Books+and+Short+Stories

On this page, we'll list all of the books and short stories in our classes so that we use so that we don't have any overlap.


 * 5th **

Prentice Hall Literature (short stories) - this will be new for next year and will cross with the writing curriculum, for example it will incorporate comparing and contrasting written pieces of work //Among the Hidden// by Margaret Haddix (but I don't think we will be using this novel next year, it will be replaced with short stories from Prentice Hall Literature) //Freak the Mighty// by Rodman Philbrick Biographies - done after reading //Freak the Mighty// (examples, Maya Angelou, Helen Keller, Georgia O'Keeffe, Gorbachev, Hirohito, Susan B. Anthony, Rosa Parks, Lincoln, Jesse Ventura, etc.) //Nory Ryan Song// by Patricia Reilly Giff //The Eygpt Game// by Zilpha Keatly Snyder
 * 6th **

//Chains// by Laurie Halse Anderson (L.A. and Social Studies) //The Boy in the Striped Pajamas// by John Boyne (Supported Reading class) //Uglies// by Scott Westerfeld (Reading lit circles) //The Adoration of Jenna Fox// by Mary E. Pearson (Reading lit circles) //The Giver// by Lois Lowry (Reading lit circles) //The Misfits// by James Howe (Reading lit circles) I used to use //Hatchet// by Gary Paulsen, but I don't think I will next year since I am going to try to build the students' reading skills using their independent reading books instead. In literature circles, the students are allowed to choose their second books for the marking period. Some of their choices in the past have been: //The Candymakers// by Wendy Mass, //My Sister's Keeper// by Jodi Picoult, //The Book Thief// by Markus Zusak, //Lord of the Flies// by William Golding, and //Monster// by Walter Dean Myers.
 * 7th **


 * 8th **

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare I have also used To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Night by Elie Wiesel, and Animal Farm by George Orwell