Module One Texts:
Novel: Watsons go to Birmingham, 1963- Christopher Paul Curtis
Non- fiction:
“The Birmingham Church: The Rest of the Story”
“Birmingham Bomb Kills Four Negro Girls in Church”
“Bully and Teasing: No Laughing Matter”
“What You Need to Know about Bullying”
“School Bullying and its’ Consequences”
Short Stories:
“Hunger”- Richard Wright
“Seventh Grade”- Gary Soto
“A Reasonable Sum”- Gordon Korman
Poetry-
“Still I Rise”- Maya Angelou
“Dreams”- Langston Hughes
“Dream Deferred”- Langston Hughes
“Where the Sidewalk Ends”- Shel Silverstein
Drama-
“The Monster in the Cave”
Module Four Texts:
Novel: Out of the Dust- Karen Heese
Nonfiction:
“The Great Depression”
"Black Sunday, April 14, 1935: The Dust Bowl"
“What Caused the Dust Bowl"
“Teen Hoboes in the 1930’s”
“Day of Disaster”
Poetry
Module Two Texts:
Novel: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy- Gary Schmidt
Nonfiction-
“Opening the book that is Gary Schmidt”
“Malaga Revisited: on a Casco Bay island, a shameful incident in Maine’s history comes to light.”
“Digging for the Truth: Malaga- excavation”
“A Century of Shame”
“A Century After Malaga Island Expulsion, an Apology”
“Gentlemen of the Road”-
“Are you a Loser” Scope magazine
Poems-
“To a Black Girl”
“The Highwayman”
“The Loser” Shel Silverstein
Short Stories-
“Heart and Hands”- O’Henry
Drama-
“Monsters are due on Maple Street”
Module Three Texts
Novel- Freak the Mighty
Nonfiction-
“Growth Disorders”
“Oscar Pistorius and the Olympics”
“Bionic Body Parts”
“The Olympics Debate”
“The Fight for Real Beauty”
Short Stories
King Arthur
Merlin and the Dragons
Poetry
“Frankenstein”
“Joyful Noise”
“Madam and the Rent Man”
Drama
“The Birthmark”
Module Five:
Novel- Call of the Wild
Nonfiction:
“Klondike Gold Rush”
“Sled Dogs: An Alaskan Epic”
“Seven Tips to Survive in the Alaskan Wilderness”
“Do you make buying decisions based on logic or emotion?”
Short Stories:
“King Midas and the Golden Touch”
“After Twenty Years”
“Phaethon”
“Icarus”
“Prometheus”
Poetry:
“Choices”- Allen Steble
“Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening”- Robert Frost