CURRENT LIST
OF
SECONDARY (6-12)
LANGUAGE ARTS
RESOURCES
USED
Northfield Public Schools
September 26, 2011
Grade 6 Language Arts
READING
Novels:
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
A Long Way From Chicago
A Wrinkle in Time
Across Five Aprils
Banner in the Sky
Birchbark House
Bridge to Terabithia (*5th)
Chasing Vermeer
Cricket in Times Square (Amis.)
Daniel’s Story
Dear Mr. Henshaw
Dicey’s Song
Dog Song
Everything on a Waffle
Esperanza Rising (Amistades)
Farewell to Manzanar
Freak the Mighty
Friedrich
Friendship and Gold Cadillac
Gathering Blue
Hank the Cowdog (*5th)
Hatchet
How to Eat Fried Worms
Incredible Journey
Island Far from Home
Island of Blue Dolphins
Journey to Johannesburg
Julie of the Wolves
Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
Little House on the Prairie
Maniac Magee
Max the Mighty
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of
Mud City
My Side of the Mountain
Nimh (*5th)
Number the Stars
Olive’s Ocean
On My Honor
Painting the Dakota
Parvana’s Journey
READING (continued)
Novels (continued):
Phoenix Rising
Pinballs
Rascal
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Running Out of Time (*5th)
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Shades of Gray
Shane
Sherlock Holmes Mysteries
Shiloh
Sign of the Beaver
Soldier’s Heart
Sounder
Summer of Swans
The Breadwinner
The Cay
The Giver
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Tuck Everlasting
Walk Two Moons
Westing Game
When the Tripods Came
Wishgiver
Woodsong Lion’s Paw
READING (continued)
Text/Anthologies:
(Have to look up the name.)
Teacher Resources:
Trade Book Teacher Edition
Resource Books – Novel Guides
WRITING
Text:
Write Source
Rebecca Sitton Spelling
Grammar:
Write Source
Rebecca Sitton
Spelling:
6-8 List of Priority Spelling Words in
Write Source
Rebecca Sitton Spelling
Vocabulary:
Plays:
Short Stories:
Teacher Resources:
Rebecca Sitton Spelling
Write Source
SPEAKING, LISTENING, AND
VIEWING
Poetry:
A Joyful Noise
Poetry Out Loud
Heritage Readers (Johnstone)
Text:
Nonfiction:
Video/Audio
Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)
Northfield Public Schools
Updated 9/26/2011
GRADE 6
CLASSROOM LIBRARY TITLES
Biographies That Are Not Boring (Book Set):
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Boy: Tales of Childhood
Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini
The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler
Life in Prison
Lincoln: A Photobiography
Restless Spirit: The Life and Word of Dorothea Lange
Within Reach
Zlata’s Diary
Overcoming Adversity (Book Set):
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Al Capone Does My Shirts
Crash
Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie
Habibi
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
Maniac Magee
Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind
The Silent Boy
Speak
War Stories (Book Set):
1.
2.
3.
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10.
11.
Dateline: Troy
Dawn of Fear
Escape from Warsaw
Johnny Tremain
My Brother Sam is Dead
Parvana’s Journey
Rifles for Watie
The Secret of Sarah Revere
Soldier’s Heart
When My Name Was Keoko
Code Talker
The Great Depression (Book Set):
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Children of the Great Depression
Esperanza Rising
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The New Deal President
Bud Not Buddy
A Long Way from Chicago
The Stock Market Crash of 1929
School Library Journal Best Books (Book Set):
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Criss Cross
Heartbeat
I, Coriander
Ida B…And Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, And (Possibly) Save the World
The King of Attolia
The Lightening Thief
The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place
Northfield Public Schools
Updated 9/26/2011
Classroom Library for Grade 6/Page 2
GRADE 6
CLASSROOM LIBRARY TITLES
8.
9.
The Sea of Trolls
To Dance: A Ballerina’s Graphic Novel
ALA Best Books (Book Set):
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850
Blizzard! The Storm that Changed America
The Greatest: Muhammad Ali
Bodies from the Ash
Phineas Gage: A Gruesome But True Story About Brain Science
Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship of Essex
Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World
ALA Best Books – Fiction (Book Set):
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Bucking the Sarge
Eagle Strike
Hoot
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
Montmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman
Surviving the Applewhites
The Teacher’s Funeral: A comedy in Three Parts
Paired Texts – Environmental Studies (Book Set):
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
California Blue
Down to Earth Guide to Global Warning
Flush
An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming
The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
I Want to Be an Environmentalist
Short Stories for Teens (Book Set):
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul 2
The Color of Absence: 12 Stories About Loss and Hope
Dreams and Visions: Fourteen Flights of Fantasy
The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain
Local News
Lost and Found: Award-Winning Authors Sharing Real-Life Experiences Through Fiction
My Dad’s a Punk: 12 Stories About Boys and Their Fathers
Odds are Good
The Scary Story Reader for Sleepovers, Campfires, Car and Bus Trips
Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird
Thirteen: 12 Tales of Horror by 13 Masters of Horror
Book Source Singles:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Eleanor Roosevelt (Kem Knapp Sawyer)
My Life in Dog Years (Gary Paulson)
Martin Luther King Jr. (Amy Pastan)
Of Beetles and Angels: A Boy’s Remarkable Journey (Mawi Asgedom)
The Man Without a Face (Isabelle Holland)
Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler’s Shadow (Susan Campbell Bartoletti)
Northfield Public Schools
Updated 9/26/2011
Classroom Library for Grade 6/Page 3
GRADE 6
CLASSROOM LIBRARY TITLES
7.
8.
9.
10.
The Teacher’s Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts (Richard Peck)
Surviving the Applewhites (Stephanie Tolan)
Rules (Cynthia Lord)
Esperanza Rising (Pam Munoz Ryan)
Miscellaneous/Other Reading:
1.
Poems for Two Voices (Paul Fleischman)
Miscellaneous Singles:
1.
Out of the Dust (Karen Hesse)
Booksource – Picture Serafine (Chris Van AllsburgCollections):
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Bad Day at Riverbend
Jumanji
Just a Dream
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick
The Polar Express
The Stranger
The Sweetest Fig
The Widow’s Broom
The Wretched Stone
Zathura
Booksource – Picture/Serafini:
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25.
Where the Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak)
Caps for Sale (Esphyr Slobodkina)
Grandfather’s Journey (Allen Say)
The Eleventh Hour (Graeme Base)
Seven Blind Mice (Ed Young)
The Straight Line Wonder (Mem Fox)
Owl Moon (Jane Yolen)
Mean Soup (Betsy Everitt)
Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups
The Stinky Cheesman and Other Fairly Stupid Tales (Jon Scieszka)
Snowflake Bentley (Jacqueline Briggs Martin)
The Table Where Rich People Sit (Byrd Baylor)
Voices in the Park (Anthony Browne)
Tuesday (David Wiesner)
The Snowman (Raymond Briggs)
Black and White (David Macaulay)
There’s a Nightmare in My Closet (Mercer Mayer)
Cinder Elly (Frances Minters)
Yen-Shen (Ai-Ling Louie)
The Rough-Faced Girl (Rafe Martin)
Mufano’s Beautiful Daughters (John Steptoe)
The Egyptian Cinderella (Shirley Climo)
The Three Questions (Jon Muth)
The Other Side (Jacqueline Woodson)
Scranimals (Jack Prelutsky)
Northfield Public Schools
Updated 9/26/2011
Classroom Library for Grade 6/Page 4
GRADE 6
CLASSROOM LIBRARY TITLES
Miscellaneous Picture/Serafini:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
I’m as Quick as a Cricket (Audrey Wood)
The Three Pigs (David Wiesner)
Yo! Yes? (Chris Rashka)
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs (Jon Scieszka)
Elmer (David McKee)
Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse (Kevin Henkes)
Fly Away Home (Eve Bunting)
The Big Orange Splot (Daniel Poinkwater)
The Discovery of Dragons (Graeme Base)
Home of the Brave (Allen Say)
Leveled Books:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Level Y (6-pack) Fiction Best Seller Collection
Level Y (6-pack) Nonfiction Best Seller Collection
Level U (6-pack) Fiction Best Seller Collection
Level U (6-pack) Nonfiction Best Seller Collection
Benchmark Education:
1.
2.
Fractured Classics Set
Folktales, Myths, and Legends (Set B)
The following titles were part of your classroom library list, but were cancelled and are not currently in print:
1. The Great Depression (part of the Great Depression Book Set)
2. Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash in 1929 (part of the Great Depression Book Set)
3. Gutsy Girls (part of the ALA Best Books Book Set)
4. China’s Son: Growing Up in the Cultural Revolution (part of Book Source Singles section)
5. Horace and Morris, but Mostly Dolores (part of Booksource/Picture/Serafini book group)
6. Changes by Anthony Browne (Serafini)
7. Bub, or the Very Best Thing by Natalie Babbitt (Serafini)
8. Zoo by Anthony Browne (Serafini)
9. Rose Blanche by Roberto Innocenti (Serafini)
10. Piggy Book by Anthony Browne (Serafini)
11. How Dogs Really Work by Alan Snow (Serafini)
12. Table Manners by Chris Rashka (Serafini)
13. Willy’s Pictures by Anthony Browne (Serafini)
14. Why the Chicken Crossed the Road by David Macaulay (Serafini)
15. Pish, Posh Said Hieronymus Bosch by Nancy Willard (Serafini)
16. Bright and Early Thursday Evening by Audrey Wood (Serafini)
17. Dinorella by Pamela Edwards (Serafini)
Northfield Public Schools
Updated 9/26/2011
Language Arts Teacher Resource Crates
Grade 6
Reading
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Guided Comprehension: A Teaching Model for Grades 3-8 (Maureen McLaughlin/Mary Beth Allen)
Guided Comprehension: Lessons for Grades 3-8 (Maureen McLaughlin and Mary Beth Allen)
The Reading Workshop (Frank Serafini)
Lessons in Comprehension (Frank Serafini)
Around the Reading Workshop in 180 Days (Frank Serafini)
More (Advanced) Lessons in Comprehension (Frank Serafini)
Reading Reasons (Kelly Gallagher)
Reading Power (Adrienne Gear)
The Reading Zone (Nancie Atwell)
Interactive Read-Aloud (Linda Hoyt)
Writing
1.
2.
3.
4.
Lessons That Change Writers (Nancie Atwell)
Mechanically Inclined (Jeff Anderson)
Everyday Editing (Jeff Anderson)
Four Square: The Total Writing Classroom (Grades 5-9) (Gould, Gould, Wheeler)
Word
Study
1.
Words Their Way (including supplemental books)
Content
Area
Resource
1.
Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning (Doug Buehl)
Northfield Public Schools
Updated 9/26/2011
Reading 6: Reading Strategies
READING (continued)
READING
Nonfiction:
Classroom Library
• The American Plague (Murphy)
• Kids At Work (Freedman)
• Immigrant Kids (Freedman)
• Six Days in October (Blumenthal)
• Leonardo DaVinci (Stanley)
• Blizzard (Murphy)
• The Great Fire (Murphy)
• We Rode the Orphan Trains
(Warren)
• Escape from Saigon (Warren)
• Guts (Paulsen)
• Small Steps (Kehret)
• Farewell to Manzanar (Houston)
• Encounter (Yolan)
Teacher Resources:
• Teaching Reading Strategies
(Scholastic)
• Teaching Students to Read
Nonfiction (Scholastic)
• Nonfiction Passages with Graphic
Organizers (Scholastic)
• Strategies that Work (Harvey)
• Study Smart
• School Power
• Collaborative Strategic Reading
• Key Three Routine
WRITING
Vocabulary:
Embedded in daily assignments.
25 Nonfiction Passages with
Vocabulary
Teacher Resources:
• Stretching Student Vocabulary
• Teaching Vocabulary Through
Differentiated Instruction
• 180 Essential Vocabulary for 6th
Grade
• Vocabulary Building Card Games
Essays:
• “A Walk on the Underground
Railroad” (Cohen)
• “Close Encounters” (Morelli)
Skill Development:
• Making Inferences (Jamestown)
• Understanding the Main Idea (SteckVaughn/Jamestown)
• “6-Way Paragraphs in Content
Areas” (Jamestown)
• Nonfiction Text Features (Scholastic)
• 35 Reading Passages with
Comprehension
• “Time for Kids” magazine
Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)
Northfield Public Schools
Updated 9/26/2011
Grade 7
READING
READING (continued)
Novels:
• Al Capone Does My Shirts
• Flipped
• Holes
• Homeless Bird
• So B. It
• Stargirl
• Touching Spirit Bear
Short Stories:
• “A Retrieved Reformation”
• “All Summer in a Day”
• “Amigo Brothers”
• “Cask of Amontillado”
• “Charles”
• “Lather and Nothing Else”
• “Names/Nombres”
• “Papa’s Parrot”
• “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”
• “Thank You, Ma’am”
• “The Three Century Woman”
• “The Circuit”
• “The Dinner Party”
• “The Last Dog”
• “The Mystery of Keesh”
• “The Raven”
• “The Scholarship Jacket”
• “The Treasure of Lemon Brown”
• “Zebra”
Poetry:
• “A Minor Bird”
• “A Word is Dead”
• “Annabel Lee”
• “Jabberwocky”
• “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout”
• “Scaffolding”
• “The Charge of the Light Brigade”
• “The Courage that My Mother Had”
• “The Highwayman”
• “The Names”
• “The World is not a Pleasant Place to
Be”
• “Under the Back Porch”
• Various selections in anthology
Twain Nonfiction:
• Abigail Adams (Sabin)
• Albert Einstein (Wishinsky)
• Alexander Graham Bell: Giving
Voice to the World (Carson)
• Allan Pinkerton (Green)
• Amelia Earhart: A Life in Flight
(Jones)
• An Finished Battle (Sigerman)
• Annie Oakley (Willis)
• Civil War Curiosities (Garrison)
• Clara Barton: Founder of the
American Red Cross (Sommerville)
• Crazy Horse (Stanley)
• Crocket (Stanley)
• Earhart (Sabin)
• Einstein (Yeatts)
• Elizabeth Blackwell (Sabin)
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Social
Reformer (Burgan)
• For Cause and Comrades
(McPherson)
• Frederick Douglas: Rising Up From
Slavery (Ruffin)
• From Slavery to Freedom with
Harriet Tubman (Hedstrom)
• Harriet Tubman: The Road to
Freedom (Clinton)
• Henson (Olmstead)
• Houdini (Mullin)
• Houdini: A Photographic Story of a
Life (Cobb)
• Lewis and Clark (Burrow)
• Lincoln: A Photobiography
(Freedman)
• Mark Twain (Cox)
• Mark Twain for Kids (Rasmussen)
• River Boy (Anderson)
• Sacajawea (Howard)
• Sitting Bull (Crummett)
• The Stout-Hearted Seven (Frazier)
• Weapons of War (Stewart)
• Who was Abraham Lincoln (Pascal)
• Who Was Mark Twain? (Prince)
READING (continued)
Twain Nonfiction (continued):
• 33 Things a Girl Should Know About
Women’s History (Bolden)
• A Pioneer Sampler (Greenvood)
• Black Cats and April Fools (Oliver)
• Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps (Oliver)
• Ellis Island (Jacobs)
• Ellis Island Interviews (Coan)
• Everyday Life: The Civil War
(Hanzen)
• Eyewitness to the Civil War (Kagan)
• Fields of Fury (McPherson)
• Frontier Medicine (Dary)
• Growing Up in Pioneer America
(Josephson)
• Hear That Train Whistle Blow!
