Grade 6 Sequence Overview

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1 Grade 6 Sequence Overview 1 2 weeks Wonder by R.J. Palacio (summer Reading) 2 3 weeks Sleep Unit: Homeroom Zombies by Lawrence Epstein Turn Off, Tune Out, Turn In by Marissa Lang Rethinking Sleep by David K. Randall 3 2 weeks Eleven by Sandra Cisneros short story and Turning 10 by Billy Collins Poem ( anthology) 4 2 weeks Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg- picture book with narrative writing All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury- short story Charles 5 3 weeks A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park 6 3 weeks Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai 7 3 weeks Fear Unit ( anthology) 8 3 weeks Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred D. Taylor The Gold Cadillac 9 3 weeks Disaster Unit ( anthology) 10 2 weeks Holocaust Literature Circles

2 Grade 7 Sequence Overview weeks Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt (summer Reading) *Perception vs. Reality Heartbeat 2 2 weeks Argumentative *NMSI 3 4 weeks Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson : Triangle Factory Fire / Uprising 4 3 weeks Nature at Work 5 3 weeks Drama A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens weeks Poetry 7 2 weeks Risk and Exploration 8 3 weeks Folklore *Perception vs. Reality The People Could Fly Glencoe Literature 9 3 weeks Biography Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand 10 3 weeks Fiction The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton 11 3 weeks Science Fiction Lit Circles: Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson The Giver by Lois Lowry

3 Grade 8 Sequence Overview weeks Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick (summer Reading) weeks The Treasure of Lemon Brown by Walter Dean Myers weeks Endangered by Eliot Schrefer weeks The Thrill of Horror ( anthology) weeks Forensic Anthropology Unit: What is Forensic Anthropology? by R.U. Steinberg Dead Men Talking: Solving Crime through Science by David Kohn Identifying the Victim by Angela Libal Giving Faces to the Lost by Angela Libal weeks Maya Angelou author study ( Mrs. Flowers, Caged Bird ) weeks Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King Jr weeks Approaching Adulthood weeks The Omnivore s Dilemma by Michael Pollan weeks Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

4 Grade 9 Sequence Overview 1 2 weeks 2 Accelerated/Block 3 The Bonds Between Us 3 The Bonds Between Us Tuesdays with Morrie (summer Reading) by Mitch Albom Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar 2 2 weeks And Then There Were None weeks Accelerated / Academic: Multicultural Short Story Unit from Pre-AP Multicultural prose, poetry, and nonfiction from Laying The Foundations 4 2 weeks 3 The Bonds Between Us 5 3 weeks 6 Heroes and Quests Analysis of Theme Unit: Everyday Use by Alice Walker Where Have You Gone, Charming Billy? by Tim O Brien A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin Odyssey by Homer 6 3 weeks 4 Sweet Sorrow 7 3 weeks 1 Finding Common Ground 8 3 weeks 5 A Matter of Life and Death 9 3 weeks 5 A Matter of Life and Death Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Night by Ellie Wiesel Glass Castle (Excerpts) by Jeanette Walls 10 3 weeks Developing and Maintaining Expertise Unit: The Learning Curve by Atul Gawande The Great Forgetting by Nicolas Carr 11 3 weeks 2 The Struggle for Freedom Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

5 Grade 10 Sequence Overview 1 2 weeks Lord of the Flies (summer Reading) by William Golding 2 5 weeks A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah 3 The Pursuit of (Un)Happiness Unit: Does Trying to Be Happy Make Us Unhappy? By Adam Grant Pursuing the Science of Happiness by Andrew Guest Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan 4 5 weeks Satire Unit: To Ensure Every Child Wins, Ontario Athletic Association by Pat Kelly and Perter Oldring A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift Parodies Lost: Why Satire Must Be Banned from the Internet by Steve Bogira Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut 5 3 weeks Macbeth by William Shakespeare 6 5 weeks Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer 7 3 weeks Fences by August Wilson

6 Grade 11 Sequence Overview 1 3 weeks The Things They Carried (summer Reading) by Tim O Brien 2 4 weeks Are We Fooling Ourselves Unit: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman The Backfire Effect by David McRaney One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest by Ken Kesey 3 3 weeks The Crucible by Arthur Miller 4 3 weeks The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot 5 4 weeks The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 6 3 weeks The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 7 4 weeks Abolition of Slavery Unit: The Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln Slavery a Positive Good by John C. Calhoun The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro by Frederick Douglass 8 4 weeks In The Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez 9 AP: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Freakanomic Steven J. Dubner and Steven Levitt So We Read On by Maureen Corrigan (Companion text for Gatsby)

7 Grade 12 Sequence Overview 1 3 weeks The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (Career and College (summer Reading) AP: Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 2 4 weeks Narrating Women s Lives Unit: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Blond by Natasha Tretheway Incident by Natasha Tretheway Woman in Nineteenth Century by Margaret Fuller In Search of Our Mothers Gardens by Alice Walker A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 3 3 weeks Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Excerpts) 4 3 weeks The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde 5 3 weeks The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 6 3 weeks Hamlet by William Shakespeare 7 4 weeks Inferno by Dante Alighieri (Translated by John Ciardi 8 AP: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka The Awakening by Kate Chopin Revisit The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald