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The Importance of Literature myPerspectives Texas ensures that students read and understand a variety As individuals we are the sum of the stories that we tell ourselves about of complex texts across multiple genres such as poetry, realistic fiction, ourselves—about love, about fear, about life, about longing. We are adventure stories, historical fiction, mysteries, humor, myths, fantasy, drawn to those stories outside of classrooms because those stories tell us science fiction, and short stories. something about ourselves. They affirm something inside of us. They help These texts have been carefully selected to enable students to encounter us learn more about ourselves and others. That to me is a part of a larger multi-genre texts that are traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse. humanity’s education. It’s understood that part of learning is about learning to become more human, what it means to be a part of the human family. And there’s no discipline that’s more central to that enterprising education Student Edition Thematic Units than the teaching of literature. Grade 6...... 4 As long as we continue to live and grow and struggle on the planet, we’re going to be drawn to these stories, and they provide a perfect context for Grade 7...... 8 us to do two crucial things that are important in education: One is to help young people learn more about themselves and be proud of who they are. Grade 8...... 12 The other is to learn about others and understand that differences can be powerful and positive and that we’re not so different as we think we are. —Dr. Ernest Morrell, myPerspectives Texas Author Multi-Genre List

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ERNEST MORRELL, PH.D. is the Coyle Professor and the Literacy Education Director at Notre Dame Center, English and Africana Studies Departments Fellow, Institute for Educational Initiatives.

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REINFORCE... Comprehension Strategy Make Inferences

ESSENTIAL POINT Remember that you need to consider both the text and the illustrations in all panels in the strip when making inferences—otherwise, you might Cartoon 1: Ghosts Student Edition miss the joke. Grade 6, Calvin and Hobbes Invite students to explain the jokes in “Ghosts” TAKE NOTES and “Do You Like Her?” by making inferences. TEKS 5.F myPerspectives Digital Thematic Units REALISTIC SHORT STORY AUDIO ANNOTATE

DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION The Sound of INTERACTIVITY DOWNLOAD Summer Running Classic BL BELOW LEVEL Read “Ghosts” aloud Ray Bradbury Concept Vocabulary to students, without having them look at SUSPENDED If groups are struggling to define the word suspended in paragraph 1, instruct the illustrations. Then, have students read them to use context to define it: First, his feet suspended; then, they rushed. Guide students to the comic and study the illustrations. When understand these are opposite actions. students explain the joke (that Calvin and POSSIBLE RESPONSE: Hobbes freaked themselves out over the Suspended means “temporarily paused.” myPerspectives Digital

SCIENCE FEATURE possibility of ghosts and have been awake all AUDIO ANNOTATE night), guide them to realize that they needed INTERACTIVITY DOWNLOAD the text and the illustrations to make their Grade 6, The Sound of Summer Running BACKGROUND AUDIO inferences and to understand the humor of Ray Bradbury is well-known for his award-winning science-fiction

novels. This selection, from a novel entitled Dandelion Wine, is a ANNOTATE the comic strip. departure from that genre. The novel is based loosely on Bradbury’s own boyhood summers in the 1920s and 1930s. In this story, he attempts to capture the excitement a boy feels about starting each summer with a new pair of shoes. OL ON LEVEL/SUPPORT After reading 1 ate that night, going home from the show with his mother and Use a digital dictionary, or indicate another strategy you used that father and his brother Tom, Douglas saw the tennis shoes in “Ghosts” aloud, invite students to summarize L helped you determine meaning. the bright store window. He glanced quickly away, but his ankles suspended (suh SPEHND the story it tells, in words and pictures. Explain, were seized, his feet suspended, then rushed. The earth spun; the ihd) v. shop awnings slammed their canvas wings overhead with the MEANING: You may not have realized it, but in order to thrust of his body running. His mother and father and brother Creature Comforts: walked quietly on both sides of him. Douglas walked backward, summarize the comic strip, you had to make watching the tennis shoes in the midnight window left behind. 2 “It was a nice movie,” said Mother. Three Biology-Based Tips inferences. Make sure students notice that Cartoon3 2:Douglas Do murmured,You Like “ItContemporary was. Her? . . .” 4 It was June and long past time for buying the special shoes that for Builders The Genzyme Center atrium they used the pictures and text to do so. were quiet as a summer rain falling on the walks. June and the boasts gardens and a chandelier earth full of raw power and everything everywhere in motion. The Mary Beth Cox that diffuses natural light. grass was still pouring in from the country, surrounding the TAKE or its affiliates. Inc., Education, © Pearson All rights reserved. NOTESsidewalks, stranding the houses. Any moment the town would 5 capsize1, go down and leave not a stir2 in the clover and weeds. AL ABOVE LEVEL Have students read “Do BACKGROUND Grade 7, Creature Comforts 1. capsize (KAP syz) v. become overturned. Nature is full of examples of amazing solutions to the challenges of AUDIO You Like Her?” and explain the humor. Ask, 2. stir (stur) n. very small movement. survival. From wings that are strong and light to shelters that are comfortable and cool, the creativity of nature results in designs that ANNOTATE In addition to words and images, how does The Sound of work incredibly well. They are also, often, beautiful. These natural solutions inspire people, who are also seeking ways to solve difficult problems. This feature explores how architects, engineers, and other the font, or type, assist in conveying the joke? designers working today look to nature for inspiration. DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION ELPS 2.C.3 LIT20_SE06_TX_U01_B4_SEL.indd 95 EL ENGLISH LEARNERS 2/13/18 5:09 PM Lead them to notice that the cartoonist uses 1 uman architects are the new kids on the block. 2 Basic Vocabulary Use the audio of paragraph 1 of “He glanced (quickly) away.” Play the audio and Advanced Display basic words from thebiophilia reading. an appreciation 3 They’ve been shaping their surroundings for only “The Sound of Summer Running” to help students have students supply the missingH word. Then, Play the audio and have students repeatfor sentenceslife and the living world bold words, capital letters, and a different a few thousand years. Other life forms have done so for learn basic vocabulary they hear during classroom discuss the meaning of the word and the sentence. that use the words. Then, have students create quite a bit longer. Life first appeared on planet Earth instruction and interactions. Consider using these Intermediate Ask students to name some common sentences using the words and read thembiomorphism aloud. using the forms, font to express Calvin’s growing agitation over four billion years ago. Over that staggering stretch of words: show, bright, quickly, earth, and midnight. English words they use daily. Display and read basic Advanced High Play the audio and haveshapes students or patterns of living Hobbes’s questioning. Beginning Ask students to say some common words from the selection and discusstime, creaturestheir meaning. turned thispronounce moist rocky and planetwrite basic into wordsa in thethings selection. English words they use daily. Display basic words Have students repeat the words.home. Play the They audio adapted and to Havediverse students environments. create sentences They that use the basic

from the selection and add others. Then, display have students repeat the or its affiliates. Inc., Education, © Pearson All rights reserved. sentences.coped with fluctuating conditions.words they Theyfound endured and then tricky read the sentencesbiomimicry systems based on sentence frames based on the reading, such as: survival situations. So italoud. behooves human builders to actual living processes borrow what they can from the B’s. Not from the hive- 30 UNIT 1 • GROWING UP building insects, though they too are instructive. The B’s are three biology-based ideas: biophilia, biomorphism,The Sound of and Summer biomimicry. Running 95

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LIT20_TE06_TX_U01_B4_SEL.indd 95 2/13/18 10:47 PM DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION LIT20_SE07_TX_U04_B3_SEL.indd 467 BL BELOW LEVEL 2/9/18 12:03 PM LIT20_SE06_TX_U01_A2_M_SEL.indd 30 EL ENGLISH LEARNERS 2/13/18 4:57 PM Notetaking To help Background/Introduction students understand the Cultural Context Review the comic strips and point outorganization Hobbes, of ideas and the “The tiger. Company The of Nature” information in the science “Living Shapes and Patterns” concept of imaginary friends might be unfamiliar to somefeature, students.suggest that they Explain to students that Hobbes is Calvin’s stuffed tiger and imaginarycreate a graphic friend. organizer Ask “Sustainable students Structures” if in their notebooks to “Thoughtful Design” summarize content as they know what an imaginary friend is, and ask them what term, if any,Acknowledgements/Works they use to Cited refer to imaginary friends in their first language. Encouragethey read. students to talk about their own knowledge of other imaginary friends in movies, TV shows, or literature. Creature Comforts: Three Biology-Based Tips for Builders 467

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PRINT PRINT NON DIGITAL NON DIGITAL SELECTION TITLE AUTHOR GENRE MEDIA FICTION LEXILE AND SELECTION TITLE AUTHOR GENRE MEDIA FICTION LEXILE AND FICTION ONLY FICTION ONLY DIGITAL DIGITAL GRADE 6 UNIT 1: GROWING UP PEER-GROUP LEARNING Poetry Collection ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What are some of the challenges and triumphs of growing up? • Raymie Nightingale (790L) by Kate DiCamillo WRITING MODE: Nonfiction Narrative • Bud, Not Buddy (950L) by Christopher Paul Curtis Predators Linda Hogan Poem • NP • Mentor Text: Wagon Train at Dusk Personal Narrative 740 • • The Naming of Cats T.S. Eliot Poem NP WHOLE-CLASS LEARNING • • Nikita Alberto Ríos Poem NP from Brown Girl, Dreaming Jacqueline Woodson Memoir • NP • • • Gallery of Calvin and Hobbes The Tale of the Hummingbird Pura Belpré Myth 740 Bill Watterson Media: Comic Strip • • Comics • • • Black Cowboy, Wild Horses Julius Lester Biography 710 The Sand Castle Alma Luz Villanueva Science Fiction • 740 • • • INDEPENDENT LEARNING PEER-GROUP LEARNING A Blessing James Wright Poetry NP from Bad Boy Walter Dean Myers Memoir • 1000 • • • The Secret Life of the Dog BBC Video Media: Video The Moth Presents: Aleeza Kazmi Media: Oral Storytelling • • • • • • Comparing Within Genre All the Pretty Ponies Oscar Casares Reflective Essay • 1220 • Prince Francis Roddy Doyle Fiction • 240 • The Girl Who Gets Gifts From Birds Katy Sewall Informational Text • 830 • Pet Therapy: How Animals and The Sound of Summer Running Ray Bradbury Fiction 860 Julie Rovner Informational Text 1190 • • Humans Heal Each Other • • INDEPENDENT LEARNING GRADE 6 UNIT 3: TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY from Peter Pan J.M. Barrie Fantasy • 800 • ESSENTIAL QUESTION: Is technology helpful or harmful to society? • Sky Jumpers (860L) by Peggy Eddleman WRITING MODE: Argument • A Wrinkle in Time (740L) by Madeline L’Engle Poetry Collection Mentor Text: That’s Not Progress! Argument 910 Oranges Gary Soto Poem • NP • • • WHOLE-CLASS LEARNING I Was a Skinny Tomboy Kid Alma Luz Villanueva Poem • NP • Feathered Friend Arthur C. Clarke Science Fiction • 1100 • The Boy Nobody Knew Faith Ringgold Personal Essay 820 • • Comparing Across Genre Eleven Sandra Cisneros Realistic Fiction • 980 • The Biometric Body Kathiann M. Kowalski Informational Text • 970 • Raymond’s Run Toni Cade Bambara Realistic Fiction • 1200 • Biometrics Are Not Better Reuben Lorre Argument • 1240 • GRADE 6 UNIT 2: NATURAL ALLIES The Internet of Things IBM Social Media Media: Video • • • ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How do animals and people interact? • The Magician’s Elephant (730L) by Kate DiCamillo PEER-GROUP LEARNING WRITING MODE: Informational Essay • Where the Red Fern Grows (700L) by Wilson Rawls Is Our Gain Also Our Loss? Cailin Loesch Reflective Essay 1180 Mentor Text: Reading Buddies Informational Essay • 890 • • • WHOLE-CLASS LEARNING The Black Hole of Technology Leena Khan Persuasive Essay • 980 • from My Life With the Chimpanzees Jane Goodall Autobiography • 860 • The Fun They Had Isaac Asimov Science Fiction • 750 • Comparing Within Genre Mexico’s Abandoned Railways and Ivan Puig and Andrés Media: Photo Essay the SEFT-1 Padilla Domene • • • How Smart Are Animals? Dorothy Hinshaw Patent Nonfiction 1110 • • Bored . . . and Brilliant? A Challenge NPR Media: Podcast to Disconnect From Your Phone • • • So What Is a Primate? Faith Hickman Brynie Nonfiction • 970 •

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Poetry Collection ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What drives people to explore? • Navigating Early (790L) by Clare Vanderpool WRITING MODE: Research All Watched Over By Machines • Journey to the Center of the Earth (450L) by Jules Verne Richard Brautigan Poem NP of Loving Grace • • Mentor Text: What on Earth is Left Informational Text 950 to Explore? Sonnet, Without Salmon Sherman Alexie Poem NP • • • • WHOLE-CLASS LEARNING Teen Researchers Defend Media Sumathi Reddy News Article 1370 Multitasking • • from A Long Way Home Saroo Brierley Memoir • 1030 • BBC Science Club: All About narrated by Dara Ó GRADE 6 UNIT 4: THE POWER OF Media: Video Exploration Briain • • • IMAGINATION • Bridge to Terabithia (810L) by Katherine Paterson ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What is the purpose of imagination? PEER-GROUP LEARNING • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (810L) by Roald Dahl WRITING MODE: Fictional Narrative Ada and the Thinking Machines Kathleen Krull Biography 960 Mentor Text: The Great Universal • • Fiction 670 Undo • • The King of Mazy May Jack London Adventure Story 1170 WHOLE-CLASS LEARNING • • Comparing Across Genres The Phantom Tollbooth, Act I & II Susan Nanus Drama • NP • from Sacajawea Joseph Bruchac Historical Fiction 790 PEER-GROUP LEARNING • • from The Misadventures of Don Miguel de Cervantes, Retelling 940 from Lewis and Clark Nick Bertozzi Media: Graphic Novel Quixote retold by Tom Lathrop • • • • • Comparing Within Genre INDEPENDENT LEARNING Jabberwocky from Through the To the Top of Everest Samantha Larson Blog Post 1040 Lewis Carroll Narrative Poem NP Looking Glass • • • • from Shipwreck at the Bottom of Media Connection: Alice in Jennifer Armstrong Nonfiction Narrative 1110 Media: Video the World Wonderland • • • • • Barrington Irving, Pilot and National Geographic Magazine Article 1110 The Mock Turtle’s Song Lewis Carroll Poem • NP • Educator • • The Legacy of Arctic Explorer James Mills Informational Article 1240 The Importance of Imagination Esha Chhabra Reflective Essay • 890 • Matthew Henson • • Author Dan Jolley; INDEPENDENT LEARNING The Hero Twins Media: Graphic Novel Illustrator David Witt • • • from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum Fantasy • 1030 • Poetry Collection Our Wreath of Rose Buds Corinne Poem • NP • Fantasy Gwendolyn Bennett Poem • NP •

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GRADE 7 UNIT 1: CROSSING GENERATIONS GRADE 7 UNIT 2: IMAGINING THE FUTURE ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What can one generation learn from another? • The Fourteenth Goldfish(550L) by Jennifer L. Holm ESSENTIAL QUESTION: Should humanity’s future lie among the stars? • MiNRS (620L) by Kevin Sylvester WRITING MODE: • Esperanza Rising (750L) by Pam Muñoz Ryan WRITING MODE: Argument • James and the Giant Peach (870L) by Roald Dahl Mentor Text: Grounded Personal Narrative • 640 • Mentor Text: Leaving Main Street Argument • 1060 • WHOLE-CLASS LEARNING WHOLE-CLASS LEARNING Compare Across Genres Two Kinds from The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan Realistic Short Story 870 • • Dark They Were and Ray Bradbury Fiction 490 Golden-Eyed • • The Case of the Disappearing Words Alice Andre-Clark Feature Article • 1130 • Dark They Were, and Michael McDonough Media: Radio Play PEER-GROUP LEARNING Golden-Eyed • • • Tutors Teach Seniors New Jennifer Ludden Human Interest Story 1020 PEER-GROUP LEARNING High-Tech Tricks • • Poetry Collection Media Connection: Cyber-Seniors Media: Documentary • • • Science-Fiction Cradlesong C. S. Lewis Poem • NP • Compare Across Genres First Men on the Moon J. Patrick Lewis Poem NP from Mom & Me & Mom Maya Angelou Memoir • 610 • • • Science-Fiction Maya Angelou with Media: Television The Last Dog Katherine Paterson 820 Learning to Love My Mother Adventure • • Michael Maher Interview Video • • • Compare Within Genre Mica and Myla Mother-Daughter Drawings Media: Image Gallery Hendricks • • • Mars Can Wait. Oceans Can’t. Amitai Etzioni Persuasive Essay • 1400 • Poetry Collection from Packing for Mars Mary Roach Persuasive Essay 1020 Abuelita Magic Pat Mora Poem NP • • • • INDEPENDENT LEARNING Mother to Son Langston Hughes Poem NP Future of Space Exploration Could • • Nola Taylor Redd News Article 1250 See Humans on Mars, Alien Planets • • To James Frank Horne Poem NP Media Connection: 100-Year Media: Promotional • • Starship Video INDEPENDENT LEARNING • • • Danger! This Mission to Mars Could Maggie Koerth-Baker Magazine Article 1290 Poetry Collection Bore You to Death! • • Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Future Lineage Margaret Walker Poem NP Neil deGrasse Tyson and • • of U.S. Space Exploration After Interview 930 Keith Wagstaff Curiosity • • Family Grace Paley Poem NP • • Ellen Ochoa: Director, Johnson Ellen Ochoa Media: Video Biography “Gotcha Day” Isn’t a Cause for Space Center Sophie Johnson Opinion Piece 1090 • • • Celebration • • Bridging the Generational Divide GRADE 7 UNIT 3: TRANSFORMATIONS Between a Football Father and a John McCormick Digital Storytelling 1120 ESSENTIAL QUESTION: Can people really change? • Lost in the Sun (700L) by Lisa Graff Soccer Son • • WRITING MODE: Short Story • Stargirl (590L) by Jerry Spinelli Water Names Lan Samantha Chang Realistic Fiction • 900 • Mentor Text: The Golden Windows Laura E. Richards Short Story • • WHOLE-CLASS LEARNING An Hour With Abuelo Judith Ortiz Cofer Realistic Fiction 840 • • Compare Across Genres Drama based on the A Christmas Carol: Scrooge novel by Charles Drama NP and Marley, Act I & Act II Dickens • • from A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens Fiction • •

Recommended novels align to the unit theme. Lexiles are indicated if available. NP= Non Prose. 8 Includes a Study Guide and TEKS-aligned activities. 9 Student Edition Thematic Units: Grade 7 Student Edition Thematic Units: Grade 7

PRINT PRINT NON DIGITAL NON DIGITAL SELECTION TITLE AUTHOR GENRE MEDIA FICTION LEXILE AND SELECTION TITLE AUTHOR GENRE MEDIA FICTION LEXILE AND FICTION ONLY FICTION ONLY DIGITAL DIGITAL INDEPENDENT LEARNING Media Connection: from Scrooge Media: Video • • • from My Side of the Mountain Jean Craighead George Adventure Story 820 PEER-GROUP LEARNING • • Thank You, M’am Langston Hughes Realistic Short Story • 800 • from An American Childhood Annie Dillard Reflective Essay • 1050 • A Young Tinkerer Builds a Windmill, Learning Rewires the Brain Alison Pearce Stevens Science Journalism Sarah Childress Feature Article 1020 • • Electrifying a Nation • • Compare Within Genre from Of Wolves and Men Barry Lopez Nature Writing 1010 Trying to Name What • • Naomi Shihab Nye Poem Doesn’t Change • • GRADE 7 UNIT 5: FACING ADVERSITY I Myself Ángel González Poem ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How do we overcome obstacles? • The Tequila Worm (830L) by Viola Canales • • WRITING MODE: Informational • The Cay (860L) by Theodore Taylor INDEPENDENT LEARNING Mentor Text: Against the Odds Informational Essay 800 Little Things Are Big Jesús Colón Reflective Essay 1150 • • • • WHOLE-CLASS LEARNING The Story of Victor d’Aveyron, the Eloise Montalban Historical Narrative 980 Compare Across Genres Wild Child • • Black Sunday: The Storm That Erin Blakemore Nonfiction 1060 A Retrieved Reformation O. Henry Realistic Fiction • 850 • Gave Us the Dust Bowl • • The Grandfather and His Little from The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck Fiction 600 Leo Tolstoy Fable 870 Grandson • • • • Media Connection: Media: Documentary The Dust Bowl Videoo GRADE 7 UNIT 4: LEARNING FROM NATURE • • • ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What is the relationship between people and nature? • Hoot (760L) by Carl Hiaasen High School Teammates Carry On Tom Rinaldi Sports Profile 850 WRITING MODE: Research • Hatchet (1020L) by Gary Paulsen • • PEER-GROUP LEARNING Mentor Text: Rethinking the Wild Research-Based Essay 960 • • Compare Across Genres WHOLE-CLASS LEARNING The Circuit Francisco Jiménez Fiction 730 from Silent Spring Rachel Carson Descriptive Essay 1080 • • • • How This Son of Migrant Farm Jose Hernández and Nonfiction 860 Compare Within Genre Workers Became an Astronaut Octavio Blanco • • How Grandmother Spider Michael J. Caduto and Fiction 600 A Work in Progress Aimee Mullins Oral History 930 Stole the Sun Joseph Bruchac • • • • How Music Came to the World Dianne De Las Casas Fiction • 810 • from The Story of My Life Helen Keller Autobiography • 970 • Media Connection: How Helen Helen Keller with Anne PEER-GROUP LEARNING Media: Video Interview Keller Learned to Talk Sullivan Poetry Collection • • • INDEPENDENT LEARNING Turtle Watchers Linda Hogan Poem NP “Four Skinny Trees” from The House • • Sandra Cisneros Lyric Poetry NP on Mango Street • • Jaguar Francisco X. Alarcón Poem • NP • The Girl Who Fell From the Sky Juliane Koepcke Journalism • 790 • The Sparrow Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem NP • • Profile: Malala Yousafzai BBC Biography 1330 Urban Farming Is Growing a • • Hillary Schwei Media: Photo Gallery Greener Future from Facing the Lion: Growing Up Joseph Lemasolai • • • Memoir 800 Maasai on the African Savanna Lekuton Creature Comforts: Three Biology- • • Mary Beth Cox Science Feature 840 Based Tips for Builders • • Rikki-tikki-tavi Rudyard Kipling Short Story 1010 Shinichi Hoshi • • He—y, Come On Ou—t! translated by Stanleigh Magical Realism 870 Jones • •

Recommended novels align to the unit theme. Lexiles are indicated if available. NP= Non Prose. 10 Includes a Study Guide and TEKS-aligned activities. 11 Student Edition Thematic Units: Grade 8 Student Edition Thematic Units: Grade 8

PRINT PRINT NON DIGITAL NON DIGITAL SELECTION TITLE AUTHOR GENRE MEDIA FICTION LEXILE AND SELECTION TITLE AUTHOR GENRE MEDIA FICTION LEXILE AND FICTION ONLY FICTION ONLY DIGITAL DIGITAL WHOLE-CLASS LEARNING GRADE 8 UNIT 1: RITES OF PASSAGE Comparing Across Genre ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What are some challenges of growing up? • Ghost (730L) by Jason Reynolds WRITING MODE: Narrative Nonfiction • The Outsiders (750L) by S. E. Hinton The Diary of Anne Frank, Frances Goodrich and Drama NP Act I & Act II Albert Hackett • • Mentor Text: Red Roses Personal Narrative 560 Frank Family and World War II • • Media: Infographic WHOLE-CLASS LEARNING Timeline • • • Virginia Driving Hawk PEER-GROUP LEARNING The Medicine Bag Realistic Short Story 920 Sneve • • from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Anne Frank Diary 1010 Media Connection: Apache Girl’s Young Girl • • National Geographic Media: Video Rite of Passage • • • from Acceptance Speech for the Elie Wiesel Speech 770 Nobel Peace Prize • • The Banana Tree James Berry Adventure Story • 810 • from Maus Art Spiegelman Media: Graphic Novel Comparing Within Genre • • • INDEPENDENT LEARNING Bird Liz Berry Poem • NP • Saving the Children Bob Simon Television Transcript • 740 • Ode to Teachers Pat Mora Poem NP • • Irena Sendler—Rescuer of the Chana Kroll Informative Article 1130 PEER-GROUP LEARNING Children of Warsaw • • Henry Wadsworth Quiet Resistance from Courageous from The Song of Hiawatha Epic Poem NP Ann Byers Historical Article 910 Longfellow • • Teen Resisters • • Remembering a Devoted Keeper of Comparing Within Genre Moni Basu News Article 950 Anne Frank’s Legacy • • You Are the Electric Boogaloo Geoff Herbach Blog 760 I’ll Go Fetch Her Tomorrow from B. Emden with Marcel Autobiographical • • 800 Hidden Like Anne Frank Prins Account • • Just Be Yourself! Stephanie Pellegrin Blog • 680 • GRADE 8 UNIT 3: WHAT MATTERS The Setting Sun and the Rolling Charles Mungoshi Realistic Short Story 800 ESSENTIAL QUESTION: When is it right to take a stand? • Among the Hidden (800L) by Margaret Peterson Haddix World • • WRITING MODE: Argument • Girl in the Blue Coat (720L) by Monica Hesse Media Connection: Stories of Hear Africa Foundation Media: Video Zimbabwean Women • • • Mentor Text: Freedom of the Press? Argument • 1000 • INDEPENDENT LEARNING WHOLE-CLASS LEARNING From I Know Why the Caged Bird Maya Angelou Autobiography 1030 Sings • • The Horned Toad Gerald Haslam Realistic Short Story • 980 • Quinceañara Birthday Bash Comparing Within Genre Preserves Tradition, Marks Passage Natalie St. John News Article 1290 • • Three Cheers for the Nanny to Womanhood Sarah Conly Nonfiction 1180 State • • The Winter Hibiscus Minfong Ho Realistic Fiction • 990 • Ban the Ban! Sidney Anne Stone Nonfiction • 930 • Childhood and Poetry Pablo Neruda Reflective Essay • 910 • Soda’s a Problem, But…, Karin Klein Nonfiction • 1250 • Media Connection: NY Judge NPR Media: Radio Broadcast GRADE 8 UNIT 2: LEARNING FROM HISTORY Overturns Bloomberg’s Soda Ban ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What can we learn from the past? • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (810L) by Betty Smith • • • WRITING MODE: Informational Essay • The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club (970L) by Phillip Hoose Mentor Text The Grand Mosque Informational Text 990 of Paris • •

