Common+Core--7th+Grade


 * __7-1 Literary Texts—Characters With Character__**

L=Lexile RL=Reading level

**Stories (Read Aloud/ Introduction to the Middle Ages)**
 * //Favorite Medieval Tales// (Mary Pope Osborne)

**Stories** //Medieval Korea// //Medieval Africa (Read Aloud)// //Mali (L 650)//
 * //Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village// (Laura Amy Schlitz) ( RL 5.6)
 * The World of King Arthur and His Court: People, Places, Legend, and Lore (Kevin Crossley-Holland)
 * //Anna of Byzantium// (Tracy Barrett) (L 910)
 * //Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess// (Richard Platt and Chris Riddell) (L 1010)
 * //The Seeing Stone// (Arthur Trilogy, Book One) (Kevin Crossley-Holland) (L 640)
 * //Crispin: The Cross of Lead// (Avi) (easier to read) (L 780)
 * //Adam of the Road// (Elizabeth Janet Gray) (easier to read) (L 1030)
 * //The Midwife’s Apprentice// (Karen Cushman) (easier to read) (L 1240)
 * //A Single Shard// (Linda Sue Park) (L 920)
 * //Sundiata: Lion King of Mali// (David Wisniewski) (L 820)
 * //Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta 1325-1354// (James Rumford)
 * //Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali// (Djibril Tamsir Niane)

**Riddles**
 * Old English Riddles: From the Exeter Book (Michael Alexander)

__ **Informational Texts** __

**Informational Text** //Medieval Europe// //Medieval Africa//
 * //Cathedral: the Story of Its Construction// (David Macaulay) (E) (L 1120)
 * //The Medieval World// (Philip Steele) (RL 5.2)
 * //Manners and Customs in the Middle Ages// (Marsha Groves) (RL 7.3)
 * //Joan of Arc// (Diane Stanley) (L 980)
 * Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (Mark Twain) (RL adult)
 * //Outrageous Women of the Middle Ages// (Vicki Leon) (RL 7.4)
 * //The Horrible, Miserable Middle Ages: The Disgusting Details About Life During Medieval Times// (Fact Finders: Disgusting History series) (Kathy Allen)(L 850)
 * //The Middle Ages: An Illustrated History// (Oxford Illustrated Histories) (Barbara Hanawalt) (L 1180)
 * //How Would You Survive in the Middle Ages// (Fiona MacDonald and David Salariya) (L 910)
 * //The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali and Songhay: Life in Medieval Africa// (Patricia and Fredrick McKissack) (RL 6.9)

__ **Art, Music, and Media** __

**Music** **Art**
 * Gregorian chants and madrigals
 * Arms and Armor from [|The Walters Art Museum] and [|Metropolitan Museum of Art]
 * Byzantine Art: Frescos and mosaics inside domed churches
 * Islamic Art: Caucasus textiles
 * Gothic Art & Architecture: Notre Dame; Westminster Abbey
 * Illuminated Manuscripts: "Hunt of the Unicorn Annunciation” (ca. 1500)

**__7-2 Literary Texts--Perseverance__**

**Stories**
 * //The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg// (Rodman Philbrick) (L 950)
 * //The Voyage of Patience Goodspeed// (Heather Vogel Frederick) (L 1020)
 * //Jesse// (Gary Soto) (L 900)
 * //Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy// (Gary Schmidt) (L 1000)
 * //I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade// (Diane Lee Wilson) (L 1010)
 * Treasure Island(Robert Louis Stevenson) (L 1100)
 * //Ties That Bind, Ties That Break// (Lensey Namioka) (L 830)
 * //The Miracle Worker (and Related Readings)// (William Gibson) (RL 7.1)

**Poems**
 * “Oranges” (Gary Soto) (E)

**Plays**
 * //The Miracle Worker: A Play// (William Gibson)

__ **Informational Texts** __

**Biographies**
 * //Dare to Dream!: 25 Extraordinary Lives// (Sandra McLeod Humphrey) (RL 6.4)
 * //African American Firsts: Famous Little-Known and Unsung Triumphs of Blacks in America// (Joan Potter) (RL adult)
 * //The World At Her Fingertips: The Story Of Helen Keller// (Joan Dash) (RL 7.9)
 * //The Struggle to be Strong: True Stories by Teens About Overcoming Tough Times// (Al Desetta) (L 830)
 * //Geronimo// (Joseph Bruchac) (L 900)
 * //The Civil Rights Movement in America// (Elaine Landau) (L 1080)
 * //Dare to Dream: Coretta Scott King and the Civil Rights Movement// (Angela Shelf Medearis) (L 890 RL 6.3)

