Grade+8,+Unit+1

== = = =UNIT 1: AMERICA AND ITS AUTHORS= = = =ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How are literary elements demonstrated in various genres of literature?=

=LITERARY TEXTS--= =ANTHOLOGIES:=
 * =// Family Matters – Perfection Learning //=
 * =// Timeless Voice, Timeless Themes – Prentice Hall Literature //=

=POETRY:=
 * ="Taught me purple" by Evelyn Tooley Hunt=
 * ="The City is So Big" by Richard Garcia=
 * ="Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden=
 * ="Mending Wall" by Robert Frost (OPTIONAL)=

=SHORT STORIES:=
 * ="The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe (E)=
 * ="Charles" by Shirley Jackson (E)=
 * ="Raymond's Run" by Toni Cade Bambara (OPTIONAL)=

=INFORMATIONAL TEXTS--= =NONFICTION:=
 * ="Debbie" by James Herriot (E)=
 * ="The Street" by Richard Wright (E)=
 * =//Travels with Charley: In Search of America// by John Steinbeck (OPTIONAL)=
 * ="Darkness at Noon" by Harold Krents (OPTIONAL)=
 * ="Forest Fire" by Anais Nin (OPTIONAL)=

=SUPPLEMENTAL "TENS" TEXTS--= = = =ADDITIONAL RESOURCES--= = = =ART, MUSIC AND MEDIA--= =MEDIA:= = = =FUNDAMENTALS--= =WRITING:= = = =GRAMMAR AND USAGE:= = = =MECHANICS:= = = =TERMINOLOGY:=
 * =//Speak// by Laurie Halse Anderson=
 * =//Go Ask Alice// by Anonymous=
 * =//Blackwater// by Eve Bunting=
 * =//They Cage the Animals At Night// by Jennings Michael Burch=
 * =//Swallowing Stones// by Joyce McDonald=
 * =//Scorpions// by Walter Dean Meyers=
 * =//Slam!// by Walter by Dean Meyers=
 * =//Brian's Winter// by Gary Paulsen=
 * =//Hatchet// by Gary Paulsen=
 * =//Night John// by Gary Paulsen=
 * =//Soldier’s Heart// by Gary Paulsen=
 * =//Holes// by Louis Sachar=
 * =//Buried Onions// by @Gary Soto=
 * =//Dicey's Song// by Cynthia Voigt=
 * =//Homecoming// by Cynthia Voigt=
 * =//Soldier X// by Don Wulffson=
 * =Study Guide: "Tell-Tale Heart"=
 * =Video: "Tell-Tale Heart" (YouTube.com)=
 * ="Sane or Insane?" Brainstorming Chart=
 * =Visual Writing Prompts at Random Image Generator=
 * =Nothing new this unit=
 * =Comma usage=
 * =Genre=
 * =Explicit textual evidence=
 * =Implicit textual evidence=
 * =Setting=
 * =Text structures=
 * =Characterization=
 * =Plot=
 * =Suspense=
 * =Mood=
 * =Point-of-view=
 * =Topic sentence=

=RETURN to 7-12 ELA Curriculum=

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