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PRINT PRINT NON DIGITAL NON DIGITAL SELECTION TITLE AUTHOR GENRE MEDIA FICTION LEXILE AND SELECTION TITLE AUTHOR GENRE MEDIA FICTION LEXILE AND FICTION ONLY FICTION ONLY DIGITAL DIGITAL PEER-GROUP LEARNING INDEPENDENT LEARNING Comparing Within Genre Is Personal Intelligence Important? John D. Mayer, Ph.D. Argument • 1230 • Briar Rose Brothers Grimm Fiction 860 Why is Emotional Intelligence • • Divya Parekh Blog 1120 Important for Teens? • • Awake Tanith Lee Fiction 880 The More You Know, the Smarter • • Jim Vega Informational Essay 1190 You Are? • • Words Do Not Pay Chief Joseph Persuasive Speech 830 • • From The Future of the Mind Michio Kaku Informational Essay 1190 The Bystander Effect: Why You • • Courtney Lindstrand Advice Column 1090 Don’t Stand Up When You Should • • GRADE 8 UNIT 5: PUSHING BOUNDARIES INDEPENDENT LEARNING ESSENTIAL QUESTION: Why are inventions necessary? • Uglies (770L) by Scott Westerfeld WRITING MODE: Short Story • The Time Machine (1070L) by H. G. Wells Translating Grandfather’s House E. J. Vega Lyric Poem NP • • Mentor Text: One Weekend in the Fiction Real World • • from Through My Eyes Ruby Bridges Memoir • 860 • WHOLE-CLASS LEARNING The Scholarship Jacket Marta Salinas Realistic Fiction • 760 • Uncle Marcos Isabel Allende Magical Realism • 1420 • from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on Ann Petry Biography 1000 the Underground Railroad • • To Fly from Space Chronicles Neil DeGrasse Tyson Historical Essay • 1220 • from Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence Doris Pilkington Memoir 1160 • • Media Connection: When I Look Up Neil DeGrasse Tyson Media: Video • • • GRADE 8 UNIT 4: HUMAN INTELLIGENCE PEER-GROUP LEARNING ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How do we know what we know? • The Maze Runner (770L) by James Dashner Comparing Across Genre WRITING MODE: Informational—Research • A Mango-Shaped Space (770L) by Wendy Mass Nikola Tesla: Greatest Inventor Vicky Baez Nonfiction 860 Mentor Text: The Human Brain Informational • 1120 • of All? • • From The Invention Samantha Hunt Fiction 880 WHOLE-CLASS LEARNING of Everything Else • • Technology Feature Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes Science Fiction 830 Welcome to Origami City Nick D’Alto • • Article • • A Computer in Your Head? Dr. Eric Chudler Science Feature 1020 Media Connection: Buildings That BBC Media: Documentary • • Can Change Over Time • • • Media Connection: Building Your Media: Science Article BBC retold by Josephine Brain Video Icarus and Daedalus Myth 1100 • • • Preston Peabody • • PEER-GROUP LEARNING INDEPENDENT LEARNING from Blue Nines and Red Words Daniel Tammet Memoir 1200 Fermented Cow Dung Air Freshener from Born on a Blue Day Kimberley Mok Technology Article 1460 • • Wins Two Students Top Science Prize • • Comparing Across Genres Scientists Build Robot That Runs, Rodrique Ngowi Technology Article 1380 Call It “Cheetah” • • Gut Math Nonfiction • 1030 • Sounds of a Glass Armonica William Zeitler Media: Video The Theory of Multiple Howard Gardner Media: Infographic • • • Intelligences • • • from The Time Machine H. G. Wells Science Fiction 830 Two Entries from an Encyclopedia Staff Writer Reference Materials NP • • of Logic • •

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NOTEBOOK Learning to Love My Mother Multimodal Maya Angelou with Michael Maher REINFORCE... Comprehension Strategy Evaluate Details to Determine Key Ideas

ESSENTIAL POINT As you listen to the interview, some details will remind you of events in the author’s memoir, and other details will give new information. Note any that seem significant. Ask students to pause the video and make notes about important details. TEKS 5.GMulti-Genre List DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION

BL BELOWmyPerspectives LEVEL DigitalRemind students that INTERVIEWthey can rewindAUDIO and replayANNOTATE the video to help them jot down details accurately. Suggest INTERACTIVITY DOWNLOAD How This Son ofstudents follow this process: BACKGROUND Grade 7, Learning to Migrant Farm Workers When Maya Angelou was three years old, she and her brother were sent to live • Watch—andREINFORCE... listen carefully to—the video. Love My Mother Became an with their grandmother. Their mother, Vivian Baxter, was not ready to be tied • Pause the videoComprehension whenever youStrategy hear down with a family. Ten years later, the two children returned to live with their something interesting. mother. More than 70 years later, Angelou wrote about this transition in her Summarize Astronaut• memoir Mom & Me & Mom. In this interview, she tells Michael Maher some of Jot down the detailESSENTIAL and POINT the Whentime you code. Relevant José Hernández summarize, you tell the main ideas or events the lessons she learned from her experiences. and Octavio Blanco • After viewingin a passagethe video, in your own revisit words. the A summary time codes and evaluateincludes only thethe most details important to details. determine You can summarize part or all of a text. key ideas. TAKE NOTES As you watch and listen, take notes to record key ideas. Have students summarize paragraphs 1–3. TEKS 6.D OL ON LEVEL/EXTEND Ask students to explain to theirDIFFERENTIATED groups how they INSTRUCTION decided BL BELOW LEVEL Support students who whether a detailstruggle was with importantsummarizing. Model or interestinghow to myPerspectives Digital but unimportant,summarize giving paragraph an 1.example For example, ofsay, each. MAGICAL REALISM AUDIO ANNOTATE Since the interview is with Hernández, I do not need to retell the part about “millions of children.” I also know I should use my own INTERACTIVITY DOWNLOAD AL ABOVE words.LEVEL So, I canEncourage summarize paragraph groups 1 as to note details in“José the Hernández interviewer’s wanted to questionsgo to space, but and Grade 7, How This Son of Migrant he faced obstacles.” Then, I can read on to CLOSE READ comments thatlook underscore for examples of obstacles.the importance Have students of Uncle Marcos BACKGROUND Remind students to focus on Farm Workers identify these obstacles in paragraph 2. Help José Hernández was hard atClara’s work, hoeing mental a rowimage of sugarof her beets uncle. in a (Youfield, may want AUDIOthe interviewee’s key ideas. Ask students, What from when he heard the news: Theto firstprint Hispanic copies American of the Close-Read had been chosen Guide:Became Fiction an Astronaut students summarize paragraph 2 in a single The House to travel into space. Hernández,for students who was ato teenager use.) Model at the thetime, Close had Read of ANNOTATEwords and phrasessentence. stand out? Why? been fascinated by science sinceparagraph childhood. 1 using In this the interview, following Hernández think-aloud of the Spirits talks with reporter Octavio Blancoformat. about Possible how heresponses went from to working questions on on the OL ON LEVEL/SUPPORT Help students “the California circuit” to workingstudent on page the International are included. Space Station. restate the main idea in each paragraph. Then, Isabel Allende have them use the main ideas to write a one- 1 illions of kids dream of going into space. But José ANNOTATE: As I read paragraph 1, I notice and or two-sentence summary of the first three Hernández made that dream a reality—and he did so translated by M Learningmark details to Love describing My Mother Uncle Marcos’s 87 pirate-like paragraphs of the text. against incredible odds. Magda Bogin mustache and his “sharklike smile.” 2 As the son of Mexican migrant farm workers, his education was AL ABOVE LEVEL Have students discuss constantlyDiverse interrupted asand QUESThis familyION: followedI think the changingwriter is tryingcrops. to show with their group how summarizing while © Pearson Education, Inc., or its affiliates. Inc., Education, © Pearson All rights reserved. Often, they would spend thatDecember he has through a unique, February memorable in Mexico. look. reading proved helpful.