(Meltzer)
• How We Lived (Seibert)
• Immigration (Hernandez)
• Leaders of the North and South
(Yancey)
• Life Among Soldiers and Calvary
(Corrick)
• Measles and Rubella (Saffer)
• Medicine in the American West
(Davis)
• Pioneer Women (Peevy)
• Popular Superstitions (Hughes)
• Riding the Rails in the U.S. (Sandler)
• Scholastic Encyclopedia of the Civil
War (Clinton)
• The Big Book of the Civil War
(Mattern)
• The Civil War for Kids (Herbert)
• The Little House Cookbook (Walker)
• The Underground Railroad (Lassieur)
• The Underground Railroad for Kids
(Carson)
• Victoria’s Home Companion
(Rumble)
Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)
Novels:
Tom Sawyer
Four Miles to Pinecone
Northfield Public Schools
Short Stories: “7th Grade”
Plays: “A Christmas Carol”
Updated 9/26/2011
Grade 7
READING (continued)
READING (continued)
WRITING (continued)
Dickens Nonfiction:
• A Dictionary of Victorian London
(Jackson)
• Daily Life in Victorian England
(Mitchell)
• Dickens: His Work and His World
(Rosen)
• Everyday Life in the 1800s
(McCutcheon)
• Industrial Britain: The Workshop of
the World (Counsell)
• Inside the Victorian Home (Flanders)
• London: A Life in Maps (Whitfield)
• The Essential Handbook of Victorian
Etiquette (Hil)
• The Man Who Invented Christmas
(Standiford)
• The Timetraveller’s Guide to
Victorian London (Narayan)
• The Way People Live: Life in
Victorian England (Damon)
• The World of Charles Dickens (Fido)
• Victorian and Edwardian Fashion
(Gernsheim)
• Victorian Fashions and Costumes
(Blum)
• Victorian London Street Life in
Historic Photographs (Thomson)
• Victorian London: Tale of a City
1840-1870 (Picard)
• Voices from Dickens’ London
(Paterson)
• What Jane Austen Ate and Charles
Dickens Knew (Pool)
Teacher Resources:
• Teaching Reading in the Middle
School (Robb)
• I Read It, But I Don’t Get It (Tovani)
• Teaching Literary Elements
(McCarthy)
• Strategies That Work (Harvey)
• Reading Essentials (Routman)
• Do I Really Have to Teach Reading
(Tovani)
• Words, Words, Words (Allen)
• Teaching Reading Strategies
(Fordham)
• Reading Reasons (Gallagher)
• Reading Reminders (Burke)
• Teaching the Best Way: Methods that
Matter K-12 (Daniels)
Teacher Resources for Writing:
• 6+1 Traits of Writing (Ruth Culham)
• After the End (Barry Lane)
• Unjournaling (Thurston)
• Teaching the Best Way: Methods that
Matter K-12 (Daniels)
• Reviser’s Toolbox (Barry Lane)
• (Barry Lane)
• Teaching Elaboration and Word
Choice (Nickelsen)
• Poem Crazy (Wooldridge)
• Writing Poetry (Tucker)
• The Adventures of Dr. Alphabet
(Morice)
WRITING
Video/Audio:
• “A&E Biography: Poe”
• “A&E Biography: Dickens”
• “A&E Biography: Twain”
• “Famous Authors: Dickens”
• “Famous Authors: Twain”
• “School House Rock”
• “A Christmas Carol”
• “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”
• “Underground Railroad” (DVD)
• “Great Debators” (DVD)
• “Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till”
(DVD)
Text:
• Write Source 2000
Grammar:
• Heath Grammar and Composition
Spelling:
• Current Priority Word List
Teacher Resources for Vocabulary:
• Prefixes and Suffixes (Callella)
• Greek and Latin Roots (Callella)
• Analogy Challenge (Schwartz)
Text/Anthologies:
• Literature (McDougal-Littell)
• Reader’s Handbook
SPEAKING, LISTENING, AND
VIEWING
Teacher Resources:
• Teaching the Best Way: Methods that
Matter K-12 (Daniels)
Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)
Novels:
Tom Sawyer
Four Miles to Pinecone
Northfield Public Schools
Short Stories: “7th Grade”
Plays: “A Christmas Carol”
Updated 9/26/2011
Reading 7: Reading Lab
READING
Novels:
Classroom Library
• On the Run (Korman)
• Kidnapped (Korman)
• Island (Korman)
• Everest (Korman)
• Dive (Korman)
• Schooled (Korman)
• Worth (Lafaye)
• So B. It (Weeks)
• The Haymeadow (Paulson)
• The Winter Room (Paulson)
• Striking Out (Weaver)
• Farm Team (Weaver)
• Hard Ball (Weaver)
• Memory Boy (Weaver)
• A Family Apart (Lowery-Nixon)
• Caught in the Act (Lowery-Nixon)
• In the Face of Danger (LoweryNixon)
• Lottery Rose (Hunt)
• Zebra Wall (Hankies)
• Loser (Spinelli)
• Drivers Ed (Cooney)
• I Know What You Did Last Summer
(Duncan)
• Killing Mr. Griffin (Duncan)
• Eyewitness Books:
- Pirate
- Arms in Armor
- World War I
- Flying Machines
- Ancient Greece
- Shakespeare
- Volcanoes and Earth
- World War II
- Insects
• DK Biographies:
- Annie Oakley
- Albert Einstein
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Abraham Lincoln
- John Kennedy
- Harry Houdini
- Amelia Earhart
- George Washington
- Charles Darwin
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Princess Diana
READING (continued)
Classroom Library: (continued)
• DK Biographies: (continued)
- Helen Keller
- Pele
- Ghandi
- Nelson Mandela
• Saddleback Biographies:
- Annie Oakley
- Albert Einstein
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Abraham Lincoln
- John Kennedy
- Harry Houdini
- Amelia Earhart
- George Washington
- Charles Darwin
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Princess Diana
- Helen Keller
- Pele
- Ghandi
- Nelson Mandela
- Jackie Robinson
- Chavez
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Graphic Biographies:
- Wilma Rudolph
- Matthew Henson
- Cezar Chavez
- Booker T. Washington
• Capstone Press:
- Swat Teams
- Skateboarding Vertical
- Snowboarder X
- Skateboarding Big Air
- BMX Park
- Stranded
- Helicopters
- National Security Agency
- Alone in the Wilderness
- Snowmobiling
- Bow Hunting
- Jet Fighters
- Spy Planes
- Pheasant Hunting
- Fashion Design
• Saddleback paperbacks
READING (continued)
Audio Library: (continued)
• Heaven (Johnson)
• Teachers Funeral (Peck)
• Fudge-a-Mania (Bloom)
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham
(Curtis)
• The River (Paulson)
• Esperanza Rising (Ryan)
• Monsters (Myers)
• IQBAL (D’Adamo)
Plays:
• Hank the Boy
Reading Resources:
• Kim Marshall Reading Series I and II
• (random articles to teach SQ3R)
Study Method
