Common+Core--8th+Grade


 * __8-1 Literary Texts—Urban Settings in America__**

**Poems** **Short Stories** (//Note: These are used again in unit 2.//) **Stories** **Picture Books (Introductory Material)**
 * "Chicago" (Carl Sandburg) (E)
 * “O Captain! My Captain!” (Walt Whitman) (E)
 * //Stone Bench in an Empty Park// (Paul Janeczko)
 * Technically, It’s Not My Fault(John Grandits)
 * //American Eyes: New Asian-American Short Stories for Young Adults// (Lori Carlson) (L830)
 * //America Street: A Multicultural Anthology of Stories// (Anne Mazer) (L870)
 * //Join In: Multiethnic Short Stories// (Donald R. Gallo) (L740)
 * //The Great Fire// (Jim Murphy) (E) (L1130)
 * //KiKi Strike: Inside the Shadow City// (Kirsten Miller) (L890)
 * //The Catcher in the Rye// (J.D. Salinger)(L790)
 * //All of the Above// (Shelley Pearsall)
 * //A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories// (Richard Peck) [easy to read] (L750)
 * //Bag in the Wind// (Ted Kooser and Barry Root) (easier)
 * //The King of Dragons// (Carol Fenner) (easier) (L820)
 * //City By Numbers// (Stephen T. Johnson)

**Informational Texts** **Informational Text**
 * //The Building of Manhattan// (Donald Mackay) (E)
 * //Skyscraper// (Lynn Curlee) (L1200)
 * //The New York Subways// (Great Building Featsseries) (Lesley DuTemple) (L1100)
 * //New York// (This Land is Your Land series) (Ann Heinrichs)
 * //September 11, 2001: Attack on New York City: Interviews and Accounts// (Wilborn Hampton) (L1060)
 * //September 11, 2001// (Cornerstones of Freedom, Second Series) (Andrew Santella) (L890)
 * "The Evolution of the Grocery Bag" (//American Scholar// Magazine, Autumn 2003) (Henry Petroski) (E) (complete article available in EBSCO, Pioneer Library)
 * //America’s Top 10 Cities//(Jenny E. Tesar)( LG880)
 * //An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793// (Jim Murphy) (EA) (RL8.9)

**Art, Music, and Media** **Media**
 * Video footage from September 11, 2001

__**8-2 Literary Texts—Rural Settings in North America: “It Happened in the Country”**__ **Stories** //Rural United States// //Rural North America// **Poems** **Short Stories** (//Note: These were also used in unit 1.//) **Picture Books (Introductory Material)**
 * //Travels with Charley: In Search of America// (John Steinbeck) (E) (L1010)
 * //This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie// (Elizabeth Partridge) (E) (L1020)
 * The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain) (E) (750)
 * //Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry// (Mildred D. Taylor) (E) (L 920)
 * //The Land// (Mildred D. Taylor) (L760)
 * //Of Mice and Men// (John Steinbeck) (L630)
 * The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper) (L1350)
 * //Shane// (Jack Schaefer) (L870)
 * //The Daybreakers// (The Sackett series) (Louis L'Amour) (L930)
 * //Barrio Boy// (Ernesto Galarza)(L1140)
 * //The Incredible Journey// (Sheila Burnford) (L1320)
 * “The Railway Train” (Emily Dickinson) (E)
 * “Mending Wall” (Robert Frost) (EA)
 * //My America: A Poetry Atlas of the United States// (Lee Bennett Hopkins)
 * //You Hear Me?: Poems and Writing by Teenage Boys// (Betsy Franco)
 * //American Eyes: New Asian-American Short Stories for Young Adults// (Lori Carlson) (L830)
 * //America Street: A Multicultural Anthology of Stories// (Anne Mazer) (L870)
 * //Join In: Multiethnic Short Stories// (Donald R. Gallo) (L740)
 * //A Mountain Alphabet// (Margriet Ruurs)
 * //B is for Big Sky Country: A Montana Alphabet// (Sneed B. Collard, III and Joanna Yardley)
 * //P is for Piñata: A Mexico Alphabet// (Tony Johnston)

