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"Teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom."   Psalms 90:12 

Summer Reading Lists!

6th Grade Reading List

7th Grade Reading List

English and Literature Syllabi

Eighth Grade

Literature Goals for Students:

• Read, study, discuss, as well as write about literature

• Strengthen reading comprehension skills

• Broaden vocabulary

• Sharpen interpretive skills

• Deepen understanding of character and plot development

• Enrich moral beliefs

 Writing Goals for Students:

• Write clear, effective, content rich two chunk structured paragraphs

• Use topic, concrete detail, commentary, and concluding sentences

• Demonstrate interpretive skills in literature and experiential assignments

• Comprehend function of Parts of Speech in sentences 

• Employ simple, compound and complex sentences

• Vary sentence structure and word choice

• Use correct spelling, capitalization, and punctuation

Texts,  Novels, Short Stories and Plays:

English Workshop Handbook

Exploring Literature, Anthology 

My Brother Sam Is Dead, James & Christoper Collier 

Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare

A Christmas Memory, Truman Capote

Our Town, Thornton Wilder

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

Seventh Grade

This course is designed to augment the gifted student's already confident use of oral and written language as well as improve her advanced reading and comprehension skills.

Literature Goals for Students:

• Read, study, discuss, & write about short stories, novels, poems, and plays with a  focus  on plot, characterizaton, setting, theme, and conflict

• Study the literature's vocabulary through defining, context clues, discussion and memorization to broaden vocabulary and to prepare for standardized testing

• Discuss and analyze authors' works and their lives as they pertain to their writing

• Improve reading comprehension skills to guarantee success in all other courses and for standardized reading tests

Writing Goals for Students:

• Write clear, effective, content rich one chunk structured paragraphs

• Employ topic, concrete detail, commentary, and conclusion sentences

• Use simple, compound and complex sentences

• Vary sentence structure and word choice

• Understand the Parts of Speech and how they work in sentences

• Use correct spelling, capitalization, and punctuation

Texts, Novels, Short Stories and Plays:

English Workshop Handbook

Tales from World Epics, John Marcatante

Nine Muses, Modern Plays from Classic Myths, Wim Colman

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

Call of the Wild, Jack London

The Pearl, John Steinbeck

Daddy-Long-Legs, Jean Webster

A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare  

Introduction to Literature, Anthology