• Jamestown – Eccentrics, Weird
Science, Extreme Sports, Heroes,
Outer Edge, Wild Side
• Astonishing Headlines
• Newspaper Articles (current) –
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Skill Development:
• MCAII Prep Reading Workbook
• Signature Reading (Jamestown),
Levels G and H
• Jamestown Timed Readings
WRITING
Vocabulary:
• Vocabulary Drills (Jamestown)
Middle Level
• Best Ever Vocabulary and Word
Study
• Daily Journals
SPEAKING, LISTENING AND
VIEWING
Video:
“Warm Springs” (FDR –polio) with “Out
of the Dust”
Audio Library:
• Peak (Smith)
• Baseball in April (Soto)
• Holes (Sachar)
Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)
• Out of the Dust (Hesse)
Northfield Public Schools
Updated 9/26/2011
Grade 8
READING
Novels: (Classroom Library from Perfection
Learning)
• Chanda’s Secrets
• Crossing the Wire
• Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants
• Escape from Memory
• Fever
• Freak the Mighty
• Friction
• Handbook for Boys
• Hear the Wind Blow
• Heat
• Hitch
• Hope’s Crossing
• Kissing the Rain
• Legend of Buddy Bush
• Malka
• New Boy
• Northern Light
• Ropemaker
• Shakespeare’s Spy
• Step from Heaven
• Stormbreaker
• Tears of the Salamander
• Warrior Angel
• When We Were Saints
• Year of Secret Assignments
• Assassin
READING (continued)
Novels: (continued)
• Daddy’s Little Girl
• Dairy Queen
• Double Helix
• Down the Yukon
• Fire-Eaters
• Great and Terrible Beauty
• Hat Full of Sky
• Heroes Don’t Run
• Hitchhiker’s Guide/Galaxy
• Island Like You
• Kipling’s Choice
• Last Juror
• One of Those Hideous Books
• Pieces of Georgia
• Pool Boy
• Red Scarf Girl
• Shooter
• Silent to the Bone
• Stones in Water
• Supernaturalist
• Tending Grace
• Turnabout
• Wrestling Sturbridge
• Away Laughing/Fast Camel
• Begging for Change
• Charmed
• Code Orange
READING (continued)
Novels: (continued)
• Dead Girls Don’t Wwrite
• Dead-End Job
• Drums, Girls and Dangerous
• Elsewhere
• Flipped
• Ghost Soldiers: Forgotten
• Invisible
• Jumping Tree
• Last Dance on Holladay
• Magic or Madness
• My Friend the Enemy
• No More Dead Dogs
• Petty Crimes
• Playmaker
• Real Time
• Red Kayak
• Romiette and Julio
• Sledding Hill
• Storm Thief
• Tent: A Parable in One
• Keeper
• Afterlife
• Amos Fortune, Free Man
• Anthony Burns
• Black Pearl
• Breaking Through
• Bucking the Sarge
Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)
Novels:
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Acting and the Theatre
• All Creatures Great and Small
• Ancient Greece (Eyewitness Series)
• As Blue as a Rainy Day Without a Friend
• Book Thief
• Cry the Beloved Country
• Dark Days – America’s Great Depression
• Favorite Poems: A Quotable Anthology
• Flowers for Algernon
• Free At Last – The Struggle for Civil Rights
• Giants in the Earth
• Journey Through Heartsongs
• Mythology (Eyewitness Series)
• Nothing but the Truth
• Reflections on a Gift of a Watermelon Pickle
• Secret Life of the Bees
• Shakespeare’s Sonnets
• The Diary of Anne Frank
• The Miracle Worker
Northfield Public Schools
Novels: (continued)
• Wide Open Spaces, American Frontiers
• The Outsiders
• The Red Pony
• The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Voices of the Holocaust
• What’s So Funny?
• Who Moved My Cheese? For Teens
Short Stories:
• “The Tell-Tale Heart”
• “The Ransom of Red Chief”
• “The Lady or the Tiger”
• “My Teacher, the Hawk”
Nonfiction:
• Over the Earth I Come
Updated 9/26/2011
Grade 8
READING (continued)
READING (continued)
Novels: (continued)
• Buried Onions
• Canyons
• Children of the River
• Clay Marble
• Dark Sons
• Day of Tears
• Dragonwings
• Farewell to Manzanar
• Forged by Fire
• House of Dies Drear
• Jimi and Me
• Lizzie Bright
• Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money
• Nightjohn
• Secret of Gumbo Grove
• Slave Dancer
• Tequila Worm
• Ties that Bind
• Touching Spirit Bear
• Trino’s Choice
• Under the Blood – Red Sun
• With Every Drop of Blood
• Words by heart
• Accidental Love
• Astonishing Life
• Edenville Owls
• Hoop Kings
Novels: (continued)
• Life as We Knew It
• Runaway
• Small Steps
• Something About America
• Un Lun Dun
• Al Capone Does My Shirts
• Any Small Goodness
• Before We Were Free
• Black Duck
• Breadwinner
• Code Talker
• Colibri
• Fair Weather
• Flush
• From Slave Ship to Freedom
• Graduation of Jake Moon
• Heir Apparent
• Hello, America
• Holes
• Hoot
• In Darkness, Death
• Invisible
• Last Apprentice – Revenge
• Lightning Thief
• Lord of the Deep
• Mango-shaped Space
• My Brother’s Keeper
READING (continued)
Novels: (continued)
• Olive’s Ocean
• Puppet Wrangler
• Real Time
• Rebel Angels
• Rodzina
• Ruins of Gorlan
• Schwa was Here
• Scorpia
• Seeing Stone
• Skin
• Sledding Hill
• Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie
• Snap
• Stand Tall
• Teacher’s Funeral
• Trouble Don’t Last
• Uglies
• What Would Joey Do
• When My Name Was Keooko
• Year Down Yonder
• Amulet of Samarkand
• Heat
• Parvana’s Journey
• Supernaturalist
• William Shakespeare
• Worth
• Long Way/Chicago
Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)
Novels:
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Acting and the Theatre
• All Creatures Great and Small
• Ancient Greece (Eyewitness Series)
• As Blue as a Rainy Day Without a Friend
• Book Thief
• Cry the Beloved Country
• Dark Days – America’s Great Depression
• Favorite Poems: A Quotable Anthology
• Flowers for Algernon
• Free At Last – The Struggle for Civil Rights
• Giants in the Earth
• Journey Through Heartsongs
• Mythology (Eyewitness Series)
• Nothing but the Truth
• Reflections on a Gift of a Watermelon Pickle
• Secret Life of the Bees
• Shakespeare’s Sonnets
• The Diary of Anne Frank
• The Miracle Worker
Northfield Public Schools
Novels: (continued)
• Wide Open Spaces, American Frontiers
• The Outsiders
• The Red Pony
• The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Voices of the Holocaust
• What’s So Funny?
