grade 8

READING (continued) WRITING SPEAKING, LISTENING, AND VIEWING Text/Anthology: Text: Literature (McDougal Littell) Write Source Text: The Yippee Book Teacher Resources: Grammar: Page to Stage • Literature (teacher edition) The Giggly Guide to Grammar Theater Arts I-II

• Cry the Beloved Country (teacher ChildsPlay Teacher Resources: edition) Write Source Video/Audio: • To Kill a Mockingbird (teacher Elements of Style “To Kill a Mockingbird” edition) Reviser’s Toolbox “The Miracle Worker” • Dark Days (teacher edition) Discovering the Writer Within “Frontier House” • The Red Pony (teacher edition) The Healing Pen “The Red Pony” • Teaching Reading in the Middle Lessons that Change Writers “The Outsiders” School Naming the World Writing Down the Bones • Naked Reading Teacher Resources: Bird by Bird Speak for Yourself • Reading Reasons Writing without Teachers • Reading Reminders

Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)

Novels: Novels: (continued) • A Midsummer Night’s Dream • Wide Open Spaces, American Frontiers • Acting and the Theatre • The Outsiders • All Creatures Great and Small • The Red Pony • Ancient Greece (Eyewitness Series) • The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens • As Blue as a Rainy Day Without a Friend • To Kill a Mockingbird • Book Thief • Voices of the Holocaust • Cry the Beloved Country • What’s So Funny? • Dark Days – America’s Great Depression • Who Moved My Cheese? For Teens • Favorite Poems: A Quotable Anthology • Flowers for Algernon Short Stories: • Free At Last – The Struggle for Civil Rights • “The Tell-Tale Heart” • Giants in the Earth • “The Ransom of Red Chief” • Journey Through Heartsongs • “The Lady or the Tiger” • Mythology (Eyewitness Series) • “My Teacher, the Hawk” • Nothing but the Truth • Reflections on a Gift of a Watermelon Pickle Nonfiction: • Secret Life of the Bees • Over the Earth I Come • Shakespeare’s Sonnets • The Diary of Anne Frank • The Miracle Worker

Northfield Public Schools Updated 9/26/2011 English 9: Semester 1 (includes Academy 9)

READING WRITING SPEAKING, LISTENING, AND VIEWING Novels: Text: • Chinese Cinderella Writer’s Inc. Video/Audio: • Cage • One Survivor Remembers

• Call of the Wild • Swing Kids Grammar: • Life is Beautiful • Color of Water Writer’s Inc. • Lord of the Flies (Simpsons) • Day No Pigs Would Die • Of Mice and Men • Farewell to Manzanar • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Spelling: Lord of the Flies • O Pioneers

• Things Fall Apart • Tuesdays with Morrie Vocabulary: • Wrinkle in Time Night • The Late Homecomer

• The Names Teacher Resources: • A Separate Peace Writer’s Inc. • Great Expectations

Text/Anthology:

Literature (McDougal Littell)

Teacher Resources: Literature (teacher edition)

Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)

Novels: Short Stories: • Lord of the Flies • “Angela’s Ashes” • Night • “Fish Cheeks” • Of Mice and Men • “Black Boy” • “Sacred Ground” Poetry: Literature (McDougal Littell) • “Scarlet Ibis” • The Odyssey • “Special Siblings” • “The Gift of the Magi” Video/Audio: • “The Necklace” • Nightjohn • “The Lost Boys” • The Boy in Striped Pajamas • “Marigolds” • “American History” • “Pancakes”

• “Through the Tunnel”

• “A Christmas Memory”

Northfield Public Schools Updated 9/26/2011 English 9: Semester 2 (includes Academy 9)

READING WRITING SPEAKING, LISTENING, AND VIEWING Novels: Text: • I Remember Mama Writer’s Inc. Video/Audio: • Brighton Beach Memoirs • Simon Birch

• Raisin in the Sun • Peace Like a River Grammar: • Twelve Angry Men Writer’s Inc. • Our Town • Into the Woods Vocabulary: Peace Like a River

Text/Anthology: Literature (McDougal Littell) Teacher Resources: Writer’s Inc. Teacher Resources: Literature (teacher edition)

Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)

Novels: • Peace Like a River • This I Believe

Plays: • Romeo and Juliet

Video/Audio: • Romeo and Juliet • Signs

Northfield Public Schools Updated 9/26/2011 Advanced English 9

READING WRITING SPEAKING, LISTENING, AND VIEWING Fiction Novels: Text: The Handmaids Tale Writer’s Inc. Video/Audio: Of Mice and Men Nonfiction Novels: 12 Angry Men Kafir Boy Romeo and Juliet Lord of the Flies Plays: On Golden Pond “New York Minute” Much Ado About Nothing “With or Without You” West Side Story

Short Stories: A Small Good Thing The Ledge All the Kings Horses Open Boat A Good Man is Hard to Find A Rose for Emily What Redburn Saw in Lancelot’s Hey The Things They Carried Death by Landscape

Poetry: “Shut In” “Road Less Traveled” “Out Out” “Nothing Gold Can Stay” “Stopping by Woods” “The Mirror” “Up Hill” “To a Mouse” “Apparently With No Surprise” “Dulce Et Decorum Est” “Channel Firing” “As He Lay Dying” “The Man He Killed” “To His Coy Mistress” “To the Virgins” “To a Waterfowl” “Traveling Through the Dark” “Is My Team Ploughing” “Those Winter Sundays” “Ballad of Birmingham”

Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)

Fiction Novels: Plays: Of Mice and Men “Romeo and Juliet” Lord of the Flies “12 Angry Men” “Death of a Salesman” “Dust of the Road” “The Lottery”

Northfield Public Schools Updated 9/26/2011

Literature and Composition 10

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Novels: Classroom Library/Fiction (cont.): Classroom Library/Non-Fiction: Fallen Angels (some years) Alabama Moon Eagle Blue Walkabout (some years) All Rivers Flow to Sea Ark Angel Short Stories: Classroom Library/Fiction: Behind Rebel Lines “Sucker” Annie Between the States Black Duck “The Interlopers” Big Mouth and Ugly Girl Blood on the River “The Landlady” Birchbark House Book Thief “The White Circle” Body of Christopher Creed Boot Camp “The Feather Pillow” Bud Not Buddy Break with Charity Cape Ann Defect Teacher Resources: Coffin Quilt Eagle Strike Sourcebook (Green Level) and Copper Sun Fire From the Rock Teacher’s Edition Deadline First Shot Lessons that Change Writers Devil on My Heels Flight Education of Little Tree Flush WRITING Elijah of Buxton Good Masters Sweet Ladies Esperanza Rising Guts Text: Evil Genius Gym Candy Writer’s Inc. Fahrenheit 451 Heat Fever 1793 I am the Messenger Teacher Resources: Gardenias Inexcusable Affective Skills Teacher Guide God of Animals Jumping the Scratch Hanging on to Max Lawn Boy Hattie Big Sky Legend of Bass Reeves SPEAKING, LISTENING, AND Heart Divided Looking for JJ VIEWING Higher Power of Lucky Marley and Me How I Found the Strong Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist Video/Audio: Indian Captive Night Hoops “Speak” Into the Wild Open Ice Jim the Boy Point Blank Kira-Kira Running Loose Knights of the Hill Country Season of Ice Life as We Knew It So B It Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Soldier Boys Boy The Glass Castle Macaroni Boy The House on Mango Street My Mother the Cheerleader The Watsons Go to Birmingham No Promises in the Wind Thirteen Reasons Why Numbering All the Bones Three Little Words Olives Ocean Trigger (First) Pictures of Hollis Woods Truth Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Tweak Rules Twilight Single Shard Walk Two Moons Sounder Wing Nut Tears of a Tiger Witch Child Twisted Witch of Blackbird Pond Wednesday Wars Wright 3 Welcome to the Ark Yellow Flag

Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)