3 Hernández and his siblings would home school themselves with MulticulturalCONCLUDE: The effect of these details is that I LIT20_SE07_TX_U01_B3_SEL.inddDIFFERENTIATED 87 INSTRUCTION assignments from their American teachers during TEKS those months.2.I.51/22/18 8:25 PM Grade 8, Uncle Marcos EL ENGLISH LEARNERSwant to read more about this exciting, unusual But with all of the constant interruptions, Hernández didn't BACKGROUND person. from the House“Uncle Marcos” of Spirits is from Isabel Allende’s first novel, which began as a become fluent in English until he was 12. Note Taking As students watch and listen to the the mainAUDIO idea. The second time, have students key ideas. Encourage them to share some of these letter to her 100-year-old grandfather. This excerpt draws on the Greek How This Son of Migrant Farm Workers Became an Astronaut 579 interview,myth challenge of Icarus and Daedalus. them Into the demonstrate myth, Daedalus invents listening a pair of take one-ANNOTATE or two-word notes on key details. ideas with the class. comprehensionwings and teaches of spoken his son how English to use them, by but takingwarns him notes.not to fly too close to the sun because the wax in the wings would melt. Icarus is Intermediate Play the interview two times for Advanced/Advanced High As students watch Explain totoo excitedstudents to listen, that and he taking drowns in notesthe ocean is after an his important wings melt. LIT20_SE07_TX_U05_B2_SEL.indd 579 2/14/18 9:35 PM way to improve comprehension. Their notes can be students. The first time, instruct them to listen for the interview, have them take notes on the most in the 1formt had of been words, two years phrases, since Clara sentences, had last seen her or Uncle pictures. the overall idea. The second time, have students important information. Then, have students I Marcos, but she remembered him very well. His was the only take notes on the most important information. evaluate the details to determine key ideas. Have 16 BeginningperfectlyPlay clear imagethe sheinterview retained from two her whole times childhood, for 17 and in order to describe him she did not need to consult the Then,CLOSE haveREAD students use their notes to determine students discuss these ideas in small groups. students.daguerreotype The first1 in time, the drawing instruct room that them showed to him listen dressed for as an explorer leaning on an old-fashioned double-barreled rifle ANNOTATE: In paragraph 1, mark details that show with his right foot on the neck of a Malaysian tiger, the same how Clara pictures her triumphant position in which she had seen the Virgin standing uncle, particularly his between plaster clouds and pallid angels at the main altar, one mustache and smile. foot on the vanquished devil. All Clara had to do to see her uncle QUESTION: Why does the How This Son of MigrantLearning Farm Workersto Love Became My an Mother Astronaut 579 87 was close her eyes and there he was, weather-beaten and thin, author use these with a pirate’s mustache through which his strange, sharklike descriptive details? smile peered out at her. It seemed impossible that he could be CONCLUDE: What is the inside that long black box that was lying in the middle of the

© Pearson Education, Inc., or its affiliates. All rights reserved. or its affiliates. Inc., Education, © Pearson effect of these details? courtyard. LIT20_TE07_TX_U05_B2_SEL.indd 579 3/8/18 3:15 AM 2 Each time Uncle Marcos had visited his sister Nívea’s home, he had stayed for several months, to the immense joy of his nieces LIT20_TE07_TX_U01_B3_SEL.inddand nephews,87 particularly Clara, causing a storm in which the 2/24/18 5:16 AM

1. daguerreotype (duh GEHR oh typ) n. early type of photograph. Uncle Marcos 569

EXPERT’S PERSPECTIVE KELLY GALLAGHER, M.ED. LIT20_SE08_TX_U05_A1_SEL.indd 569 2/16/18 10:13 AM Reading Reasons Students often ask, “Why should correct motivational tool; but together, many of • Build in an element of choice. I read?” Increasingly, teachers see students who these techniques send the message that reading is • Build in time to confer with students to discuss give up easily when confronted with challenging rewarding. their progress. reading material such as a biology textbook or • Give students access to high-interest reading • Establish reading goals. a state-mandated exam. They are unable, or material, which is provided in this program. unwilling, to tackle difficult text. How do teachers • Provide structure to the reading program by turn around this apathy? How do teachers shelter • Give students a time and place to read. logging the number of words and pages and the fragile adolescent readers and help them grow • Model the value of reading. Read with students, amount of time that students read. into people for whom reading matters? Building so they see you enjoying reading. Start a student reading motivation is complex, as there isn’t a single book club in school.