**Informational Texts** **Informational Text** //Rural United States// //American Science/Technical Subjects// //North America// **Additional Resources**
 * //The Alamo// (Cornerstones of Freedom, Second Series) (Tom McGowen) (L930)
 * //African-Americans in the Old West// (Cornerstones of Freedom series) (Tom McGowen) (L790)
 * //Trail of Tears// (Cornerstones of Freedom series) (R. Conrad Stein) (1000)
 * //Wild Horses I Have Known// (Hope Ryden) (L1060)
 * //Wildflowers Around the Year// (Hope Ryden)
 * California Invasive Plant Council (Invasive Plant Inventory) (E)
 * //Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet out of Idaho// (Jon Katz) (E) (L1070)
 * “The Marginal World” (1955) in //The Edge of the Sea// (Rachel Carson) (L1138)
 * //Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves// (Farley Mowat) (L1330)
 * //One Hundred & One Beautiful Small Towns in Mexico// (Guillermo Garcia Oropeza and Cristobal Garcia Sanchez)
 * History of Landscape Painting

**Art, Music, and Media** **Art**
 * Grant Wood, [|American Gothic] (1930)

**__8-3 Literary Texts—Looking Back on America__** **Poems** **Stories (Historical Fiction, From Some Non-Traditional Perspectives)**
 * "Paul Revere's Ride" (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (E) (L800)
 * “I, Too, Sing America” (Langston Hughes) (E)
 * “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” (Maya Angelou)(L1070)
 * //Hour of Freedom: American History in Poetry// (Milton Meltzer) (RL7.6)
 * //George vs. George: The American Revolution As Seen from Both Sides// (Rosalyn Schanzer) (L1120)
 * //1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving// (I Am American) (Catherine O"Neill Grace)(L1040)
 * //Cast Two Shadows: The American Revolution in the South// (Great Episodes) (Ann Rinaldi) (L610)
 * //33 Things Every Girl Should Know About Women's History: From Suffragettes to Skirt Lengths to the E.R.A.// (Tonya Bolden) (RL8.3)
 * //Good Women of a Well-Blessed Land: Women's Lives in Colonial America// (Brandon Marie Mailler) (L950)
 * //Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years// (Sarah L. Delaney and A. Elizabeth Delany) (L890)
 * //We Were There, Too!: Young People in U.S. History// (Phillip M. Hoose) (RL7.1)
 * //The Boys’ War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War// (Jim Murphy) (EA//) (L950)//
 * //Girls: A History of Growing Up Female in America// (Penny Colman) (L1020)
 * //Johnny Tremain// (Esther Forbes) (easier to read) (L1040)
 * //America’s Paul Revere// (Esther Forbes and Lynd Ward) (easier to read) (L1000)
 * //Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two// (Joseph Bruchac) (easier to read) (L910)
 * //The Year of the Hangman// (Gary Blackwood) (easier to read) (L820)

**Informational Texts** **Picture Books (Introductory Material)** **Informational Text** **Biographies**
 * //We the People// (Peter Spier)
 * "Letter on Thomas Jefferson" (John Adams) (E)
 * Preamble to the United States Constitution (1787) (E)
 * First Amendment to the United States Constitution (1791) (E)
 * //The Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution// (Linda R. Monk) (E)
 * //Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott// (Russell Freedman) (E) (L1110)
 * //The Real Revolution: The Global Story of American Independence// (Marc Aronson) (L1180)
 * //The American Revolutionaries: A History in Their Own Words 1750-1800// (Milton Meltzer) (L11220)
 * //Lincoln: A Photobiography// (Russell Freedman) (L1110)
 * //We Shall Not Be Moved: The Women's Factory Strike of 1909// (Joan Dash) (L1170)
 * //Day of Infamy, 60th Anniversary: The Classic Account of the Bombing of Pearl Harbor// (Walter Lord) (EA)
 * //The Making Of America// (Robert D. Johnston) (L1160)
 * //George Washington, Spymaster: How the Americans Outspied the British and Won the Revolutionary War// (Thomas B. Allen) (L1100)
 * //Tell All the Children Our Story: Memories and Mementos of Being Young and Black in America// (Tonya Bolden) (L1130)
 * //The Signers: The 56 Stories Behind the Declaration of Independence// (Dennis Brindell Fradin)

