LITERARY WORKS
Below is a list of all literary works that are explored and analyzed in Essentials in Literature.
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Fiction Unit
Stop the Sun – Gary Paulson
A Mother in Mannville – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Ransom of Red Chief – O. Henry
Checkouts – Cynthia Ryland
Raymond’s Run – Toni Cade Bambara
The Treasure of Lemon Brown – Walter Dean Myers
* SUMMATIVE ASSESSEMENT – The Dinner Party – Mona Gardner
Nonfiction Unit
Louisa’s Civil War – Harriet Reisen
Roughing It – Mark Twain
Ten Top Touring Areas – Edited by Aaron Teasdale
Virginia Hamilton – (Scholastic Interview Transcript)
The Jews Are to Blame – Joseph Goebbels
* SUMMATIVE ASSESSEMENT – The Great Rat Hunt – Lawrence Yep
Novel Unit
Night – Elie Wiesel (INCLUDED)
Figurative Language/Poetry Unit
“Mother to Son” – Langston Hughes, “Mother ‘O Mine” – Rudyard Kipling
“I Am in Need of Music” – Elizabeth Bishop, “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening” –
Robert Frost
“Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out” – Shel Silverstein
“I’m Nobody Who Are You?” – Emily Dickinson, “Sonnet 18” – Shakespeare
“Lady of Shalott” – Alfred Tennyson
*SUMMATIVE ASSESSEMENT – “Barter” – Sarah Teasdale