Aug. 17, 2009
CSCOPE Reading List 6th‐12th
Grade
6
Author
Title
Washington, Booker T
Up from Slavery
3
The Coyote and the Hen
3
6
ELA Unit NELA Unit
6
Phipson, Joan
The Watcher in the Garden
3
6
Burnett Frances Hodgson
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Secret Garden
Secret Garden
3
6
Young, Ed
Seven Blind Mice
3
6
Sachar, Louis
Holes (book/film)
3
6
Stone Soup
3
6
The Ant and the Cricket
3
6
The Ants and the Grasshopper
3
The Little Red Ant and the Great Big Crumb
Why Amosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
3
Baum, Frank L
The Wizard of Oz (book/film)
6
6
Frank, Anne
The Diary of Anne Frank The
Diary of Anne Frank
(book/film)
6
7
Klass, david
You Don't Know Me
1
7
Galarza, Ernesto
Barrio Boy
1
7
Sayers Gale
Sayers, Gale
I am Third: The Inspiration for p
Brian's Song
1
7
Blinn, William
Brian's Song
1
7
Soto, Gary
Baseball in April and Other Stories
1
7
Fritz, Jean
,
Homesick: My Own Story
y
y
1
7
Kipling, Rudyard
Rikki‐tikki‐tavi
1
7
Freedman, Russell
Lincoln: A Photobiography
2
6
Climo, Shirley
6
Aardema, Verna
6
Jimenez, Francisco
6
3
3
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CSCOPE Reading List 6th‐12th
7
Moore, Kay
7
Ringgold, Faith
7
Whitman, Walt
7
If You Lived in the Time of the Civil War
Aunt harriet'ss Underground Aunt harriet
Underground
Railroad in the Sky
2
2
O Captain! My Captain! (poem)
2
George W. Bush Sept. 20, 2001, address to a joint session of Congress
2
7
Giovanni, Nikki and Brian Collier
Rosa
2
7
Farris, Christine King
My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up…
2
7
Ringgold, Faith
I Dream of Martin Luther King
2
7
King, Martin Luther Jr.
7
7
I Have a Dream (text and/or
I Have a Dream (text and/or video)
Franklin D. Roosevelt's declaration of war, Dec. 8, 1941
John F. Kennedy's 1961 inaugural address
2
2
2
7
Ronald Reagan's 1986 eulogy of the Challenger astronauts
2
7
Brooks, Gwendolyn
Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress‐Toward (poem)
2
7
Bedard, Michael
Emily
2
7
Winter, Jeanette
Emily Dickinson's Letters to the World
2
7
Hinton, S.E.
The Outsiders
3
7
Shusterman Neal
Shusterman, Neal
The Dark Side of Nowhere
The Dark Side of Nowhere
3
7
Avi
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
3
7
Bloor, Natalie
Hatchet
3
7
Peck, Natalie
,
A Year Down Yonder
3
7
Rawls, Wilson
Where the Red Fern Grows
3
7
Babbitt, natalie
Tuck Everlasting
3
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CSCOPE Reading List 6th‐12th
7
Aesop's Fables
4
7
Arnold, Ted
Parts or Mor Parts or Even Parts
or Mor Parts or Even
More Parts
4
8
Zindel, paul
Pigman and Me
1
Spinelli, Jerry
Knots in My Yo‐Yo String: The Autobiography of a Kid
1
Gantos Jack
Gantos, Jack
Hole in My Life
Hole in My Life
1
Cisneros, Sandra
Thr House on Mango Street
1
8
Soto, Gary
(also 6th grade)Baseball in April and Other Stories
1
8
Dahl, Roald
Boy: Tales of Childhood
1
8
Angelou, Maya
Mrs. Flowers: A Moment of Friendship
1
8
Anaya, Rudolfo
Bless Me Ultima
1
8
Lowry, Lois
Looking Back: A Book of Memories
1
8
Paulsen, Gary
My Life in Dog Years
1
8
Modern Poems: A Norton Introduction
(also 6th grade) The Diary of Anne Frank 1
8
Frank, Anne
8
Myers, Walter Dean
Bad Boy: A Memoir
1
8
Philbrick, W.R.
Freak the Mighty
1
8
Barbara, Toni Cade
Raymond's Run
1
8
Houston Jeanne Watasuki
Houston, Jeanne Watasuki
Farewell to Manzanar
Farewell to Manzanar
1
8
Cisneros, Sandra
Woman Hollering Creek
1
8
Paulsen, Gary
Guts: The true Stories behind Hatchet and the Brian Books
1
8
Dahl, Roald
The Landlady
2
8
Jacobs, W.W.
The Monkey's Paw
2
Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox
2
8
1
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8
Jackson, Shirley
Charles
2
8
Felton, Harold W.
Pecos Bill and the Mustang
2
8
Poe, Edgar Allan
The Tell‐Tale Heart
2
8
Henry, O.
The Ransom of Red Chief
2
8
Goodrich Frances and Albert Hackett The Diary of Anne Frank
Goodrich, Frances and Albert Hackett
The Diary of Anne Frank
4
8
Polacco, Patricia
4
8
Bunting, Eve
8
Volavkova Hana ed
Volavkova, Hana ed.
8
Ogden, Maurice
Hangman
4
9
Thurber, james
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1
9
Maupassant Guy de
Maupassant, Guy de
The Necklace
The Necklace
1
9
Hurst, James
The Scarlet Ibis
1
9
Connell, Richard
The Most Dangerous Game
1
9
Stockton, Frank R.
