Correlation of Connecticut Framework Standards for English Language Arts, Grades 6-8, to Mirrors & Windows: Connecting with Literature Level III

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1 Correlation of Connecticut Framework Standards for English Language Arts, Grades 6-8, to Mirrors & Windows: Connecting with Literature Level III Unit 1 Introduction to Fiction 4 1.1d, 2.1d Understanding Plot 6 1.1d, 2.1d Charles by Shirley Jackson 8 1.1a, 1.1b, 1.1f,, 1.3a, 1.4a, 1.4b, 2.1c, 2.1d, 2.3a, 3.1a, 3.1c, 3.2b Understanding Characters d, 2.3a The Treasure of Lemon Brown by Walter 1.1a, 1.1b, 1.1d, 1.1e, 1.1f,, 1.3a, Dean Myers a, 2.1c, 2.1d, 2.4a, 3.1c, 3.2b, 3.2f Cultural Connection 27, 3.2d Grammar & Style a, 4.3b A Mother in Mannville by Marjorie 1.1a, 1.1b, 1.1f,, 1.3a, 1.3c, 2.1c, Kinnan Rawlings d, 2.3a, 2.4f, 3.1a, 3.1c, 3.2b Vocabulary & Spelling a, 4.3b The Journey by Duane BigEagle a, 1.1b,, 1.3a, 1.4a, 1.4b, 2.1c, 2.3c, Cultural Connection 49 The Drummer Boy of Shiloh by Ray 1.1a, 1.1b, 1.1e,, 1.3a, 1.3c, 2.1c, Bradbury d, 3.1a, 1.2a, 1.2c, 1.2e from Echoes of Shiloh by Shelby Foote 61 Gary Keillor by Garrison Keillor a, 1.1b, 1.1d,, 1.3a, 1.4a, 2.3a,, 2.1c, 2.1d O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman 74 Grammar & Style a, 4.3b, 4.3c Checkouts by Cynthia Rylant a, 1.1b, 1.1f,, 1.3a, 1.4a, 2.1c, 2.1d, 2.3a, Oranges by Gary Soto a, 1.1b, 1.1f,, 1.3a, 1.4a, 2.1c, 2.1d, 2.3a, Last Night by Fae Myenne Ng a, 1.1b, 1.1f,, 1.3a, 1.4a, 2.1c, 2.1d, 2.3a, 2.3c, History Connection 92 Vocabulary & Spelling a, 4.3b, 4.3c 1

2 Raymond s Run by Toni Cade Bambara a, 1.1e, 1.1f, 1.4a, 1.2a, 1.2c, 1.2e, 2.1c, 2.1d, 3.1a, 3.1c, 3.2b Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes a, 1.1b, 1.1c, 1.1f, 1.2a, 1.2d, 1.2e, 1.3e, 1.4a, 1.4b, 2.1c, 2.1d, 2.3a, 3.1c, 3.2b For Your Reading List d, 1.2g, 1.4a, 2.2a Writing Workshop d, 2.2b, 3.1b, 3.1c, 3.2a, 3.2b, 3.2c, 4.3a, 4.3b, 4.3c Speaking & Listening Workshop c, 3.1a, 3.2a, 3.2b, 4.2b Test Practice Workshop c, 2.1c, 2.1d, 3.1c, 3.2b, 4.3a, 4.3b Unit 2 Understanding Point of View b, 2.1a The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe a, 1.1b, 1.1f,, 1.3a, 1.3c, 1.4a, 1.4b, 2.1c, 2.1d, 1.1b, 1.1f, 1.2f Born Worker by Gary Soto a, 1.1b, 1.1f,, 1.2f, 1.1a, 1.1b,, 1.2f, 2.3a, Grammar & Style a, 4.3b, 4.3c Sweet Potato Pie by Eugenia Collier a, 1.1b, 1.1e, 1.1f,, 1.2f, 