**Art, Music, and Media** **Art**
 * Grant Wood, [|Midnight Ride of Paul Revere] (1931)

**__8-4 Literary Texts—Authors and Artists__** **Stories** **Poems** **Picture Books (Introductory Material)**
 * //From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler// (E.L. Konigsburg) (L700)
 * //Leaving Eldorado// (Joann Mazzio) (L730)
 * //Talking With Tebe: Clementine Hunter, Memory Artist// (Mary E. Lyons) (easier)
 * //A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man// (James Joyce) (advanced) (L1120)
 * //Is This Forever, or What?: Poems & Paintings from Texas// (Naomi Shihab Nye) (RL6.5)
 * //Museum ABC// (NY Metropolitan Museum of Art) (RL1.1)
 * //Museum Shapes// (NY Metropolitan Museum of Art) (RL2.0)

**Informational Texts** **Biographies** //Artists// //Authors//
 * //Artist to Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children About Their Art// (Eric Carle, Mitsumasa Anno, and Quentin Blake) (RL7.2)
 * //Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist// (Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan) (E) (L1100)
 * //Book of Black Heroes: Great Women in the Struggle// (Tayomi Igus) (L1090)
 * //Norman Rockwell: Storyteller with a Brush// (Beverly Gherman)(L980)
 * //Sparky: The Life and Art of Charles Schulz// (Beverly Gherman) (L960)
 * //Andy Warhol, Prince of Pop// (Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan) (L1120)
 * //A Caldecott Celebration: Seven Artists and their Paths to the Caldecott Medal// (Leonard S. Marcus)
 * //Marc Chagall// (Artists in Their Time series) (Jude Welton) (L1070)
 * //Mary Cassatt: Portrait of an American Impressionist// (Tom Streissguth) (L1080)
 * //Vincent Van Gogh: Sunflowers and Swirly Stars// (Smart About Art series) (Brad Buck and Joan Holub) [easier to read]
 * //Henri Matisse: Drawing with Scissors// (Smart About Art series) (Jane O'Connor and Jessie Hartland) [easier to read] (L549)
 * //Pablo Picasso: Breaking All the Rules// (Smart About Art series) (True Kelley) [easier to read] (L562)
 * //The Lives of the Artists// (Giorgio Vasari), excerpt on Michelangelo or Leonardo [advanced readers] (L1710)
 * //Maya Angelou// (Just the Facts Biographies) (L. Patricia Kite//) (L1060)//
 * //Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women// (Cornelia Meigs) (L1150)
 * //Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon// (Leonard S. Marcus) (L1340)
 * //Mark Twain// (Just the Facts Biographies) (Susan Bivin Aller) (L1040)
 * //Bram Stoker: The Man Who Wrote Dracula// (Great Life Stories) (Steven Otfinoski) (L1160)
 * //Aung San Suu Kyi: Fearless Voice of Burma// (Whitney Stewart) (L1070)

**Informational Text** //Art// //Pictorial History//
 * //A Short Walk Around the Pyramids & Through the World of Art// (Philip M. Isaacson) (E) (L1110)
 * //Smithsonian Q&A: American Art and Artists: The Ultimate Question & Answer Book// (Tricia Wright)
 * //Buffalo Hunt// (Russell Freedman) (EA) (L1000)
 * //The Buffalo and the Indians: A Shared Destiny// (Dorothy Hinshaw Patent) (L1120)

**Art, Music, and Media** **Art** Prompt: How do painters use perspective to engage viewers in their work?
 * Édouard Manet, [|Dead Toreador] (1864)
 * Andrea Mantegna, //Lamentation over the// [|Dead Christ] (1480)
 * Michaelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, [|Supper at Emmaus] (1601)
 * Paul Cézanne, [|The Card Player] (1890-92)
 * Paolo Uccello, //Niccolo Mauruzi da Tolentino at the Battle of San Romano// (1438-40)
 * Hieronymus Bosch, //The// [|Garden of Earthly Delights] (1503-04)
 * Chuck Close, [|Fanny/Fingerpainting] (1985)
 * Sylvia Plimack Mangold, [|The Linden Tree] (1988)