• Who Moved My Cheese? For Teens
Short Stories:
• “The Tell-Tale Heart”
• “The Ransom of Red Chief”
• “The Lady or the Tiger”
• “My Teacher, the Hawk”
Nonfiction:
• Over the Earth I Come
Updated 9/26/2011
Grade 8
WRITING
READING (continued)
Text/Anthology:
Literature (McDougal Littell)
Text:
Write Source
Teacher Resources:
• Literature (teacher edition)
• Cry the Beloved Country (teacher
edition)
• To Kill a Mockingbird (teacher
edition)
• Dark Days (teacher edition)
• The Red Pony (teacher edition)
• Teaching Reading in the Middle
School
• Naked Reading
• Reading Reasons
• Reading Reminders
Grammar:
The Giggly Guide to Grammar
Teacher Resources:
Write Source
Elements of Style
Reviser’s Toolbox
Discovering the Writer Within
The Healing Pen
Lessons that Change Writers
Naming the World
Writing Down the Bones
Bird by Bird
Writing without Teachers
SPEAKING, LISTENING, AND
VIEWING
Text:
The Yippee Book
Page to Stage
Theater Arts I-II
ChildsPlay
Video/Audio:
“To Kill a Mockingbird”
“The Miracle Worker”
“Frontier House”
“The Red Pony”
“The Outsiders”
Teacher Resources:
Speak for Yourself
Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)
Novels:
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Acting and the Theatre
• All Creatures Great and Small
• Ancient Greece (Eyewitness Series)
• As Blue as a Rainy Day Without a Friend
• Book Thief
• Cry the Beloved Country
• Dark Days – America’s Great Depression
• Favorite Poems: A Quotable Anthology
• Flowers for Algernon
• Free At Last – The Struggle for Civil Rights
• Giants in the Earth
• Journey Through Heartsongs
• Mythology (Eyewitness Series)
• Nothing but the Truth
• Reflections on a Gift of a Watermelon Pickle
• Secret Life of the Bees
• Shakespeare’s Sonnets
• The Diary of Anne Frank
• The Miracle Worker
Northfield Public Schools
Novels: (continued)
• Wide Open Spaces, American Frontiers
• The Outsiders
• The Red Pony
• The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Voices of the Holocaust
• What’s So Funny?
• Who Moved My Cheese? For Teens
Short Stories:
• “The Tell-Tale Heart”
• “The Ransom of Red Chief”
• “The Lady or the Tiger”
• “My Teacher, the Hawk”
Nonfiction:
• Over the Earth I Come
Updated 9/26/2011
English 9: Semester 1 (includes Academy 9)
READING
Novels:
• Chinese Cinderella
• Cage
• Call of the Wild
• Color of Water
• Day No Pigs Would Die
• Farewell to Manzanar
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
• O Pioneers
• Things Fall Apart
• Tuesdays with Morrie
• Wrinkle in Time
• The Late Homecomer
• The Names
• A Separate Peace
• Great Expectations
WRITING
Text:
Writer’s Inc.
Grammar:
Writer’s Inc.
SPEAKING, LISTENING, AND
VIEWING
Video/Audio:
• One Survivor Remembers
• Swing Kids
• Life is Beautiful
• Lord of the Flies (Simpsons)
• Of Mice and Men
Spelling:
Lord of the Flies
Vocabulary:
Night
Teacher Resources:
Writer’s Inc.
Text/Anthology:
Literature (McDougal Littell)
Teacher Resources:
Literature (teacher edition)
Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)
Novels:
• Lord of the Flies
• Night
• Of Mice and Men
Poetry:
Literature (McDougal Littell)
• The Odyssey
Video/Audio:
• Nightjohn
• The Boy in Striped Pajamas
Northfield Public Schools
Short Stories:
• “Angela’s Ashes”
• “Fish Cheeks”
• “Black Boy”
• “Sacred Ground”
• “Scarlet Ibis”
• “Special Siblings”
• “The Gift of the Magi”
• “The Necklace”
• “The Lost Boys”
• “Marigolds”
• “American History”
• “Pancakes”
• “Through the Tunnel”
• “A Christmas Memory”
Updated 9/26/2011
English 9: Semester 2 (includes Academy 9)
READING
Novels:
• I Remember Mama
• Brighton Beach Memoirs
• Raisin in the Sun
• Twelve Angry Men
• Our Town
• Into the Woods
Text/Anthology:
Literature (McDougal Littell)
WRITING
Text:
Writer’s Inc.
Grammar:
Writer’s Inc.
SPEAKING, LISTENING, AND
VIEWING
Video/Audio:
• Simon Birch
• Peace Like a River
Vocabulary:
Peace Like a River
Teacher Resources:
Writer’s Inc.
Teacher Resources:
Literature (teacher edition)
Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)
Novels:
• Peace Like a River
• This I Believe
Plays:
• Romeo and Juliet
Video/Audio:
• Romeo and Juliet
• Signs
Northfield Public Schools
Updated 9/26/2011
Advanced English 9
WRITING
READING
Text:
Writer’s Inc.
Fiction Novels:
The Handmaids Tale
Nonfiction Novels:
Kafir Boy
Plays:
“New York Minute”
“With or Without You”
SPEAKING, LISTENING, AND
VIEWING
Video/Audio:
Of Mice and Men
12 Angry Men
Romeo and Juliet
Lord of the Flies
On Golden Pond
Much Ado About Nothing
West Side Story
Short Stories:
A Small Good Thing
The Ledge
All the Kings Horses
Open Boat
A Good Man is Hard to Find
A Rose for Emily
What Redburn Saw in
Lancelot’s Hey
The Things They Carried
Death by Landscape
Poetry:
“Shut In”
“Road Less Traveled”
“Out Out”
“Nothing Gold Can Stay”
“Stopping by Woods”
“The Mirror”
“Up Hill”
“To a Mouse”
“Apparently With No Surprise”
“Dulce Et Decorum Est”
“Channel Firing”
“As He Lay Dying”
“The Man He Killed”
“To His Coy Mistress”
“To the Virgins”
“To a Waterfowl”
“Traveling Through the Dark”
“Is My Team Ploughing”
“Those Winter Sundays”
“Ballad of Birmingham”
Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)
Fiction Novels:
Of Mice and Men
Lord of the Flies
Northfield Public Schools
Plays:
“Romeo and Juliet”
“12 Angry Men”
“Death of a Salesman”
“Dust of the Road”
“The Lottery”
Updated 9/26/2011
Literature and Composition 10
READING
Novels:
Fallen Angels (some years)
Walkabout (some years)
Classroom Library/Fiction:
Annie Between the States
Big Mouth and Ugly Girl
Birchbark House
Body of Christopher Creed
Bud Not Buddy
Cape Ann
Coffin Quilt
Copper Sun
Deadline
Devil on My Heels
Education of Little Tree
Elijah of Buxton
Esperanza Rising
Evil Genius
Fahrenheit 451
Fever 1793
Gardenias
God of Animals
Hanging on to Max
Hattie Big Sky
Heart Divided
Higher Power of Lucky
How I Found the Strong
Indian Captive
Into the Wild
Jim the Boy
Kira-Kira
Knights of the Hill Country
Life as We Knew It
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster
Boy
Macaroni Boy
My Mother the Cheerleader
No Promises in the Wind
Numbering All the Bones
Olives Ocean
Pictures of Hollis Woods
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Rules
Single Shard
Sounder
Tears of a Tiger
Twisted
Wednesday Wars
Welcome to the Ark
READING (continued)
Classroom Library/Fiction (cont.):
Alabama Moon
All Rivers Flow to Sea
Ark Angel
Behind Rebel Lines
Black Duck
Blood on the River
Book Thief
Boot Camp
Break with Charity
Defect
Eagle Strike
Fire From the Rock
First Shot
Flight
Flush
Good Masters Sweet Ladies
Guts
Gym Candy
Heat
I am the Messenger
Inexcusable
Jumping the Scratch
Lawn Boy
Legend of Bass Reeves
Looking for JJ
Marley and Me
Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist
Night Hoops
Open Ice
Point Blank
Running Loose
Season of Ice
So B It
Soldier Boys
The Glass Castle
The House on Mango Street
The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Thirteen Reasons Why
Three Little Words
Trigger (First)
Truth
Tweak
Twilight
Walk Two Moons
Wing Nut
Witch Child
Witch of Blackbird Pond
Wright 3
Yellow Flag
READING (continued)
Classroom Library/Non-Fiction:
Eagle Blue
Short Stories:
“Sucker”
“The Interlopers”
“The Landlady”
“The White Circle”
“The Feather Pillow”
Teacher Resources:
Sourcebook (Green Level) and
Teacher’s Edition
Lessons that Change Writers
WRITING
Text:
Writer’s Inc.