Speak No Promises in the Wind I have Lived a Thousand Years

Northfield Public Schools Updated 9/26/2011 English 10

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Lit Labs Classroom Library (Fiction): Lit Labs Classroom Library (Fiction): Lit Labs Classroom Library (Fiction): Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time (continued) (continued) Indian American Tragedy Finn Break with Charity Arrival First Crossing Cats in Krasinski Square Ask Me No Questions First Farm in the Valley Chains Giants in the Earth From the Banat to North Dakota Escaping Salem Awakening Hard Love Henry’s Freedom Box Beautiful and Damned Immigrant Kids Horton Hatches the Egg Dave At Night O Pioneers Indian Captive Double Bind On the Fringe Known World Eight Men Out Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Lace Reader Ella’s Big Chance The Windigo’s Return Lorax English Roses Tortilla Curtain Loud Silence of Francine Green Hazards of New Fortunes Tree Grows in Brooklyn Odd Velvet Jake the Baker Makes a Cake Uncle Tom’s Cabin Salem Falls Las Manzanas Del Sr. Peabody Widow’s Broom Sneetches Laura’s Early Years (collection) Yertle the Turtle So Brave, Young, and Handsome Little Nino’s Pizzeria True Story of the 3 Little Pigs Mr. Peabody’s Apples Lit Labs Classroom Library (Nonfiction): Under the Quilt of Night Witch’s Trinity 120 Banned Books Whipping Boy Child of My Right Hand 1920’s from Prohibition to Charles Witch Child Dear America Series: Dreams in the Lindbergh Against All Odds Golden Country Declarations of Independence American Born Chinese Esperanza Rising

Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)

Nonfiction: Fiction Short Stories: (continued) Black Like Me Poetry: (continued) “Beat Beat Drums” (Whitman) “Harlem” “Vigil Strange” (Whitman) Fiction: “I, Too” “Song of Myself” (Whitman) Huckleberry Finn “America” “To Build a Fire” My Antonia “Birdies” (Frost) “The Windigo’s Return” The Bean Trees “Snowbound” “The Bingo Van” The Great Gatsby “Thanatopsis” “Queen of Diamonds” “The Tide Rises”

Plays: “The Cross of Snow” Nonfiction Short Stories: The Crucible “Old Ironsides” “A Narrative of Captivity” Our Town “The Red Wheelbarrow” “Of Plymouth Plantation” “Chicago” “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” Fiction Short Stories: “Somewhere I have never “Resistance to Civil Government” “A Pair of Silk Stockings” traveled, gladly beyond” “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” “A Rose for Emily” “This is just to say” “Battle with Mr. Covey” “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” “Self-Reliance” “In Another Country” Video/Audio: “Nature” “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” My Antonia/The Great Gatsby “Walden” “Rip Van Winkle” Huck Finn “Myth of Heroism” “Fall of the House of Usher” The Bean Trees (Audio CD) “Here follow …” (A Broadstreet) “The Cask of Amontillado” The Adventures of Huck Finn P. Henry Speech to Virginia Convention “Short Happy Life of Francis McComber” (Audio CD) B. Franklin Autobiography “A Soldier’s Home” The Great Gatsby (Audio CD) T. Jefferson – Declaration of Independence “Sweat” My Antonia (Audio CD)

“Desiree’s Baby” The Crucible Poetry: “Story of an Hour” Smoke Signals Harlem Renaissance poetry (in anthology) “The Minister’s Black Veil” – Hawthorne Cora Unashamed Whitman and Dickenson (in anthology) “Jungle” (excerpt) Martin Luther King “Dream Frost poetry (in anthology) “The Raven” Speech” “Incident”

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Lit Labs Classroom Library (Nonfiction): Lit Labs Classroom Library (Nonfiction): Vocabulary: (continued) (continued) Word Smart Ellis Island Interviews Visit to Mark Twain’s House F. Scott Fitzgerald Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting SPEAKING, LISTENING, AND Flappers and Philosophers Together in the Cafeteria VIEWING Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain I’m Sorry About the Clock Without Sanctuary If You Lived When There Was Video/Audio:

Slavery N Word (DVD/Film) Texts: If You Were a Pioneer on the Prairie Unchained Memories (DVD/Film) Holt: Elements of Literature (5th edition) In the Days of the Salem Witchcraft Good Night, Good Luck (DVD/Film) Trials In Search of History: Salem Witch Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Teacher Resources Trials (DVD/Film) Inside the Plaza Holt: Elements of Literature (Teacher V-Ragtime (DVD/Film) Iola Leroy Edition) The Untouchables (DVD/Film) Judge Sewell’s Apology The Lost Generation (DVD/Film) Lynchings in Duluth WRITING Sweetland (DVD/Film) Salem Witch Trials (by Dunn) Akeelah and the Bee (DVD/Film) Savage Inequalities Text: Edge of America (DVD/Film) The Devil on Trial: Witches, Writer’s Inc. O’Pioneers (DVD/Film) Anarchists, Atheists, Communists, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape and Terrorists in America’s Grammar: (DVD/Film) Courtrooms Writer’s Inc. Laramie Project (DVD/Film) The Wordy Shipmates Through My Eyes

Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)

Fiction Short Stories: (continued) Nonfiction: Poetry: (continued) “Beat Beat Drums” (Whitman) Black Like Me “Harlem” “Vigil Strange” (Whitman) “I, Too” “Song of Myself” (Whitman) Fiction: “America” “To Build a Fire” Huckleberry Finn “Birdies” (Frost) “The Windigo’s Return” My Antonia “Snowbound” “The Bingo Van” The Bean Trees “Thanatopsis” “Queen of Diamonds” The Great Gatsby “The Tide Rises”

“The Cross of Snow” Nonfiction Short Stories: Plays: “Old Ironsides” “A Narrative of Captivity” The Crucible “The Red Wheelbarrow” Our Town “Of Plymouth Plantation” “Chicago” “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” “Somewhere I have never Fiction Short Stories: “Resistance to Civil Government” traveled, gladly beyond” “A Pair of Silk Stockings” “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” “This is just to say” “A Rose for Emily” “Battle with Mr. Covey” “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” “Self-Reliance” Video/Audio: “In Another Country” “Nature” My Antonia/The Great Gatsby “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” “Walden” Huck Finn “Rip Van Winkle” “Myth of Heroism” The Bean Trees (Audio CD) “Fall of the House of Usher” “Here follow …” (A Broadstreet) The Adventures of Huck Finn “The Cask of Amontillado” P. Henry Speech to Virginia Convention (Audio CD) “Short Happy Life of Francis McComber” B. Franklin Autobiography The Great Gatsby (Audio CD) “A Soldier’s Home” T. Jefferson – Declaration of Independence My Antonia (Audio CD) “Sweat” The Crucible “Desiree’s Baby” Poetry: Smoke Signals “Story of an Hour” Harlem Renaissance poetry (in anthology) Cora Unashamed “The Minister’s Black Veil” – Hawthorne Whitman and Dickenson (in anthology) Martin Luther King “Dream “Jungle” (excerpt) Frost poetry (in anthology) Speech” “The Raven” “Incident”

Northfield Public Schools Updated 9/26/2011

Grade 10 Advanced

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Fiction: Fiction: (continued) Fiction: (continued) A Farewell to Arms The Time of Butterflies This Boy’s Life

A Prayer for Owen Meany The Women of Brewster Place Thousand Acres Age of Innocence Their Eyes are Watching God Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Black Boy To Kill a Mockingbird Maintenance

Bless Me, Ultima Uncle Tom’s Cabin Roots Daisy Miller A River Runs Through It Sea Biscuit East of Eden A Tree Grows in Brooklyn The Brothers K

Empire Falls All the Pretty Horses The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Grapes of Wrath Billy Budd Sailor The Hours In Cold Blood Catch-22 The Namesake

Kite Runner Catcher in the Rye Angel of a Repose Life in the Iron Mills Cold Mountain O Pioneers Light in August Confessions of Nat Turner Painted House

Little Women Corrections Plainsong Love Medicine Enders Game Portrait of a Lady Main Street Franny and Zooey The Natural

Moby Dick Gone with the Wind The Shipping News On the Road Infinite Jest The Bluest Eyes Poisonwood Bible Iola Leroy The Color Purple

Puddinhead Wilson Lesson Before Dying The Good Earth Red Badge of Courage Lonesome Dove The Jungle Sister Carrie My Name is Asher Lev The Known World Snow Falling on Cedars

Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)