**__8-5 Literary Texts—Dramatically Speaking__**
**Plays** **Speeches** **Poems** **Music Lyrics** **Stories**
 * //Sorry, Wrong Number// (Lucille Fletcher) (E)
 * //A Midsummer Night’s Dream// (William Shakespeare; adapted by Diana Stewart and illustrated by Charles Shaw) (L1302)
 * //Zora Neale Hurston: Collected Plays// (Zora Neale Hurston)
 * //The Colored Museum// (George C. Wolfe)
 * //Famous Americans: 22 Short Plays for the Classroom, Grades 4-8// (Liza Schafter, ed.)
 * “The Banking Crisis” (First Fireside Chat, Franklin Delano Roosevelt) (March 12, 1933)
 * Keynote Address to the Democratic National Convention (Barbara Jordan) (July 12, 1976)
 * “A Poem for My Librarian, Mrs. Long” in //Acolytes: Poems// by Nikki Giovanni (Nikki Giovanni) (E)
 * “The Book of Questions” (Pablo Neruda) (E)
 * “Macavity” (T.S. Eliot)
 * “Macavity,” from //Cats// (Andrew Lloyd Webber)
 * //King of Shadows// (Susan Cooper) (EA) (L1010)

**Informational Texts** **Biographies** //Playwrights// //Public Figures// //Poets// **Videographies**
 * Sorrow's Kitchen: The Life and Folklore of Zora Neale Hurston (Great Achievers series) (Mary E. Lyons) (L1040)
 * The Play's the Thing: A Story About William Shakespeare (Creative Minds Biographies) (Ruth Turk) (L1060)
 * Hitchcock on Hitchcock: Selected Writings and Interviews(Alfred Hitchcock)
 * //Franklin Delano Roosevelt// (Russell Freedman) (L1070)
 * //Barbara Jordan: Voice of Democracy (Book Report Biography)// (Lisa Renee Rhodes)
 * //Memoirs// (Pablo Neruda)
 * “T. S. Eliot” (Wikipedia)
 * //Spirit to Spirit: Nikki Giovanni// (1988)

**Art, Music, and Media** **Media**
 * //Sorry, Wrong Number// (1948)
 * //Dial M for Murder// (1954)
 * //A Midsummer Night’s Dream// (1999)
 * //Cats// (PBS Great Performances) (1998)

**__8-6 Literary Texts—“The Road Not Taken”__** **Poems** **Stories**
 * "The Road Not Taken" (Robert Frost) (E)
 * //Things I Have To Tell You: Poems and Writing by Teenage Girls// (Betsy Franco)
 * //Night Is Gone, Day Is Still Coming: Stories and Poems by American Indian Teens and Young Adults// (Annette Piña Ochoa, Betsy Franco, and Traci L. Gourdine)
 * Little Women(Louisa May Alcott) (E) (L1052)
 * //I, Juan De Pareja// (Elizabeth Borton de Trevino) (L1100)
 * //Lord of the Flies// (William Golding) (L770)
 * //The Old Man and the Sea// (Ernest Hemingway) (L940)
 * Gulliver’s Travels(Jonathan Swift) (L1220--Oxford University Press)
 * //The Sea-Wolf// (Oxford World's Classics Edition) (Jack London) (L1020)
 * //Rebecca (//Daphne du Maurier) (L880)
 * //American Dragons: Twenty-Five Asian American Voices// (Laurence Yep) (EA) (L990)
 * //The Color of My Words// (Lynn Joseph) (easier) (L840)
 * //Children of the River// (Linda Crew) (easier) (L700)
 * //Amos Fortune, Free Man// (Elizabeth Yates) (easier) (L1090)
 * //The Outsiders// (S.E. Hinton) (easier) (L750)

**Informational Texts** **Science/Technical Subjects**
 * “Trek 7, The Fractal Pond Race” (from //Math Trek: Adventures in the Math Zone//) (Ivars Peterson and Nancy Henderson) (E)

**Art, Music, and Media** **Media** **Art**
 * //Little Women// (1949)
 * //Little Women// (1994)
 * //Lord of the Flies// (1990)
 * //The Old Man and the Sea// (1958)
 * //The Old Man and the Sea// (1990)
 * //Gulliver’s Travels// (1996)
 * //The Sea Wolf// (1941)
 * Diego Velazquez,[| Juan de Pareja] (1650)