Response to Literature--DRAFT
Reader’s Handbook
6th Grade
Skill Set 1: Reading a
Short Story
“Charles” by Shirley
Jackson (pp. 296-303)
7th Grade
8th Grade
6th Grade
Skill Set 2: Reading a
Novel
“Roll of Thunder, Hear My
Cry” by Mildred D. Taylor
(pp. 318-335)
7th Grade
8th Grade
Skill Set 3: Focus on
Characters
“The Cay” by Theodore
Taylor (pp. 342-348)
Skill Set 4: Focus on
Dialogue
“Roll of Thunder, Hear my
Cry” by Mildred D. Taylor (p
361-366)
6th Grade
7th Grade
8th Grade
6th Grade
7th Grade
8th Grade
Skill Set 5: Focus on Plot
“Last Cover” by Paul
Annixter (p 370-372)
6th Grade
7th Grade
8th Grade
6th Grade
Skill Set 6: Reading a
Poem
“Winter Poem” by Nikki
Giovanni (p 410, 418)
7th Grade
8th Grade
Applications Book
“The Diamond Necklace” by Guy de
Maupassant (pp. 118-125)
“After Twenty Years” by O. Henry
(pp. 120-122)
“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe
(pp. 118-122)
“The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson
Burnett (pp. 130-135)
“Don Quijote de la Mancha” by Miguel de
Cervantes (pp. 130-135)
“The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” by Mark
Twain (pp. 129-133)
“The Reluctant Dragon” by Kenneth Grahame
(p 141)
“Onlon John” by Joseph Krumgold (p 141)
“I Am the Cheese” by Robert Cormier (p 140)
“Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll (p
146)
“The Adventure of the Dying Detective” by Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle (p 146)
“Dicey’s Song” by Cynthia Volgt (p 144)
“The Ugly Duckling” by Hans Christian
Andersen (p 149)
“Little Red Cap” by Brothers Grimm (p 149)
“Kind Midas” by Thomas Bulfinch (p 147)
“Paul Revere’s Ride” by Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow (pp. 155-159)
“Hiawatha’s Childhood” by Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow (pp. 156-159)
“O Captain! My Captain! By Walt Whitman
(pp. 155-156)
Write Source
Response Paragraph
Story Interpretation
Poetry Review
Story Interpretation
Poetry Review
Response to Literature--DRAFT
Skill Set 7: Reading a Play
“The Diary of Anne Frank”
Dramatized by Frances
Goodrich and Albert
Hackett (pp. 474-475, 478480, 485)
6th Grade
7th Grade
8th Grade
“A Christmas Carol” Play Based on the Novel
by Charles Dickens (pp. 173-176)
“Pyramus and Thisbe” Play Based on the
Fable by Thomas Bulfinch (pp. 172-175)
“Trifles” Play in one act by Susan Glaspell (pp.
169-173)
Story Interpretation