**Photobiographies**
 * //Inventing the Future: A Photobiography of Thomas Alva Edison// (Marfe Ferguson Delano) (L 1140 RL 7.9)
 * //Helen Keller: A Photographic Story of a Life// (Leslie Garrett) (L 890 RL 7.3)
 * //Helen's Eyes: A Photobiography of Annie Sullivan, Helen Keller's Teacher// (Marfe Ferguson Delano) (L 1030)

**Graphical Autobiography**
 * //Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood// (Marjane Satrapi) (L 380)

__ **Art, Music, and Media** __

**Media**
 * //The Miracle Worker// (1962)

**__7-3 Literary Texts—Determination in Life and in Literature__**

**Plays**
 * //The Diary of Anne Frank: A Play// (Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett) (E) (L 481)
 * //101 Monologues for Middle School Actors: Including Duologues and Triologues// (Rebecca Young)

**Memoir**
 * //A Friend Called Anne: One Girl’s Story of War, Peace and a Unique Friendship with Anne Frank// (Jacqueline van Maarsen)(L1040)

**Stories** //General// //Comparisons to// The Diary of Anne Frank
 * //I Am David// (Anne Holm) (L 910)
 * //Z for Zachariah// (Robert C. O’Brien) (L 820)
 * //Milkweed// (Jerry Spinelli) (L510)
 * //The Devil’s Arithmetic// (Jane Yolen) (L730)

**Poems**
 * //War and the Pity of War// (Neil Philip) (L1520)

__ **Informational Texts** __

**Biographies //(includes other possible comparisons to// The Diary of Anne Frank)**
 * //Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl// (Anne Frank) (L1080)
 * //Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary: A Photographic Remembrance// (Ruud van der Rol and Rian Verhoeven) (L1030)
 * //The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: A World War II Soldier, Normandy, France, 1944// (Walter Dean Myers)
 * //Night// (Elie Wiesel) (L590)
 * //Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Wartime Sarajevo// (Zlata Filipovic) (L640)
 * //I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust// (Livia Bitton-Jackson) (L720)

**Informational Text** //World War II// //Atomic Structure/Atomic Bomb//
 * //A History of US: War, Peace, and All that Jazz// (Joy Hakim) (E) (L860)
 * //Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission// (Hampton Sides) (advanced) (L1197)
 * //True Stories of D-Day (True Adventure Stories)// (Henry Brook)
 * //Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference// (Joanne Oppenheim) (L1040)
 * //Hiroshima// (John Hersey) (L1190)
 * //Fighting For Honor: Japanese Americans and World War II// (Michael L. Cooper) (L1040)
 * //Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust// (Milton Meltzer) (L1120)
 * //Six Million Paper Clips: The Making of a Children’s Holocaust Memorial// (Peter W. Schroeder and Dagmar Schroeder-Hildebrand)
 * //Atomic Structure and Chemical Reactions: Middle Grades and High School// (Nevin Katz)
 * //The Making of the Atomic Bomb// (Richard Rhodes)

**Speeches**
 * “Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: Address to Parliament on May 13th, 1940” (Winston Churchill) (E)
 * “Declaration of War on Japan” (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

__ **Art, Music, and Media** __

**Media**
 * //The Diary of Anne Frank// (1959) (Screenplay by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett)
 * //Anne Frank, the Whole Story// (2001)
 * //Paper Clips// (HBO documentary) (2004)
 * //Bataan Rescue: The Most Daring Rescue Mission of World War II// (PBS documentary) (2005)

**__7-4 Literary Texts—Survival in the Wild__**

**Poems**
 * "The Song of Wandering Aengus" (William Butler Yeats) (E)

**Stories** //General// //Comparisons to// The Call of the Wild
 * The Call of the Wild (Jack London) (L1110)
 * //Woodsong// (Gary Paulsen) (L1090)
 * //Far North// (Will Hobbs) (L820)
 * //Incident at Hawk’s Hill// (Allan W. Eckert) (L1200)
 * //Black Hearts in Battersea// (Joan Aiken) (L 900)
 * //Touching Spirit Bear// (Ben Mikaelsen) (L670)
 * //The Higher Power of Lucky// (Susan Patron) (L1010)
 * //Call it Courage// (Armstrong Sperry)(L830)
 * //Hatchet// (Gary Paulsen) (L1020)
 * Other Will Hobbs survival tales, such as //Beardance (L890)//

**Graphic Novel**
 * //The Call of the Wild// (Puffin Graphics, Jack London)

__ **Informational Texts** __

**Biographies**
 * //Jack London: A Biography// (Daniel Dyer) (L1060)
 * //Guts// (Gary Paulsen) (L1230 NC)
 * //Will Hobbs// (My Favorite Writer Series) (Megan Lappi)