1.4a, 2.3a, 3.1c, 3.2b Vocabulary & Style a, 1.3d Miss Butterfly by Toshio Mori a, 1.1b,, 1.3a, 2.3a, 2.3c, 2.4d, 3.1a,, 3.2f Cultural Connection 183 The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry a, 1.1b, 1.1f,, 1.3a, 1.4a, 2.1c, 2.1d, 2.3a, 3.1a, 3.1c, 3.2b Grammar & Style a, 4.3b, 4.3c Men on the Moon by Simon Ortiz a, 1.1b, 1.1f,, 1.3a, 1.4a, 1.4b, 2.3a, 2.3c,, 3.2f Primary Source Connection Working on the Moon by Edwin Aldrin, Jr. 208 The Medicine Bag by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve 211 Cultural Connection The Old Grandfather and His Little Grandson by Leo Tolstoy a, 1.1b, 1.1f,, 1.2f, 1.3a, 1.4a, 2.1d, 2.3b, 2.3c, 2.4b, 2.4d, 2.4e, 2.4f, 3.1c, 3.2b Moon by Chaim Potok a, 1.1b, 1.1f,, 1.2f, 1.3a, 1.3c, 2.1c, 2.1d, 2.3a, 2.3c, 1.1a, 1.1f, 1.2a, 1.2c, 1.2e, 1.2f The Story of Iqbal Masih by David L. Parker 238 Grammar & Style b, 4.3b 2

3 Luke Baldwin s Vow by Morley Callaghan 1.1a, 1.1f,, 1.2f, 1.4a, 2.3a, 3.1c, 3.2b 244 Lose Now, Pay Later by Carol Farley a, 1.1f, 1.2a, 1.2c, 1.2d, 1.2e, 2.3a, 3.1c, 3.1d, 3.2b For Your Reading List g, 2.3b, 2.3c, 2.4d Writing Workshop b, 3.1c, 3.1d, 3.2a, 3.2b, 3.2c, 3.2f, 4.3a, 4.3b, 4.3c Speaking & Listening Workshop a, 3.2a, 3.2b, 3.2f, 4.2b Test Practice Workshop c, 2.3a, 3.1c, 3.2b, 4.3a, 4.3b Unit 3 Introduction to Nonfiction d, 2.1a Mrs. Flowers from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou 281 Ishi in Two Worlds by Theodora Kroeber 290 Science Connection 293 Yana People to Receive Ishi s Brain by Robert Fri a, 1.1b, 1.1f, 1.2a, 1.2c, 1.2e, 1.3a, 2.1a, 2.3c, 3.1c, 3.2b 1.1a, 1.1b, 1.1f, 1.2a, 1.2d, 1.2e, 1.3a, 1.4a, 2.4a, 3.1c, 3.2b Understanding the Essay d, 2.1a Good Housekeeping by Bailey White a, 1.1b, 1.1f,, 1.3c, 1.4a, 2.1a, 2.1c, 2.1d, 2.3a, Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time by Paul Rogat Loeb 1.1a, 1.1b, 1.1c, 1.1f,, 1.2f, 1.3a, 2.4a, 2.4d, 2.4e, 3.1c, 3.1d, 3.2b, 3.2d 312 I Was Born at the Wrong Time by Angela Shelf Medearis 322 Grammar & Style a, 4.3b, 4.3c Epiphany: The Third Gift by Lucha Corpi 325 Grammar & Style b, 4.3a The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl by Elizabeth Wong 335 Grammar & Style a, 4.3b, 4.3c Proclamation of the Indians of Alcatraz 341 History Connection 344 Vocabulary & Spelling a, 1.3d from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad by Ann Petry a, 1.1b, 1.1d, 1.1f,, 1.2f, 1.3a, 1.4a, 1.1a, 1.1b,, 1.2f, 1.4a, 2.3c, 3.1a, 1.1a, 1.1b, 1.2a, 1.2d, 1.2e, 1.4a, 1.4b, 2.2a, 2.3c, 2.4a, 3.1c, 3.2b 1.1a, 1.1b, 1.1f,, 1.3a, 2.1c, 2.1d, 2.3a, 2.4a, 2.4e, 3

4 from Our Struggle Is Against All Forms of Racism by Nelson Mandela 354 from If You Could Be My Friend presented by Litsa Boudalika 359 Jerusalem by Naomi Shihab Nye 370 from The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley 372 Appearances Are Destructive by Mark 1.1a, 1.1b, 1.1f,, 1.3a, 2.1c, 2.1d, 2.3a, 2.4a, 2.4e, 1.1a, 1.1b, 1.1f, 1.2a, 1.2c, 1.2e, 1.3a, 2.2a, 2.2b, 2.3a, 2.3c, 1.1a,, 1.4a, 3.1c, 3.2b 1.1a, 1.2a, 1.2c, 1.2e, 2.4f, 3.1c, 3.2b Mathabane 376 For Your Reading List g, 2.3b, 2.3c, 2.4d, 2.4e Writing Workshop b, 3.1c, 3.2a, 3.2b, 3.2c, 3.2f, 4.3a, 4.3b, 4.3c Speaking & Listening Workshop a, 3.2a, 3.2b, 3.2f, 4.2b Test Practice Workshop f, 1.3c, 2.4a, 3.1c, 3.2b, 4.3a, 4.3b Unit 4 Introduction to Informational Text and Visual Media 394 A Tale of Two Rocks by Valerie Jablow a, 2.4f 1.1a, 1.1b, 1.1f, 1.2a, 1.2d, 1.2e, 1.2f, 1.3a, 1.4a, 2.1a, 2.1c, 2.1d, 2.2a, 2.2b, 3.1c, 3.2b, 3.2d Grammar & Style b, 4.2a, 4.3a Scale of Geologic Time a, 1.1b, 1.1d, 1.1e, 1.2a, 1.2d, 1.2e, 2.4f, Science Connection 409 On the Relativity of Time by Wolfgang F. Pauli 410 Indian Cattle by Eugene Rachlis a, 1.1b, 1.1c,, 1.3a, 1.4a, 2.4a, Primary Source Connection Counting Coup on a Wounded Buffalo by Chief Plenty-Coups 419 Grammar & Style b, 4.2a Murder and More Mushroom Mayhem 1.1a, 1.1b, 1.1f,, 1.3a, 2.1c, 2.1d, by Elio Schaechter a, 3.1a, Too Soon a Woman by Dorothy M. Johnson a, 1.1b, 1.1f,, 1.3a, 2.1c, 2.1d, 2.3a, 3.1a, Vocabulary & Spelling d, 4.3c How to Use a Compass by Kjetil Kjernsmo a, 1.1b, 1.1d,, 1.3a, 1.4a, 2.4a, 3.1a, 3.1c, 3.2b, 3.2b Orienteering: The Thinking Sport by David LaRochelle 437 4

5 Obi-Wan Kenobi: Jedi Knight from Star Wars Episode I: The Visual Dictionary by Dr. David West Reynolds 440 Cultural Connection a, 1.2e, 2.4a Industrial Light & Magic, Part 1: History by Dr. David West Reynolds a, 1.1b, 1.1d, 1.1e,, 1.4a, 2.4a, 2.4f, 3.1c, 3.2b from Chac by Alan Rabinowitz a, 1.1b, 1.1f,, 1.3c, 2.3c, 3.1c, 3.2b, 3.2d London Underground Map by Harry 1.1a, 1.1f,, 3.1c, 3.2b, 3.2f Beck 456 For Your Reading List c, 1.2g Writing Workshop b, 3.1c, 3.2a, 3.2b, 3.2c, 3.2f, 4.3a, 4.3b, 4.3c Speaking & Listening Workshop f, 3.1a, 3.2f Test Practice