The Lady of the Tiger
y
g
1
9
Poe, Edgar Allan
The Cask of Amontillado
1
9
Roethke, Theodore
My Papa's Waltz
3
9
Shakespeare, William
Seven Ages of Man
3
9
Shakespeare, William
All the World is a Stage
3
9
Wordsworth, William
The Daffodils
3
9
Wordsworth, William
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
3
9
Thayer, Ernest Lawrence
Casey at the Bat
3
9
Frost, Robert
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
3
9
Frost, Robert
Mending Wall
3
The Butterfly
The Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust
I Never Saw Another Butterfly: children'ss drawings and children
drawings and
poems…
4
4
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9
Frost, Robert
The Road Not Taken
3
9
(also 8th grade) Pecos Bill and (also
8th grade) Pecos Bill and
the Mustang
4
9
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
4
9
Child, Francis J.
Barbara Allen
4
9
Keats John
Keats, John
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
4
9
Ochs, Phil
The Ballad of John Henry Faulk
4
9
Shakespeare, William
sonnets
4
9
Shakespeare, William
Romeo and Juliet
4
9
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
How Do I Love Thee? poem
4
9
Herbert, Bob
Romeo and Juliet in Bosnia (1994 PBS Frontline documentary/transcript)
4
10
Lessing Doris
Lessing, Doris
"Through
Through the Tunnel
the Tunnel"
1
Chee's Daughter: Character's Environment Reveals A Great Deal…
(repeat 8th grade) The Monkey's Paw
10
Platero, Juanita and Siyowin Miller
1
10
Jacobs, W.W.
10
Vasconcelos, Jose
The Boar Hunt
1
10
Munro, H.H.
The Interlopers
1
10
Poe, Edgar Allan
The Masque of the Red Death
1
10
Aesop
The Tortoise and the Hare
The Tortoise and the Hare
2
10
Hamilton, Edith
Perseus
2
10
Irving, Washington
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
2
10
Houston, Jeanne Watasuki
,
(repeat 8th grade) Farewell to Manzanar
2
10
Haskins, Jim
Roas Parks: My Story
2
10
Truman, Margaret
The United States versus Susan B. Anthony
2
1
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CSCOPE Reading List 6th‐12th
10
Cisneros, Sandra
Only Daughter
2
10
Lear, Edward
Book of Nonsense (liericks)
3
10
Acosta, Teresa Palomo
My Mother Pieced Quilts (poem)
3
10
Auden, W.H.
Funeral Blues (poem)
3
10
Brooks Gwendolyn
Brooks, Gwendolyn
The Sonnet‐Ballad (poem)
The Sonnet‐Ballad (poem)
3
10
Cummings, E.E.
I carry your heart with me (poem)
3
10
Giovanni, Nikki
Quilts (poem)
3
10
Hayden, Robert
Those Winter Sundays (poem)
3
10
Lorca, Federico Garcia
The Weeping (poem)
3
10
McGraw, Tim and Tom Douglas
My Little Girl (song lyrics)
3
10
Thomas, Dylan
10
Issa, Kobayashi
10
Hughes, Langston
Dreams (poem)
3
10
Shakespeare, William
p
Julius Caesar
3
10
Roosevelt, Franklin D. Day of Infamy
5
10
Lincoln, Abraham
Gettysburg Address
5
10
King, Martin Luther Jr.
(repeat 7th grade) I Have a Dream
5
10
Kennedy, Robert F. Assassination of Dr. King
5
10
Roosevelt, Franklin D. Annual Message (Four Freedoms) to Congress (1941)
5
10
, y
Thomas, Dylan
A Child's Christmas in Wales
6
11
Dr. Seuss
Oh, The Places You'll Go
1
11
Dr. Seuss
Oh, The Thinks You Can Think!
1
Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night (poem)
Haikus Under my house, That pretty girl, Summer night, The Toad!,…
3
3
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CSCOPE Reading List 6th‐12th
11
London, Jack
To Build a Fire
1
11
Welty, Eudora
A Worn Path
1
11
Gibbons, Kaye
Ellen Foster (book/film)
1
Cinderella (classic tale)
1
11
11
Emerson Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Self‐Reliance
1
11
Miller, Arthur
The Crucible (book/DVD)
2
11
Good Night, and Good Luck (DVD)
2
11
Pollyanna (DVD)
2
11
The History Channel: Salem Witch Trials (DVD)
I Know Where the Caged Bird Sings
2
11
Angelou, Maya
3
11
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Scarlet Letter
3
11
Hesse, Herman
Siddhardtha
3
11
Twain, Mark
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
3
11
Hurston, Zora Neale
Their Eyes Were Watching God
3
11
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
The Great Gatsby
4
11
Cisneros, Sandra
Eleven
4
12
Chaucer, Geoffrey
The Canterbury Tales
1
12
Shakespeare William
Shakespeare, William
Macbeth
2
12
Marvell, Andrew
To His Coy Mistress
3
12
Herrick, Robert
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
3
12
Donne, John
,
Meditation XVII
3
12
Shelley, Percy
Ozymandias
3
12
Shelley, Mary
Frankenstein
3
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CSCOPE Reading List 6th‐12th
12
Gray, Thomas
12
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
4
Mrs. Brown (DVD)
4
12
Hardy, Thomas
Far from the Madding Crowd
4
12
Bronte, Charlotte
Jane Eyre
4
12
Huxley Aldous
Huxley, Aldous
Brave New World
Brave New World
5