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Autobiography from My Life With the Chimpanzees Jane Goodall 2 Memoir from Bad Boy Walter Dean Myers 1

Adventure Story The King of Mazy May Jack London 5 Memoir from A Long Way Home Saroo Brierley 5

Argument That’s Not Progress! 3 Myth The Tale of the Hummingbird Pura Belpré 2

Argument Biometrics Are Not Better Reuben Lorre 3 Narrative Poem Jabberwocky from Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll 4

Biography Black Cowboy, Wild Horses Julius Lester 2 News Article 7-Year-Old Girl Gets a New Hand From 3-D Printer John Rogers 3

Biography Ada and the Thinking Machines Kathleen Krull 5 News Article High-Tech Backpacks Open World of Whales to Deaf Kids Associated Press 3

Blog Post To the Top of Everest Samantha Larson 5 News Article Teen Researchers Defend Media Multitasking Sumathi Reddy 3

Drama The Phantom Tollbooth, Act I & II Susan Nanus 4 Nonfiction How Smart Are Animals? Dorothy Hinshaw Patent 2

Fantasy from Peter Pan J.M. Barrie 1 Nonfiction So What Is a Primate? Faith Hickman Brynie 2

Fantasy from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum 4 Nonfiction Narrative from Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World Jennifer Armstrong 5

Fantasy from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 4 Novel Excerpt The Shah of Blah from Haroun and the Sea of Stories Salman Rushdie 4

Fiction The Great Universal Undo 4 Personal Essay The Boy Nobody Knew Faith Ringgold 1

Fiction Prince Francis Roddy Doyle 1 Personal Narrative Wagon Train at Dusk 1

Fiction The Sound of Summer Running Ray Bradbury 1 Persuasive Essay The Black Hole of Technology Leena Khan 3

Historical Fiction from Sacajawea Joseph Bruchac 5 Poem Oranges Gary Soto 1

Informational Article The Legacy of Arctic Explorer Matthew Henson James Mills 5 Poem I Was a Skinny Tomboy Kid Alma Luz Villanueva 1

Informational Essay Reading Buddies 2 Poem Predators Linda Hogan 2

Informational Text The Girl Who Gets Gifts From Birds Katy Sewall 2 Poem The Naming of Cats T.S. Eliot 2

Informational Text Pet Therapy: How Animals and Humans Heal Each Other Julie Rovner 2 Poem Nikita Alberto Ríos 2

Informational Text The Biometric Body Kathiann M. Kowalski 3 Poem All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace Richard Brautigan 3

Informational Text What on Earth is Left to Explore? 5 Poem Sonnet, Without Salmon Sherman Alexie 3

Magazine Article Barrington Irving, Pilot and Educator National Geographic 5 Poem The Mock Turtle’s Song Lewis Carroll 4

Media: Comic Strip Gallery of Calvin and Hobbes Comics Bill Watterson 1 Poem Our Wreath of Rose Buds Corinne 4

Media: Graphic Novel from Lewis and Clark Nick Bertozzi 5 Poem Fantasy Gwendolyn Bennett 4

Author Dan Jolley; Illustrator Poetry A Blessing James Wright 2 Media: Graphic Novel The Hero Twins 5 David Witt Realistic Fiction Raymond’s Run Toni Cade Bambara 1 Media: Oral Storytelling The Moth Presents: Aleeza Kazmi 1 Realistic Fiction Eleven Sandra Cisneros 1 Ivan Puig and Andrés Padilla Media: Photo Essay Mexico’s Abandoned Railways and the SEFT-1 3 Domene Reflective Essay All the Pretty Ponies Oscar Casares 2

Media: Podcast Bored . . . and Brilliant? A Challenge to Disconnect From Your Phone NPR 3 Reflective Essay Is Our Gain Also Our Loss? Cailin Loesch 3

Media: Video The Secret Life of the Dog BBC Video 2 Reflective Essay The Importance of Imagination Esha Chhabra 4 Miguel de Cervantes, retold by Media: Video Media Connection: Alice in Wonderland 4 Retelling from The Misadventures of Don Quixote 4 Tom Lathrop Media: Video The Internet of Things IBM Social Media 3 Science Fiction The Sand Castle Alma Luz Villanueva 1 Media: Video BBC Science Club: All About Exploration narrated by Dara Ó Briain 5 Science Fiction Feathered Friend Arthur C. Clarke 3 Memoir from Brown Girl, Dreaming Jacqueline Woodson 1 Science Fiction The Fun They Had Isaac Asimov 3

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Adventure Story from My Side of the Mountain Jean Craighead George 4 Memoir from Mom & Me & Mom Maya Angelou 1

Argument Leaving Main Street 2 Memoir from Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton 5

Autobiography from The Story of My Life Helen Keller 5 Nature Writing from Of Wolves and Men Barry Lopez 4

Biography Profile: Malala Yousafzai BBC 5 News Article Future of Space Exploration Could See Humans on Mars, Alien Planets Nola Taylor Redd 2

Descriptive Essay from Silent Spring Rachel Carson 4 Nonfiction Black Sunday: The Storm That Gave Us the Dust Bowl Erin Blakemore 5

Bridging the Generational Divide Between a Football Father and a Jose Hernández and Octavio Digital Storytelling John McCormick 1 Nonfiction How This Son of Migrant Farm Workers Became an Astronaut 5 Soccer Son Blanco

Drama based on the novel by Opinion Piece “Gotcha Day” Isn’t a Cause for Celebration Sophie Johnson 1 Drama A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley, Act I & Act II 3 Charles Dickens Oral History A Work in Progress Aimee Mullins 5 Fable The Grandfather and His Little Grandson Leo Tolstoy 3 Personal Narrative Grounded 1 Feature Article The Case of the Disappearing Words Alice Andre-Clark 1 Persuasive Essay Mars Can Wait. Oceans Can’t. Amitai Etzioni 2 Feature Article A Young Tinkerer Builds a Windmill, Electrifying a Nation Sarah Childress 4 Persuasive Essay from Packing for Mars Mary Roach 2 Fiction Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed Ray Bradbury 2 Poem Abuelita Magic Pat Mora 1 Fiction from A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 3 Poem Mother to Son Langston Hughes 1 Michael J. Caduto and Joseph Fiction How Grandmother Spider Stole the Sun 4 Bruchac Poem To James Frank Horne 1

Fiction How Music Came to the World Dianne De Las Casas 4 Poem Lineage Margaret Walker 1

Fiction from The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 5 Poem Family Grace Paley 1

Fiction The Circuit Francisco Jiménez 5 Poem Science-Fiction Cradlesong C. S. Lewis 2

Historical Narrative The Story of Victor d’Aveyron, the Wild Child Eloise Montalban 3 Poem First Men on the Moon J. Patrick Lewis 2

Human Interest Story Tutors Teach Seniors New High-Tech Tricks Jennifer Ludden 1 Poem Trying to Name What Doesn’t Change Naomi Shihab Nye 3

Informational Essay Against the Odds 5 Poem I Myself Ángel González 3

Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Future of U.S. Space Exploration After Neil deGrasse Tyson and Keith Poem Turtle Watchers Linda Hogan 4 Interview 2 Curiosity Wagstaff Poem Jaguar Francisco X. Alarcón 4