Nonfiction Short Stories: Poetry: (continued) Fiction Novels: A Narrative of the Captivity “Beat Beat Drums” A Yellow Raft on Blue Water The Dividing Line “Vigil Strange” The Scarlet Letter Of Plymouth Plantation “I, Too” The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Sinners in the Hand “Chambered Nautilus” The Awakening Resistance to Civil Government “Of DeWitt Williams on His The Great Gatsby Nature Way to Lincoln Cemetery” The Bean Trees Battle with Mr. Covey “The Weary Blues”

Harriet Jacob’s Frees Herself “Chicago” Fiction Short Stories: Oland “The Red Wheelbarrow” Desireé’s Baby a Slave Narrative “Somewhere I have never Roman Fever Self-Reliance traveled gladly beyond” The Short Happy Life of Francis Letter from a Birmingham Jail “This is just to say” Macomber

Various NA myths Poetry: Text/Anthology: The Cask of Amantillado “The Cross of Snow” Holt: Elements of Literature The Story of an Hour “The Tide Rises” Persecution of a Boy “Thanatopsis” Video/Audio: The War Prayer “Snowbound” Smoke Signals Cora, Unashamed “Old Ironsides” The Crucible Sweat “The Raven” Age of Innocence The Bingo Van “Annabelle Lee” A River Runs Through It

“To Helen” Cora, Unashamed

“Song of Myself” Edge of America

“Incident” Matters of Race “Theme from English B” “Raisin in the Sun” “To America” “Harlem”

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Nonfiction: Text/Anthology: Assassination Vacation American Literature – Elements of Literature Autobiography of Ben Franklin Autobiography of Fredrick Douglass Teacher Resources: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Shadow of Hate – Teaching Tolerance Dust Tracks on a Road I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl WRITING Into the Wild Letters of John and Abigail Adams Text: Nickel and Dimed Writer’s Inc. Reading Lolita in Tehran The Federalist Papers Grammar: Up From Slavery Writer’s Inc. Walden Woman Warrior Spelling: Working Writer’s Inc.

Plays: Vocabulary: Glass Menagerie Word Smart (Princeton Review) A Raisin in the Sun The Crucible Teacher Resources: Fences MLA Handbook Death of a Salesman Our Town

Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)

Fiction Novels: Nonfiction Short Stories: Poetry: (continued) A Yellow Raft on Blue Water A Narrative of the Captivity “Beat Beat Drums” The Scarlet Letter The Dividing Line “Vigil Strange” The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Of Plymouth Plantation “I, Too” The Awakening Sinners in the Hand “Chambered Nautilus” The Great Gatsby Resistance to Civil Government “Of DeWitt Williams on His The Bean Trees Nature Way to Lincoln Cemetery” Battle with Mr. Covey “The Weary Blues” Fiction Short Stories: Harriet Jacob’s Frees Herself “Chicago” Desireé’s Baby Oland “The Red Wheelbarrow” Roman Fever a Slave Narrative “Somewhere I have never The Short Happy Life of Francis Self-Reliance traveled gladly beyond” Macomber Letter from a Birmingham Jail “This is just to say” Various NA myths The Cask of Amantillado Poetry: Text/Anthology: The Story of an Hour “The Cross of Snow” Holt: Elements of Literature Persecution of a Boy “The Tide Rises” The War Prayer “Thanatopsis” Video/Audio: Cora, Unashamed “Snowbound” Smoke Signals Sweat “Old Ironsides” The Crucible The Bingo Van “The Raven” Age of Innocence “Annabelle Lee” A River Runs Through It “To Helen” Cora, Unashamed “Song of Myself” Edge of America “Incident” Matters of Race “Theme from English B” “Raisin in the Sun” “To America” “Harlem”

Northfield Public Schools Updated 9/26/2011

Reading Elective: British Literature

READING WRITING SPEAKING, LISTENING, AND VIEWING Novels: Text: Gulliver’s Travels Writing About Literature Video/Audio: 1984 Why I Write “War of the Buttons” Angela’s Ashes Writer’s Inc. “In Search of the Real Frankenstein” th Christmas Carol “Frankenstein” (75 Edition) Pride and Prejudice “Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales” “Wuthering Heights” Plays: “In Search of Shakespeare” Hamlet or Midsummer Night’s Dream “My Fair Lady” “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” Short Stories: “Famous Authors – The Bronte “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” Sisters” “Le Morte d’Arthur” “Jane Eyre” “Canterbury Tales” “Beowulf”