Teacher Resources:
Affective Skills Teacher Guide
SPEAKING, LISTENING, AND
VIEWING
Video/Audio:
“Speak”
Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)
Speak
No Promises in the Wind
I have Lived a Thousand Years
Northfield Public Schools
Updated 9/26/2011
English 10
READING
Lit Labs Classroom Library (Fiction):
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time
Indian
Break with Charity
Cats in Krasinski Square
Chains
Escaping Salem
Henry’s Freedom Box
Horton Hatches the Egg
Indian Captive
Known World
Lace Reader
Lorax
Loud Silence of Francine Green
Odd Velvet
Salem Falls
Sneetches
So Brave, Young, and Handsome
True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
Under the Quilt of Night
Whipping Boy
Witch Child
Against All Odds
American Born Chinese
READING (continued)
Lit Labs Classroom Library (Fiction):
(continued)
American Tragedy
Arrival
Ask Me No Questions
Giants in the Earth
Awakening
Beautiful and Damned
Dave At Night
Double Bind
Eight Men Out
Ella’s Big Chance
English Roses
Hazards of New Fortunes
Jake the Baker Makes a Cake
Las Manzanas Del Sr. Peabody
Laura’s Early Years (collection)
Little Nino’s Pizzeria
Mr. Peabody’s Apples
Witch’s Trinity
Child of My Right Hand
Dear America Series: Dreams in the
Golden Country
Esperanza Rising
READING (continued)
Lit Labs Classroom Library (Fiction):
(continued)
Finn
First Crossing
First Farm in the Valley
From the Banat to North Dakota
Hard Love
Immigrant Kids
O Pioneers
On the Fringe
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
The Windigo’s Return
Tortilla Curtain
Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Widow’s Broom
Yertle the Turtle
Lit Labs Classroom Library (Nonfiction):
120 Banned Books
1920’s from Prohibition to Charles
Lindbergh
Declarations of Independence
Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)
Nonfiction:
Black Like Me
Fiction:
Huckleberry Finn
My Antonia
The Bean Trees
The Great Gatsby
Plays:
The Crucible
Our Town
Fiction Short Stories:
“A Pair of Silk Stockings”
“A Rose for Emily”
“Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”
“In Another Country”
“Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
“Rip Van Winkle”
“Fall of the House of Usher”
“The Cask of Amontillado”
“Short Happy Life of Francis McComber”
“A Soldier’s Home”
“Sweat”
“Desiree’s Baby”
“Story of an Hour”
“The Minister’s Black Veil” – Hawthorne
“Jungle” (excerpt)
“The Raven”
Northfield Public Schools
Fiction Short Stories: (continued)
“Beat Beat Drums” (Whitman)
“Vigil Strange” (Whitman)
“Song of Myself” (Whitman)
“To Build a Fire”
“The Windigo’s Return”
“The Bingo Van”
“Queen of Diamonds”
Nonfiction Short Stories:
“A Narrative of Captivity”
“Of Plymouth Plantation”
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
“Resistance to Civil Government”
“Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
“Battle with Mr. Covey”
“Self-Reliance”
“Nature”
“Walden”
“Myth of Heroism”
“Here follow …” (A Broadstreet)
P. Henry Speech to Virginia Convention
B. Franklin Autobiography
T. Jefferson – Declaration of Independence
Poetry:
Harlem Renaissance poetry (in anthology)
Whitman and Dickenson (in anthology)
Frost poetry (in anthology)
“Incident”
Poetry: (continued)
“Harlem”
“I, Too”
“America”
“Birdies” (Frost)
“Snowbound”
“Thanatopsis”
“The Tide Rises”
“The Cross of Snow”
“Old Ironsides”
“The Red Wheelbarrow”
“Chicago”
“Somewhere I have never
traveled, gladly beyond”
“This is just to say”
Video/Audio:
My Antonia/The Great Gatsby
Huck Finn
The Bean Trees (Audio CD)
The Adventures of Huck Finn
(Audio CD)
The Great Gatsby (Audio CD)
My Antonia (Audio CD)
The Crucible
Smoke Signals
Cora Unashamed
Martin Luther King “Dream
Speech”
Updated 9/26/2011
English 10 (continued)
READING (continued)
Lit Labs Classroom Library (Nonfiction):
(continued)
Ellis Island Interviews
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Flappers and Philosophers
I’m Sorry About the Clock
If You Lived When There Was
Slavery
If You Were a Pioneer on the Prairie
In the Days of the Salem Witchcraft
Trials
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Inside the Plaza
Iola Leroy
Judge Sewell’s Apology
Lynchings in Duluth
Salem Witch Trials (by Dunn)
Savage Inequalities
The Devil on Trial: Witches,
Anarchists, Atheists, Communists,
and Terrorists in America’s
Courtrooms
The Wordy Shipmates
Through My Eyes
READING (continued)
Lit Labs Classroom Library (Nonfiction):
(continued)
Visit to Mark Twain’s House
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting
Together in the Cafeteria
Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
Without Sanctuary
Texts:
Holt: Elements of Literature (5th edition)
Teacher Resources
Holt: Elements of Literature (Teacher
Edition)
WRITING
Text:
Writer’s Inc.
Grammar:
Writer’s Inc.
WRITING (continued)
Vocabulary:
Word Smart
SPEAKING, LISTENING, AND
VIEWING
Video/Audio:
N Word (DVD/Film)
Unchained Memories (DVD/Film)
Good Night, Good Luck (DVD/Film)
In Search of History: Salem Witch
Trials (DVD/Film)
V-Ragtime (DVD/Film)
The Untouchables (DVD/Film)
The Lost Generation (DVD/Film)
Sweetland (DVD/Film)
Akeelah and the Bee (DVD/Film)
Edge of America (DVD/Film)
O’Pioneers (DVD/Film)
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
(DVD/Film)
Laramie Project (DVD/Film)
Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)
Nonfiction:
Black Like Me
Fiction:
Huckleberry Finn
My Antonia
The Bean Trees
The Great Gatsby
Plays:
The Crucible
Our Town
Fiction Short Stories:
“A Pair of Silk Stockings”
“A Rose for Emily”
“Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”
“In Another Country”
“Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
“Rip Van Winkle”
“Fall of the House of Usher”
“The Cask of Amontillado”
“Short Happy Life of Francis McComber”
“A Soldier’s Home”
“Sweat”
“Desiree’s Baby”
“Story of an Hour”
“The Minister’s Black Veil” – Hawthorne
“Jungle” (excerpt)
“The Raven”
Northfield Public Schools
Fiction Short Stories: (continued)
“Beat Beat Drums” (Whitman)
“Vigil Strange” (Whitman)
“Song of Myself” (Whitman)
“To Build a Fire”
“The Windigo’s Return”
“The Bingo Van”
“Queen of Diamonds”
Nonfiction Short Stories:
“A Narrative of Captivity”
“Of Plymouth Plantation”
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
“Resistance to Civil Government”
“Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
“Battle with Mr. Covey”
“Self-Reliance”
“Nature”
“Walden”
“Myth of Heroism”
“Here follow …” (A Broadstreet)
P. Henry Speech to Virginia Convention
B. Franklin Autobiography
T. Jefferson – Declaration of Independence
Poetry:
Harlem Renaissance poetry (in anthology)
Whitman and Dickenson (in anthology)
Frost poetry (in anthology)
“Incident”
Poetry: (continued)
“Harlem”
“I, Too”
“America”
“Birdies” (Frost)
“Snowbound”
“Thanatopsis”
“The Tide Rises”
“The Cross of Snow”
“Old Ironsides”
“The Red Wheelbarrow”
“Chicago”
“Somewhere I have never
traveled, gladly beyond”
“This is just to say”