Workshop f, 1.3c, 3.1c, 3.2b, 4.3a, 4.3b Unit 5 Introduction to Poetry a, 1.1d, 2.1c, 2.1d Understanding Imagery and Figurative 1.1a, 2.1c, 2.1d Language 476 Night Clouds by Amy Lowell a, 1.1b,, 2.1c, 2.1d, 3.1c, 3.2b, 3.2d Dreams by Langston Hughes a, 1.1b,, 1.2f, 2.1c, 2.1d, 2.3c, A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes 484, 1.2f. 2.1c, 2.1d Understanding Sound Devices b, 2.1c, 2.1d The Naming of Cats by T. S. Eliot a, 1.1b,, 2.1c, 2.1d, 3.1a, 3.1c, 3.2b, 4.1a Cultural Connection 490 Grammar & Style a, 4.3b, 4.3c Pretty Words by Elinor Wylie a, 1.1b, 1.1d, 1.3a, 1.4a, 2.1c, 2.1d, 3.1a, 3.1c, 3.2b Vocabulary & Spelling a, 1.3c, 1.3d The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 498 Cultural Connection a, 1.2d, 1.2e from Immigrant Kids by Russell Freedman 501 The Other Pioneers by Roberto Félix Salazar 505 History Connection a, 1.1b, 1.2a, 1.2b, 1.2e, 1.3a, 2.1c, 2.1d, 2.3b, 3.1a, 3.1c, 3.2b 1.1a, 1.1b,, 1.2f, 1.4a, 1.4b, 2.1c, 2.1d, 2.4a, 5

6 Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko a, 1.1b, 1.2a, 1.2b, 1.2e, 1.4a, 1.4b, 2.1c, 2.1d, 2.4a, If I can stop one Heart from breaking by 1.1a, 1.1b, 1.1d,, 1.2f, 1.3a, 1.4a, Emily Dickinson c, 2.1d, 2.4a, He ate and drank the precious words by 1.1a, 1.1b, 1.1d,, 1.2f, 1.3a, 1.4a, Emily Dickinson c, 2.1d, 2.4a, Legacies by Nikki Giovanni a, 1.1b,, 2.1c, 2.1d, 2.2a, 2.2b, 2.3c, 2.4a, 2.4d, 2.4e, I Ask My Mother to Sing by Li-Young 1.1a, 1.1b,, 2.1c, 2.1d, 2.2a, 2.2b, Lee c, 2.4a, 2.4d, 2.4e, Grammar & Style b, 4.2b your little voice Over the wires came 1.1a,, 2.1c, 2.1d, 3.1c, 3.2b leaping by E. E. Cummings 523 Lyric 17 by José Garcia Villa a, 1.1b, 1.2a, 1.2d, 1.2e, 1.4a, 3.1c, 3.2b For Your Reading List g, 1.4a, 1.4b Writing Workshop b, 3.1c, 3.2a, 3.2b, 3.2c, 3.2d, 3.2f, 4.3a, 4.3b, 4.3c Speaking & Listening Workshop a, 3.2a, 3.2b, 3.2f, 4.2b Test Practice Workshop f, 1.3c, 2.1c, 2.1d, 3.1c, 3.2b, 4.3a, 4.3b Unit 6 Understanding Meaning in Poetry c, 2.1d Southbound on the Freeway by May 1.1a, 1.1b, 1.1d, 1.1f,, 1.4a, 1.4b, Swenson c, 2.1d, 2.2a, Grammar & Style a, 4.3b, 4.3c Southern Mansion by Arna Bontemps a, 1.1b,, 1.4a, 1.4b, 2.1c, 2.1d, 2.4a, 3.1c, 3.2b Bats by Randall Jarrell a, 1.1b, 1.1c,, 2.1c, 2.1d, 2.4a, Science Connection a, The Bat by Theodore Roethke 554 Grammar & Style 4.1b, 4.2b The Choice by Dorothy Parker a, 1.1b,, 1.3a, 1.4a, 2.1c, 2.1d, 2.2a, Ode