Journalism The Girl Who Fell From the Sky Juliane Koepcke 5 Poem The Sparrow Paul Laurence Dunbar 4

Lyric Poetry “Four Skinny Trees” from The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros 5 Realistic Fiction Water Names Lan Samantha Chang 1

Magazine Article Danger! This Mission to Mars Could Bore You to Death! Maggie Koerth-Baker 2 Realistic Fiction An Hour With Abuelo Judith Ortiz Cofer 1 Shinichi Hoshi translated by Magical Realism He—y, Come On Ou—t! 4 Realistic Fiction A Retrieved Reformation O. Henry 3 Stanleigh Jones Realistic Short Story Two Kinds from The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan 1 Media: Documentary Media Connection: Cyber-Seniors 1 Realistic Short Story Thank You, M’am Langston Hughes 3 Media: Documentary Videoo Media Connection: The Dust Bowl 5 Reflective Essay Little Things Are Big Jesús Colón 3 Media: Image Gallery Mother-Daughter Drawings Mica and Myla Hendricks 1 Reflective Essay from An American Childhood Annie Dillard 4 Media: Photo Gallery Urban Farming Is Growing a Greener Future Hillary Schwei 4 Research-Based Essay Rethinking the Wild 4 Media: Promotional Video Media Connection: 100-Year Starship 2 Science Feature Creature Comforts: Three Biology-Based Tips for Builders Mary Beth Cox 4 Media: Radio Play Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed Michael McDonough 2 Science Journalism Learning Rewires the Brain Alison Pearce Stevens 3 Media: Television Interview Maya Angelou with Michael Learning to Love My Mother 1 Video Maher Science-Fiction Adventure The Last Dog Katherine Paterson 2

Media: Video Media Connection: from Scrooge 3 Short Story The Golden Windows Laura E. Richards 3

Media: Video Biography Ellen Ochoa: Director, Johnson Space Center Ellen Ochoa 2 Short Story Rikki-tikki-tavi Rudyard Kipling 5

Media: Video Interview Media Connection: How Helen Keller Learned to Talk Helen Keller with Anne Sullivan 5 Sports Profile High School Teammates Carry On Tom Rinaldi 5

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Adventure Story The Banana Tree James Berry 1 Media: Video Media Connection: When I Look Up Neil DeGrasse Tyson 5

Advice Column The Bystander Effect: Why You Don’t Stand Up When You Should Courtney Lindstrand 3 Media: Video Sounds of a Glass Armonica William Zeitler 5

Argument Freedom of the Press? 3 Memoir from Through My Eyes Ruby Bridges 3

Argument Is Personal Intelligence Important? John D. Mayer, Ph.D. 4 Memoir from Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence Doris Pilkington 3

Autobiographical Account I’ll Go Fetch Her Tomorrow from Hidden Like Anne Frank B. Emden with Marcel Prins 2 Memoir from Blue Nines and Red Words from Born on a Blue Day Daniel Tammet 4

Autobiography from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou 1 retold by Josephine Preston Myth Icarus and Daedalus 5 Peabody Biography from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad Ann Petry 3 Quinceañara Birthday Bash Preserves Tradition, Marks Passage to News Article Natalie St. John 1 Blog You Are the Electric Boogaloo Geoff Herbach 1 Womanhood

Blog Just Be Yourself! Stephanie Pellegrin 1 News Article Remembering a Devoted Keeper of Anne Frank’s Legacy Moni Basu 2

Blog Why is Emotional Intelligence Important for Teens? Divya Parekh 4 Nonfiction Three Cheers for the Nanny State Sarah Conly 3

Diary from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank 2 Nonfiction Ban the Ban! Sidney Anne Stone 3 Frances Goodrich and Albert Drama The Diary of Anne Frank, Act I & Act II 2 Nonfiction Soda’s a Problem, But…, Karin Klein 3 Hackett Nonfiction Gut Math 4 Epic Poem from The Song of Hiawatha Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1 Nonfiction Nikola Tesla: Greatest Inventor of All? Vicky Baez 5 Fiction Briar Rose Brothers Grimm 3 Personal Narrative Red Roses 1 Fiction Awake Tanith Lee 3 Persuasive Speech Words Do Not Pay Chief Joseph 3 Fiction One Weekend in the Real World 5 Poem Bird Liz Berry 1 Fiction from The Invention of Everything Else Samantha Hunt 5 Poem Ode to Teachers Pat Mora 1 Historical Article Quiet Resistance from Courageous Teen Resisters Ann Byers 2 Realistic Fiction The Winter Hibiscus Minfong Ho 1 Historical Essay To Fly from Space Chronicles Neil DeGrasse Tyson 5 Realistic Fiction The Scholarship Jacket Marta Salinas 3 Informational The Human Brain 4 Realistic Short Story The Medicine Bag Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve 1 Informational Essay from The Future of the Mind Michio Kaku 4 Realistic Short Story The Setting Sun and the Rolling World Charles Mungoshi 1 Informational Essay The More You Know, the Smarter You Are? Jim Vega 4 Realistic Short Story The Horned Toad Gerald Haslam 3 Informational Text The Grand Mosque of Paris 2 Reference Materials Two Entries from an Encyclopedia of Logic Staff Writer 4 Informative Article Irena Sendler—Rescuer of the Children of Warsaw Chana Kroll 2 Reflective Essay Childhood and Poetry Pablo Neruda 1 Lyric Poem Translating Grandfather’s House E. J. Vega 3 Science Feature A Computer in Your Head? Dr. Eric Chudler 4 Magical Realism Uncle Marcos Isabel Allende 5 Science Fiction Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes 4 Media: Documentary Media Connection: Buildings That Can Change Over Time BBC 5 Science Fiction from The Time Machine H. G. Wells 5 Media: Graphic Novel from Maus Art Spiegelman 2 Speech from Acceptance Speech for the Nobel Peace Prize Elie Wiesel 2 Media: Infographic Frank Family and World War II Timeline 2 Fermented Cow Dung Air Freshener Wins Two Students Top Science Technology Article Kimberley Mok 5 Media: Infographic The Theory of Multiple Intelligences Howard Gardner 4 Prize

Media: Radio Broadcast Media Connection: NY Judge Overturns Bloomberg’s Soda Ban NPR 3 Technology Article Scientists Build Robot That Runs, Call It “Cheetah” Rodrique Ngowi 5

Media: Science Article Video Media Connection: Building Your Brain BBC 4 Technology Feature Article Welcome to Origami City Nick D’Alto 5

Media: Video Media Connection: Apache Girl’s Rite of Passage National Geographic 1 Television Transcript Saving the Children Bob Simon 2 Media: Video Media Connection: Stories of Zimbabwean Women Hear Africa Foundation 1

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