Video/Audio:
My Antonia/The Great Gatsby
Huck Finn
The Bean Trees (Audio CD)
The Adventures of Huck Finn
(Audio CD)
The Great Gatsby (Audio CD)
My Antonia (Audio CD)
The Crucible
Smoke Signals
Cora Unashamed
Martin Luther King “Dream
Speech”
Updated 9/26/2011
Grade 10 Advanced
READING (continued)
READING
Fiction: (continued)
The Time of Butterflies
The Women of Brewster Place
Their Eyes are Watching God
To Kill a Mockingbird
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
A River Runs Through It
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
All the Pretty Horses
Billy Budd Sailor
Catch-22
Catcher in the Rye
Cold Mountain
Confessions of Nat Turner
Corrections
Enders Game
Franny and Zooey
Gone with the Wind
Infinite Jest
Iola Leroy
Lesson Before Dying
Lonesome Dove
My Name is Asher Lev
Fiction:
A Farewell to Arms
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Age of Innocence
Black Boy
Bless Me, Ultima
Daisy Miller
East of Eden
Empire Falls
Grapes of Wrath
In Cold Blood
Kite Runner
Life in the Iron Mills
Light in August
Little Women
Love Medicine
Main Street
Moby Dick
On the Road
Poisonwood Bible
Puddinhead Wilson
Red Badge of Courage
Sister Carrie
Snow Falling on Cedars
READING (continued)
Fiction: (continued)
This Boy’s Life
Thousand Acres
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
Maintenance
Roots
Sea Biscuit
The Brothers K
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
The Hours
The Namesake
Angel of a Repose
O Pioneers
Painted House
Plainsong
Portrait of a Lady
The Natural
The Shipping News
The Bluest Eyes
The Color Purple
The Good Earth
The Jungle
The Known World
Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)
Fiction Novels:
A Yellow Raft on Blue Water
The Scarlet Letter
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Awakening
The Great Gatsby
The Bean Trees
Fiction Short Stories:
Desireé’s Baby
Roman Fever
The Short Happy Life of Francis
Macomber
Various NA myths
The Cask of Amantillado
The Story of an Hour
Persecution of a Boy
The War Prayer
Cora, Unashamed
Sweat
The Bingo Van
Northfield Public Schools
Nonfiction Short Stories:
A Narrative of the Captivity
The Dividing Line
Of Plymouth Plantation
Sinners in the Hand
Resistance to Civil Government
Nature
Battle with Mr. Covey
Harriet Jacob’s Frees Herself
Oland
a Slave Narrative
Self-Reliance
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Poetry: (continued)
“Beat Beat Drums”
“Vigil Strange”
“I, Too”
“Chambered Nautilus”
“Of DeWitt Williams on His
Way to Lincoln Cemetery”
“The Weary Blues”
“Chicago”
“The Red Wheelbarrow”
“Somewhere I have never
traveled gladly beyond”
“This is just to say”
Poetry:
“The Cross of Snow”
“The Tide Rises”
“Thanatopsis”
“Snowbound”
“Old Ironsides”
“The Raven”
“Annabelle Lee”
“To Helen”
“Song of Myself”
“Incident”
“Theme from English B”
“Raisin in the Sun”
“To America”
“Harlem”
Text/Anthology:
Holt: Elements of Literature
Video/Audio:
Smoke Signals
The Crucible
Age of Innocence
A River Runs Through It
Cora, Unashamed
Edge of America
Matters of Race
Updated 9/26/2011
Grade 10 Advanced (continued)
READING (continued)
READING (continued)
Text/Anthology:
American Literature – Elements of Literature
Nonfiction:
Assassination Vacation
Autobiography of Ben Franklin
Autobiography of Fredrick Douglass
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Dust Tracks on a Road
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Into the Wild
Letters of John and Abigail Adams
Nickel and Dimed
Reading Lolita in Tehran
The Federalist Papers
Up From Slavery
Walden
Woman Warrior
Working
Teacher Resources:
Shadow of Hate – Teaching Tolerance
WRITING
Text:
Writer’s Inc.
Grammar:
Writer’s Inc.
Spelling:
Writer’s Inc.
Plays:
Glass Menagerie
A Raisin in the Sun
The Crucible
Fences
Death of a Salesman
Our Town
Vocabulary:
Word Smart (Princeton Review)
Teacher Resources:
MLA Handbook
Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)
Fiction Novels:
A Yellow Raft on Blue Water
The Scarlet Letter
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Awakening
The Great Gatsby
The Bean Trees
Fiction Short Stories:
Desireé’s Baby
Roman Fever
The Short Happy Life of Francis
Macomber
Various NA myths
The Cask of Amantillado
The Story of an Hour
Persecution of a Boy
The War Prayer
Cora, Unashamed
Sweat
The Bingo Van
Northfield Public Schools
Nonfiction Short Stories:
A Narrative of the Captivity
The Dividing Line
Of Plymouth Plantation
Sinners in the Hand
Resistance to Civil Government
Nature
Battle with Mr. Covey
Harriet Jacob’s Frees Herself
Oland
a Slave Narrative
Self-Reliance
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Poetry: (continued)
“Beat Beat Drums”
“Vigil Strange”
“I, Too”
“Chambered Nautilus”
“Of DeWitt Williams on His
Way to Lincoln Cemetery”
“The Weary Blues”
“Chicago”
“The Red Wheelbarrow”
“Somewhere I have never
traveled gladly beyond”
“This is just to say”
Poetry:
“The Cross of Snow”
“The Tide Rises”
“Thanatopsis”
“Snowbound”
“Old Ironsides”
“The Raven”
“Annabelle Lee”
“To Helen”
“Song of Myself”
“Incident”
“Theme from English B”
“Raisin in the Sun”
“To America”
“Harlem”
Text/Anthology:
Holt: Elements of Literature
Video/Audio:
Smoke Signals
The Crucible
Age of Innocence
A River Runs Through It
Cora, Unashamed
Edge of America
Matters of Race
Updated 9/26/2011
Reading Elective: British Literature
READING
Novels:
Gulliver’s Travels
1984
Angela’s Ashes
Christmas Carol
Pride and Prejudice
WRITING
Text:
Writing About Literature
Why I Write
Writer’s Inc.
Plays:
Hamlet or Midsummer Night’s Dream
Short Stories:
“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
“Le Morte d’Arthur”
“Canterbury Tales”
“Beowulf”
SPEAKING, LISTENING, AND
VIEWING
Video/Audio:
“War of the Buttons”
“In Search of the Real Frankenstein”
“Frankenstein” (75th Edition)
“Chaucer and the Canterbury
Tales”
“Wuthering Heights”
“In Search of Shakespeare”
“My Fair Lady”
“Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight”
“Famous Authors – The Bronte
Sisters”
“Jane Eyre”
Poetry:
“Do Not Go Gentle” – Dylan Thomas
British Romantic Poets Anthology
Text/Anthologies:
British Literature – McDougall Little
British Romantic Poetry – Dover
Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)
Northfield Public Schools
Updated 9/26/2011
Reading Elective: Advanced British Literature
READING
READING (continued)
Novels:
Alice’s Adventures of Wonderland
All Art is Propaganda
Angela’s Ashes
Beowulf
British Literary Manuscripts
Canterbury Tales
Christmas Carol
Emma
Facing Unpleasant Facts
Great Expectation
Gulliver’s Travels
Hound of Baskervilles
Jane Eyre
Kidnapped
Kim
Mansfield Park
Maurice, or the Fisher’s Cot: A Tale
Medieval Lays and Legends
No Fear Hamlet
Oliver Twist
Pride and Prejudice
Secret Garden
Sense and Sensibility
Shakespeare’s Words
Villette
Wuthering Heights
Text/Anthologies:
British Literature – McDougall Littell
British Romantic Poetry – Dover
WRITING
Text:
Writer’s Inc.
