6th Grade Unit List (In sequential order of instruction)
- Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
- Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
- If Stones Could Speak by Mark Aronson
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth Speare
7th Grade Unit List (In sequential order of instruction)
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- The Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- “Behind the Scenes” by Elizabeth Keckley
- Written in Bone by Sally Walker
- “How to Write a Memoir” by William Zinsser
8th Grade Unit List (In sequential order of instruction)
- excerpt from Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- Call of the Wild by Jack London
- Sugar Changed the World by Marina Budhos and Marc Aronson
- “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe, and other short stories