to My Socks/Oda a los calcetines by 1.1a, 1.1b, 1.1f,, 1.3a, 1.4a, 2.1c, Pablo Neruda d, 2.2a, 2.4a, Grammar & Style a, 4.3b, 4.3c Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence 1.1a, 1.1b, 1.1c,, 1.2f, 1.3a, 2.1c, Thayer d, 2.2a, 2.4f, 3.1a, 3.1c, 3.2b Cultural Connection 568 Paul Revere s Ride by Henry Wadsworth 1.1a, 1.1b, 1.1d,, 1.3a, 2.1c, 2.1d, Longfellow a, 3.1a, 3.1c, 3.2b, 4.1a History Connection 576 6

7 , 1.2d, 2.1c, 2.1d, 3.2d from Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther Forbes 578 Vocabulary & Spelling a, 1.3c Grandma Ling by Amy Ling a, 1.1b, 1.1e,, 2.1c, 2.1d, 3.1a, My Mother Juggling Bean Bags by James Mitsui a, 1.1e, 1.2e, 2.1c, 2.1d, 2.3c, 2.4d, 2.4e Exile by Judith Ortiz Cofer a, 1.1b,, 1.2f, 1.4a, 1.4b, 2.1c, 2.1d, 2.2a, Birdfoot s Grampa by Joseph Bruchac a, 1.1b,, 1.2f, 1.4a, 1.4b, 2.1c, 2.1d, 2.2a, 3.1c, 3.2b The Time We Climbed Snake Mountain 1.1a, 1.1b,, 1.2f, 1.4a, 1.4b, 2.1c, by Leslie Marmon Silko d, 2.2a, 2.3c, 3.1c, 3.2b The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert 1.1a, 1.1c,, 2.3a, 3.1a, 3.1c, 3.2b Service 594 Nikki-Rosa by Nikki Giovanni a, 1.1d,, 1.4a, 2.4d, 3.1c, 3.2b For Your Reading List g, 2.3b, 2.3c, 2.4d, 2.4e Writing Workshop b, 3.1c, 3.2a, 3.2b, 3.2c, 3.2f, 4.3a, 4.3b, 4.3c Speaking & Listening Workshop a, 3.2a, 3.2b, 3.2f, 4.2b Test Practice Workshop c, 2.1c, 2.1d, 3.1c, 3.2b, 4.3a, 4.3b Unit 7 Introduction to Drama a, 2.1c, 2.1d The Dying Detective by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, dramatized by Michael and Mollie Hardwick 619 Cultural Connection 629 Vocabulary & Spelling a, 1.3d The Diary of Anne Frank, Act I by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett 640 Primary Source Connection from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 678 Grammar & Style b, 4.3a The Diary of Anne Frank, Act II by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett a, 1.1b, 1.1c, 1.1d, 1.1f,, 1.2f, 1.3a, 1.3c, 2.1d, 2.2a, 2.3a, 3.1c, 3.2b 1.1a, 1.1b, 1.1c, 1.1d, 1.1e, 1.1f,, 1.2f, 1.3c, 2.2a, 2.3a, 2.4a, 2.4d, 3.1a, 3.1c, 3.2b, 3.2f, 2.1a, 2.3a Primary Source Connection 1.1b, from All But My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein 708 Grammar & Style a, 4.3b, 4.3c 1.1a, 1.1b, 1.1d, 1.1f, 1.2a, 2.1c, 2.1d, 2.2a, 2.3a, 2.4d, 2.4e, 7