Poetry: “Do Not Go Gentle” – Dylan Thomas British Romantic Poets Anthology

Text/Anthologies: British Literature – McDougall Little British Romantic Poetry – Dover

Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)

Northfield Public Schools Updated 9/26/2011

Reading Elective: Advanced British Literature

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Alice’s Adventures of Wonderland British Literature – McDougall Littell Video/Audio: All Art is Propaganda British Romantic Poetry – Dover “War of the Buttons” Angela’s Ashes “In Search of the Real Frankenstein” Beowulf “Frankenstein” (75th Edition) British Literary Manuscripts “Chaucer and the Canterbury Canterbury Tales WRITING Tales” Christmas Carol “Wuthering Heights” Emma Text: “In Search of Shakespeare” Facing Unpleasant Facts Writer’s Inc. “My Fair Lady” Great Expectation Writing About Literature “Sir Gawain and the Green Gulliver’s Travels Why I Write Knight” Hound of Baskervilles “Famous Authors – The Bronte Jane Eyre Teacher Resources: Sisters” Kidnapped MCA Handbook “Jane Eyre” Kim Mansfield Park Maurice, or the Fisher’s Cot: A Tale Medieval Lays and Legends No Fear Hamlet Oliver Twist Pride and Prejudice Secret Garden Sense and Sensibility Shakespeare’s Words Villette Wuthering Heights

Plays: Hamlet

Short Stories: “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” “Le Morte d’Arthur” “A Modest Proposal”

Poetry: “Songs of Innocence” – Blake “Lonely on a Cloud” – Wordsworth “Tintern Abbey” – Wordsworth “Cats” – T.S. Eliot “Do Not Go” – Thomas “Gentle” – Thomas “In My Craft” – Thomas

Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)

Frankenstein English Romantic Poetry 1984 Pygmalion Language of Literature (McDougal-Littell)

Reading Elective: Contemporary Literature

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Novels: Short Stories: Text: 10 Things I Wished I’d Known Before “Me Talk Pretty One Day” – David Writer’s Inc. I went Out Into the Real World Sedaris Writing About Literature NorthfieldAnd Then There Public Were Schools None Why I Write Updated 9/26/2011 Art of Happiness Audacity of Hope Poetry: Book Stops Here “Wild Geese” – Mary Oliver Diary of a Bad Year Reading Elective: Sports Literature

READING SPEAKING, LISTENING, AND VIEWING

Fiction: Video/Audio: Outside Groove Field of Dreams Breath Finding Forrester Yellow Flag Peak Experience Pipeline

Nonfiction: Extraordinary Women Athletes Where the Mountain Casts its Shadow Left for Dead Hold the Enlightenment Jaguars Ripped My Flesh Running the Amazon Backcast Lost in the Jungle

Short Stories: The Death of Tommy Grimes The Defender The Other Pin

Poetry: Motion: Modern American Sports Poems This Sporting Life

Text/Anthology: Best of Sports Short Stories Ultimate Sports Short Stories Norton Book of Sports Whole Other Ball Game

Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)

Fiction Novels: Nonfiction Novels: Shoeless Joe Swimming to Antarctica Winterdance Between a Rock and a Hard Place Lost in the Wild Into Thin Air

Northfield Public Schools Updated 9/26/2011 Reading Elective: Myth and Mystery

READING SPEAKING, LISTENING, AND VIEWING

Poetry: Video/Audio: The Odyssey (from textbook) The Odyssey The Prestige In the Heat of the Night Plays: The Power of Myth Mythological Stories (from textbook) Mythology in Literary Culture

Short Stories: “Murders in the Rue Morgue” “The Blue Cross” “Quitters, Inc.” “The Dark Snow”