Writing About Literature
Why I Write
Teacher Resources:
MCA Handbook
SPEAKING, LISTENING, AND
VIEWING
Video/Audio:
“War of the Buttons”
“In Search of the Real Frankenstein”
“Frankenstein” (75th Edition)
“Chaucer and the Canterbury
Tales”
“Wuthering Heights”
“In Search of Shakespeare”
“My Fair Lady”
“Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight”
“Famous Authors – The Bronte
Sisters”
“Jane Eyre”
Plays:
Hamlet
Short Stories:
“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
“Le Morte d’Arthur”
“A Modest Proposal”
Poetry:
“Songs of Innocence” – Blake
“Lonely on a Cloud” – Wordsworth
“Tintern Abbey” – Wordsworth
“Cats” – T.S. Eliot
“Do Not Go” – Thomas
“Gentle” – Thomas
“In My Craft” – Thomas
Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)
Frankenstein
English Romantic Poetry
1984
Pygmalion
Language of Literature (McDougal-Littell)
Reading Elective: Contemporary Literature
READING
Novels:
10 Things I Wished I’d Known Before
I went Out Into the Real World
Northfield
Public
Schools
And Then There
Were
None
Art of Happiness
Audacity of Hope
Book Stops Here
Diary of a Bad Year
READING (continued)
Short Stories:
“Me Talk Pretty One Day” – David
Sedaris
Poetry:
“Wild Geese” – Mary Oliver
WRITING
Text:
Writer’s Inc.
Writing About Literature
Why I Write Updated
9/26/2011
Reading Elective: Sports Literature
READING
Fiction:
Outside Groove
Breath
Yellow Flag
Peak
Experience Pipeline
SPEAKING, LISTENING, AND VIEWING
Video/Audio:
Field of Dreams
Finding Forrester
Nonfiction:
Extraordinary Women Athletes
Where the Mountain Casts its Shadow
Left for Dead
Hold the Enlightenment
Jaguars Ripped My Flesh
Running the Amazon
Backcast
Lost in the Jungle
Short Stories:
The Death of Tommy Grimes
The Defender
The Other Pin
Poetry:
Motion: Modern American Sports Poems
This Sporting Life
Text/Anthology:
Best of Sports Short Stories
Ultimate Sports Short Stories
Norton Book of Sports
Whole Other Ball Game
Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)
Fiction Novels:
Shoeless Joe
Northfield Public Schools
Nonfiction Novels:
Swimming to Antarctica
Winterdance
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Lost in the Wild
Into Thin Air
Updated 9/26/2011
Reading Elective: Myth and Mystery
READING
Poetry:
The Odyssey (from textbook)
Plays:
Mythological Stories (from textbook)
SPEAKING, LISTENING, AND VIEWING
Video/Audio:
The Odyssey
The Prestige
In the Heat of the Night
The Power of Myth
Mythology in Literary Culture
Short Stories:
“Murders in the Rue Morgue”
“The Blue Cross”
“Quitters, Inc.”
“The Dark Snow”
Nonfiction:
World Mythology: An Anthology
Mythology Around the World
Celtic Mythology
Handbook of Chinese Mythology
In the Beginning
Japanese Tales
Mythology of the World
Speaking Land
World of Myth
Daulaires Book of Norse Myths
Egyptian Mythology
Myths of Korea
Mythology
World Mythology (Henry Holt Reference Book)
Gods and Pharaohs from Egyptian Mythology
Parallel Myths
Text/Anthologies:
Great American Mystery Stories of the Century
Classic Mystery Stories
Mythology - Textbook
Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)
The Hound of Baskervilles
Northfield Public Schools
Updated 9/26/2011
Grade 11 Writing Elective: Academic Writing
WRITING
Fiction:
Forgotten Fire
The Book Thief
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Judas Field
Mudbound
Monkey Bridge
Zookeeper’s Wife
SPEAKING, LISTENING, AND VIEWING
Video/Audio:
“Smoke Signals”
Nonfiction:
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall
Down
Bookseller of Kabul
Colors of the Mountain
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight
Life is So Good
Mayflower
In a Sunburned Country
The Last Lecture
Infidel
The Lost Daughters of China
A Mighty Heart
Long Way Gone
Text/Anthology:
Write for College and Teacher’s
Guide
Roget’s Thesaurus
Grammar:
Writer’s Inc.
Vocabulary:
Word Smart (Princeton Review)
Teacher Resources:
Differentiated Instruction in the
English Classroom
Papers, Papers, Papers
Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)
Fiction Novels:
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
3 Minutes or Less
Northfield Public Schools
Nonfiction Novels:
Three Cups of Tea
Color of Water
Death of Innocence
Dreams From My Father
First They Killed My Father
Not On Our Watch
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Updated 9/26/2011
Writing Elective: College Preparatory Writing
WRITING
Novels:
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Bastard Out of Carolina
Beauty
Beekeeper’s Apprentice
Bell Jar
Beloved
Briar Rose
Catch-22
Cold Mountain
Color Purple
Death in the Family
Enders Game
Fahrenheit 451
Go Tell It On the Mountain
Grendel
In Country
Lesson Before Dying
Looking Backward
Montana 1948
Painted Bird
Pride and Prejudice
Seize the Day
Slaughterhouse 5
Stranger
Time Machine
Winesburg Ohio
Grammar:
Write for College
Teacher generated packets on sentence types
Vocabulary:
Teacher generated lists
Teacher Resources:
MLA Handbook
Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)
Fiction Novels:
Staggerford
The Handmaid’s Tale
Plays:
“Trifles” (1-act play)
Northfield Public Schools
Short Stories:
“A Society”
“Boys and Girls”
“I Stand Here Ironing”
“Separating”
“Miss Brill”
“The Ambitious Guest”
“The Rocking-Horse Winner”
Updated 9/26/2011
Writing Elective: Nonfiction Writing
WRITING
Text:
Writer’s Inc.
Teacher Resources:
Writing Nonfiction (4/E)
Art of Creative Nonfiction
Effective Business and Nonfiction
How to Teach Nonfiction Writing
Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)
Writing Creative Nonfiction
Creating Nonfiction
Northfield Public Schools
Updated 9/26/2011
Writing Elective: Fiction Writing
WRITING
Text:
Writer’s Inc.
Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)
The Practice of Creative Writing: A Guide for Students
Northfield Public Schools
Updated 9/26/2011
Elective: Speech
WRITING
Text:
Writer’s Inc.
Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)
Communication Principles for a Lifetime (Pearson Education)
Northfield Public Schools
Updated 9/26/2011
AP World Literature
READING
SPEAKING, LISTENING, AND VIEWING
Short Stories:
The Overcoat
Exile
The Very Old Men with Wings
A Temporary Matter
Video/Audio:
Innocent Voices
Apocalypse Now
Globe Trekker – India
Vanya on 42nd Street
Poetry:
“My Papa’s Waltz”
“Geese”
“She Came and Went”
“Curiosity”
Text/Anthology:
AP Reader
Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.)
Fiction Novels:
Heart of Darkness
Beloved
Picture of Dorian Gray
Crime and Punishment
Brave New World
100 Years of Solitude
God of Small Things
Dantes “Inferno”
The Stranger
Northfield Public Schools
Plays:
“Doll House”
“No Exit”
“Waiting for Godot”
“Julius Caesar”
“Uncle Vanya”
Video/Audio:
Monsoon Wedding
Rope
Cool Hand Luke
No Direction Home
Short Stories:
“Where Are You Going Where Have You Been”
“The Moth”
Updated 9/26/2011