8 Sorry, Right Number by Stephen King a, 1.1b, 1.1f,, 1.4a, 2.1c, 2.1d, 2.3a, 3.1c, 3.2 For Your Reading List g, 1.4a Writing Workshop b, 3.1c, 3.2a, 3.2b, 3.2c, 3.2d, 3.2e, 3.2f, 4.3a, 4.3b, 4.3c Speaking & Listening Workshop a, 3.2a, 3.2b, 3.2f, 4.2b Test Practice Workshop e, 1.1f, 1.3c, 3.1c, 3.2b, 4.3a, 4.3b, Unit 8 Introduction to Folk Literature a, 2.1a, 2.1c, 2.1d Legend of the Feathered Serpent by Antonio Hernández Madrigal a, 1.1b, 1.1c, 1.1d, 1.1f,, 1.3a, 2.1c, 2.1d, 2.2a, 2.3a, 2.3c, 2.4e, 3.1c, 3.2b, 3.2d History Connection 754 Pecos Bill by Adrien Stoutenberg a, 1.1b,, 1.4a, 2.1b, 2.1c, 2.1d, 3.1c, 32.2b, 3.2d, 4.3a, Grammar & Style a, 4.3b, 4.3c Coyote Steals the Sun and Moon retold by Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz a, 1.1b,, 1.3a, 2.2a, 2.3c, 2.4d, 2.4e, Where the Girl Rescued Her Brother by 1.1a, 1.1b, 1.1c,, 1.2f, 2.1a, 2.1c, Joseph Bruchac and Gayle Ross d, 2.2a, 2.3a, 2.3c, 2.4e, 3.1c, 3.2b, 3.2f History Connection 782 Grammar & Style a, 4.3b, 4.3c The People Could Fly by Virginia Hamilton a, 1.1b,, 2.2a, 2.3c, 2.4a, 2.4f,, 4.1b, 4.3a Swing Low, Sweet Chariot f, Blackbeard s Last Fight by Richard 1.1a, 1.1b,, 1.3c, 2.3a, 3.1a, 3.1c, Walser b, 3.2d Vocabulary & Spelling a, 1.3d Barbara Frietchie by John Greenleaf 1.1a, 1.1b, 1.2a, 1.2c, 1.2e, 1.2f, 1.3a, 1.4a, Whittier a, 2.1c, 2.1d, 2.2a, Cultural Connection 802 John Henry Blues, anonymous a, 1.1b,, 2.1c, 2.1d, 2.3a, 2.3c, 2.4a, 2.4e, 3.1a, Annie Christmas by Walker Brents 808 Paul Bunyan of the North Woods by Carl Sandburg 814 The Ole Feller Recollects How Joe Fournier Became Paul Bunyan by D. Laurence Rogers 818 The Souls in Purgatory, anonymous, retold by Guadalupe Baca-Vaughn a, 1.1b,, 2.1c, 2.1d, 2.3a, 2.3c, 2.4a, 2.4e, 3.1a, 1.1a, 1.1b,, 2.1c, 2.1d, 2.4a, 3.1a, 3.1c, 3.1d, 3.2b, 1.3a, 2.4a 1.1a, 1.1b, 1.1d,, 1.4a, 2.1c, 2.1d, 2.2a, 2.3b, 2.3c, 2.4e, 3.1c, 3.2b 8

9 Gatored Community by Barbara and David P. Mikkelson 829 Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving 836 María Sabida by Judith Ortiz Cofer a, 1.1b, 1.1d,, 1.3a, 2.2a, 2.4a, 1.1a, 1.1b, 1.1f,, 2.1c, 2.1d, 2.3a, 1.1a, 1.1b,, 1.4a, 2.1c, 2.1d, 2.3c, 3.1c, 3.2b For Your Reading List g, 2.1c, 2.1d, 2.3c Writing Workshop b, 3.1c, 3.2a, 3.2b, 3.2c, 3.2d, 3.2e, 3.2f, 4.3a, 4.3b, 4.3c Speaking & Listening Workshop a, 3.2a, 3.2b, 3.2d, 3.2e, 3.2f, 4.2b Test Practice Workshop c, 2.1c, 2.1d, 3.1c, 3.2b, 4.3a, 4.3b 9

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