Novel Choices Grades 6–12
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NOVEL CHOICES GRADES 6–12 LitBro581L1108myP_Novels_final.indd 1 4/8/20 3:05 PM OPEN A WORLD OF IDEAS 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. Student • Select favorite authors and titles. Choice • 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 Muliticultural Novels Savvas.com/myPerspectives LitBro581L1108myP_Novels_final.indd 2 4/8/20 3:05 PM New Novel Titles Continuously Added! UNIT ALIGNED NOVELS Each unit in myPerspectives includes recommended novels and resources that are aligned to the theme. See Pages 4–21 DIGITAL NOVELS 140+ eBooks are included with myPerspectives on Ever- growing ™ Savvas Realize . Also available are 200+ lesson plans Digital with discussion questions and assessments. Library See Pages 22–25 HOOK & INSPIRE BOOK TALK TITLES These novels are aligned to our Hook & Inspire texts included in each unit. Consider using these high-interest titles for informal book clubs, as student choice for independent reading, or to prompt rich conversations. Books Your Kids See Pages 26–37 Will Want to Read! PRINT NOVEL OPTIONS Choose from 1000+ English and Spanish titles to supplement your classroom library. Spanish English Titles, See Pages 38–61 Titles Spanish Titles, See Pages 62–67 Available A CASEL certified SEL Resource that provides Teacher Guides for select Novels. For more information, go to www.Savvas.com/ReadingwithRelevance 3 LitBro581L1108myP_Novels_final.indd 3 4/8/20 3:05 PM 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. Depending on your objectives for the unit, as well as your students’ Suggestions needs, you may choose to integrate the trade book into the unit in several ways, including: for use • 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 eventually 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, 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 Suggested Learning Neil deGrasse Future of Space Media: Ellen Tyson on the Performance- Exploration Ochoa: Future of Performance Task Based Assessment novels 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 LitBro581L1108myP_Novels_final.indd 4 4/8/20 3:05 PM Reading Guide Suggested Novel Resources Templates are Available for You to Customize! 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 Suggested Novel 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, Resources include: 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 • Lesson Plan 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. • Test BACKGROUND In The Call of the Wild, Jack London vividly captures his firsthand experiences in the Yukon • Answer Key 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. TRADE BOOK LESSON PLAN: THE CALL OF THE WILD • Buck experience conflicts with his own kind, with humans, with nature, and with his own instincts. Consider the external conflicts Buck faces as he struggles against nature and against other characters. Also, consider the internal conflicts he experiences within his mind. VOCABULARY • PLOT is the sequence of events in a story. Each event results from a previous one and then causes the 2. (a) What conflicts does Buck face in the 1. haughty adj. showing great pride in next event. Conflicts in the plot cause tension. This tension builds until it reaches a high point of Northland? oneself and contempt for others; arrogant suspense, called the climax. Look for the climax in The Call of the Wild. 2. sullenly adv. resentfully; gloomily (b) What things does he do in order to COMPARING AND CONTRASTING CHARACTERS TRADE BOOK LESSON PLAN: THE CALL OF THE WILD 3. bolted v. swallowed hungrily • survive? means figuring out ways that characters are alike 4. sinister adj. wicked; evil and ways that(c) Sothey far, are how different. has this newDoing setting this can help you predict which characters will have conflicts. 5. gravely adv. seriously; somberly It can also helpinfluenced you understand the novel’s plotthe ?author’s insights about life. 6. toiled v. worked hard and continuously • REALISM 3. isIn a yourliterary own movement words, explain in which the “law people of and their lives are shown as realistically as 7. primitive adj. of the earliest times; original possible. Realismclub and emphasizes fang.” the harsh realities of ordinary daily life. CHAPTER 5 8. treacherously adv. disloyally 3. What does Thornton do after Buck wins 4.