Nonfiction: World Mythology: An Anthology Mythology Around the World Celtic Mythology Handbook of Chinese Mythology In the Beginning Japanese Tales Mythology of the World Speaking Land World of Myth Daulaires Book of Norse Myths Egyptian Mythology Myths of Korea Mythology World Mythology (Henry Holt Reference Book) Gods and Pharaohs from Egyptian Mythology Parallel Myths

Text/Anthologies: Great American Mystery Stories of the Century Classic Mystery Stories Mythology - Textbook

Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)

The Hound of Baskervilles

Northfield Public Schools Updated 9/26/2011 Grade 11 Writing Elective: Academic Writing

WRITING SPEAKING, LISTENING, AND VIEWING

Fiction: Video/Audio: Forgotten Fire “Smoke Signals” The Book Thief Memoirs of a Geisha The Judas Field Mudbound Monkey Bridge Zookeeper’s Wife

Nonfiction: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down Bookseller of Kabul Colors of the Mountain Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight Life is So Good Mayflower In a Sunburned Country The Last Lecture Infidel The Lost Daughters of China A Mighty Heart Long Way Gone

Text/Anthology: Write for College and Teacher’s Guide Roget’s Thesaurus

Grammar: Writer’s Inc.

Vocabulary: Word Smart (Princeton Review)

Teacher Resources: Differentiated Instruction in the English Classroom Papers, Papers, Papers

Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)

Fiction Novels: Nonfiction Novels: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven Three Cups of Tea 3 Minutes or Less Color of Water Death of Innocence Dreams From My Father First They Killed My Father Not On Our Watch Reading Lolita in Tehran

Northfield Public Schools Updated 9/26/2011 Writing Elective: College Preparatory Writing

WRITING

Novels: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Bastard Out of Carolina Beauty Beekeeper’s Apprentice Bell Jar Beloved Briar Rose Catch-22 Cold Mountain Color Purple Death in the Family Enders Game Fahrenheit 451 Go Tell It On the Mountain Grendel In Country Lesson Before Dying Looking Backward Montana 1948 Painted Bird Pride and Prejudice Seize the Day Slaughterhouse 5 Stranger Time Machine Winesburg Ohio

Grammar: Write for College Teacher generated packets on sentence types

Vocabulary: Teacher generated lists

Teacher Resources: MLA Handbook

Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)

Fiction Novels: Staggerford Short Stories: The Handmaid’s Tale “A Society” “Boys and Girls” Plays: “I Stand Here Ironing” “Trifles” (1-act play) “Separating” “Miss Brill” “The Ambitious Guest” “The Rocking-Horse Winner”

Northfield Public Schools Updated 9/26/2011 Writing Elective: Nonfiction Writing

WRITING

Text: Writer’s Inc.

Teacher Resources: Writing Nonfiction (4/E) Art of Creative Nonfiction Effective Business and Nonfiction How to Teach Nonfiction Writing

Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)

Writing Creative Nonfiction Creating Nonfiction

Northfield Public Schools Updated 9/26/2011 Writing Elective: Fiction Writing

WRITING

Text: Writer’s Inc.

Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)

The Practice of Creative Writing: A Guide for Students

Northfield Public Schools Updated 9/26/2011 Elective: Speech

WRITING

Text: Writer’s Inc.

Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)

Communication Principles for a Lifetime (Pearson Education)

Northfield Public Schools Updated 9/26/2011 AP World Literature

READING SPEAKING, LISTENING, AND VIEWING

Short Stories: Video/Audio: The Overcoat Innocent Voices Exile Apocalypse Now The Very Old Men with Wings Globe Trekker – India A Temporary Matter Vanya on 42nd Street

Poetry: “My Papa’s Waltz” “Geese” “She Came and Went” “Curiosity”

Text/Anthology: AP Reader

Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)

Fiction Novels: Plays: Video/Audio: Heart of Darkness “Doll House” Monsoon Wedding Beloved “No Exit” Rope Picture of Dorian Gray “Waiting for Godot” Cool Hand Luke Crime and Punishment “Julius Caesar” No Direction Home Brave New World “Uncle Vanya” 100 Years of Solitude God of Small Things Short Stories: Dantes “Inferno” “Where Are You Going Where Have You Been” The Stranger “The Moth”

Northfield Public Schools Updated 9/26/2011