**Informational Text**
 * //Into the Ice: The Story of Arctic Exploration// (Lynn Curlee)

__ **Art, Music, and Media** __

**Media** · **__7-5 Literary Texts—Science or Fiction?__**
 * //Call of the Wild// (2009)
 * //The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon// (1997)
 * //A Cry in the Wild// (1990) (movie based on //Hatchet//)

**Stories** //“Classic” Science Fiction// //“Modern” Science Fiction (L1040)// //Easier to Read (but excellent) (L940)// //Challenging to Read (L850)//
 * //A Wrinkle in Time// (Madeleine L'Engle) (E) (L740)
 * //Dune// (Frank Herbert) (L800)
 * The War of the Worlds (H.G. Wells) (L1020)
 * The Invisible Man (H.G. Wells) (L980)
 * //I, Robot// (Isaac Asimov) (L820)
 * Journey to the Center of the Earth (Enriched Classics) (Jules Verne) [link is to audio book]
 * //The Ear, the Eye and the Arm// (Nancy Farmer//) (L660)//
 * //My Favorite Science Fiction Story// (Martin H. Greenberg) (L940)
 * //Eva// (Peter Dickinson) (L1010)
 * //The House of the Scorpion// (Nancy Farmer)(L660)
 * //Fly by Night// (Frances Hardinge) (L1080)
 * //George’s Cosmic Treasure Hunt// (Lucy and Stephen Hawking)
 * //Among the Hidden// (Shadow Children series, #1) (Margaret Peterson Haddix) (L800)
 * //George’s Secret Key to the Universe// (Lucy and Stephen Hawking)
 * //The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy// (Douglas Adams) (L1000)
 * //Ender’s Game// (Orson Scott Card) (L780)
 * //The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke// (Arthur C. Clarke)

**Audiobooks** __ **Informational Texts** __
 * //A Wrinkle in Time// (Madeleine L'Engle)

**Informational Text** //General// //Robots (Related to// I, Robot//)// //Planets/Stars (L1040)//
 * "Elementary Particles" from the //New Book of Popular Science// (E)
 * "Space Probe" from //Astronomy & Space: From the Big Bang to the Big Crunch// (Phillis Engelbert) (E)
 * //Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream// (Tanya Lee Stone)
 * //Robo World: The Story of Robot Designer Cynthia Breazeal// (Women’s Adventures in Science series) (Jordan D. Brown)
 * //Beyond Jupiter: The Story of Planetary Astronomer Heidi Hammel// (Women’s Adventures in Science series) (Fred Bortz) (L1030)
 * //Summer Stargazing: A Practical Guide for Recreational Astronomers// (Terence Dickinson)
 * //Stephen Hawking: Cosmologist Who Gets a Big Bang Out of the Universe// (Mike Venezia)
 * //Stars & Planets// (Carole Stott) (L1000)
 * //The Physics of Star Trek// (Lawrence M. Krauss) (advanced) (RL 9.0)

__ **Art, Music, and Media** __

**Music**
 * Gustav Holst, //The Planets// (1914-16)

**Media**
 * [|War of the Worlds] (The Mercury Theater on Air, October 30, 1938) (This is Orson Welles’s radio broadcast of //War of the Worlds//)

**__7-6 Literary Texts—Literature Reflects Life: Making Sense of Our World__**

**Stories** //General// //Fantasy// //Classics (L930)// //Comedy/Tragedy (L1040)// //Comedy (L830)//
 * //Home of the Brave// (Katherine Applegate) (RL 4.3)
 * //A Girl Named Disaster// (Nancy Farmer) (L730)
 * //The Dark is Rising// (Susan Cooper) (E) (L920)
 * //The Grey King// (Susan Cooper) (L930)
 * //Peter Pan in Scarlet// (Geraldine McCaughrean)
 * The Prince and the Pauper (Mark Twain) (L1160)
 * //Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories of the Supernatural// (Robert Louis Stevenson)
 * //Cyrano// (Geraldine McCaughrean) (L830)
 * Cyrano de Bergerac (Edmond Rostand)
 * //Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw// (Jeff Kinney) (L970)
 * //Letters from a Nut// (Ted L. Nancy)

**Short Stories**
 * //Woman Hollering Creek: And Other Stories// (Sandra Cisneros) (EA)
 * //Best Shorts: Favorite Stories for Sharing// (Avi)
 * //Little Worlds: A Collection of Short Stories for the Middle School// (Peter Guthrie)
 * //American Dragons: Twenty-Five Asian American Voices// (Lawrence Yep) (EA)

**Poems**
 * //I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You: Paired Poems by Men & Women// (Naomi Shihab Nye and Paul B. Janeczko)

__ **Informational Texts** __ None for this unit