7 Reading 7

Note: Some of the activities require video and audio plug ins, ex. Shockwave and Direct X.  You must install these programs once downloaded.

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Part 2

Self-Tests Part, 1

• "The Three-Century Woman," Richard Peck
• "The Fall of the Hindenburg," Michael Morrison
• "Papa's Parrot," Cynthia Rylant
• "MK," Jean Fritz
• from An American Childhood, Annie Dillard
• "The Luckiest Time of All," Lucille Clifton
• from Barrio Boy, Ernesto Galarza
  "A Day's Wait," Ernest Hemingway

Self-Tests, Part 2

• "All Summer in a Day," Ray Bradbury
• "Suzy and Leah," Jane Yolen
• "My First Free Summer," Julia Alvarez
• "My Furthest-Back Person," Alex Haley
• "Melting Pot," Anna Quindlen
  "Was Tarzan a Three-Bandage Man?," Bill Cosby

Internet Activities

• "Papa's Parrot," Cynthia Rylant
• "MK," Jean Fritz
• from An American Childhood, Annie Dillard
• "The Luckiest Time of All," Lucille Clifton
• "All Summer in a Day," Ray Bradbury
• "Suzy and Leah," Jane Yolen
• "My First Free Summer," Julia Alvarez
• "My Furthest-Back Person," Alex Haley

Crosswords

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Part 2

• "The Treasure of Lemon Brown," Walter Dean Myers
• "The Bear Boy," Joseph Bruchac
• "Rikki-tikki-tavi," Rudyard Kipling
• from Letters from Rifka, Karen Hesse
• "Two Kinds," Amy Tan
• "Seventh Grade," Gary Soto
  "Stolen Day," Sherwood Anderson

• "The Third Wish," Joan Aiken
• "Amigo Brothers," Piri Thomas
• "Zoo," Edward Hoch
• "Ribbons," Laurence Yep
• "After Twenty Years," O. Henry
  "H—ey, Come on Ou—t," Shinichi Hoshi

Internet Activities

• "The Bear Boy," Joseph Bruchac
• "Rikki-tikki-tavi," Rudyard Kipling
• from Letters from Rifka, Karen Hesse
• "Two Kinds" from The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
• "The Third Wish," Joan Aiken
• "Amigo Brothers," Piri Thomas
• "Zoo," Edward D. Hoch
• "Ribbons," Laurence Yep

Crosswords

Unit 4

Poetry

Crosswords

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Part 2

Self-Tests, Part 1

• "Maestro," "The Desert is My Mother/ El desierto es mi madre," and "Bailando," Pat Mora
• "The Rider," Naomi Shihab Nye
  "Seal", William Jay Smith
  "Haiku," Buson
• "Winter," Nikki Giovanni
  "Forsythia," Mary Ellen Solt
  "Haiku," Basho
• "Life," Naomi Long Madgett
  "The Courage That my Mother Had," Edna St. Vincent Millay
  "Loo-Wit," Wendy Rose
• "Mother to Son," Langston Hughes
  "The Village Blacksmith," Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  "Fog," Carl Sandburg
• "The Highwayman," Alfred Noyes
  "The Cremation of Sam McGee," Robert Service
  "How I Learned English," Gregory Djanikian

• "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out," Shel Silverstein
  "Weather," Eve Merriam
  "One," James Berry
• "Full Fathom Five," William Shakespeare
  "Onomatopoeia," Eve Merriam
  "Train Tune," Louise Bogan
• "Annabel Lee," Edgar Allan Poe
  "Martin Luther King," Raymond Richard Patterson
  "I'm Nobody," Emily Dickinson
• "Jim," Gwendolyn Brooks
  "Father William," Lewis Carroll
  "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening," Robert Frost
• "Miracles," Walt Whitman
  "in Just—," E. E. Cummings

Internet Activities

• "Seal," William Jay Smith
  "The Rider," Naomi Shihab Nye
  "Three Haiku," Buson
• "Winter," Nikki Giovanni
  "Forsythia," Mary Ellen Solt
  "Three Haiku," Basho
• "Loo-Wit," Wendy Rose
  "Life," Naomi Long Madgett
  "The Courage That My Mother Had," Edna St. Vincent Millay
• "Mother to Son," Langston Hughes
  "The Village Blacksmith," Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  "Fog," Carl Sandburg
• "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out," Shel Silverstein
  "Weather," Eve Merriam
  "One," James Berry
• "Train Tune," Louise Bogan
  "Full Fathom Five," William Shakespeare
  "Onomatopoeia," Eve Merriam
• "Annabel Lee," Edgar Allan Poe
  "Martin Luther King," Raymond Richard Patterson
  "I'm Nobody," Emily Dickinson
• "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," Robert Frost
  "Jim," Gwendolyn Brooks
  "Father William," Lewis Carroll

Unit 5
Drama

Crosswords

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Self-Tests, Part 1

• from Dragonwings, Laurence Yep
• A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley, Act I, Israel Horovitz
• A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley, Act II, Israel Horovitz

• "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street," Rod Serling
• from Grandpa and the Statue, Arthur Miller
  "My Head Is Full of Starshine," Peg Kehret

• A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley, Acts I & II, Israel Horovitz based on A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
• "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street", Rod Serling

Unit 6
Themes in Folk Literature

Crosswords 

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Part 2

Self-Tests, Part 1

• "Grasshopper Logic," "The Other Frog Prince," and "Duckbilled Platypus vs. Beefsnakstik®," Jon Scieszka
• "Icarus and Daedalus," Josephine Preston Peabody
• "Demeter and Persephone," Anne Terry White
• "Tenochtitlan: Inside the Aztec Capital," Jacqueline Dineen
• "Popocatepetl and Ixtlaccihuatl," Juliet Piggott
• "Perseus," Alice Low
  "Percy-Us Brings the Gawgon's Head," Lloyd Alexander

• "Sun and Moon in a Box," Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz
• "How the Snake Got Poison," Zora Neale Hurston
• "The People Could Fly," Virginia Hamilton
• "All Stories Are Anansi's," Harold Courlander
• "The Fox Outwits the Crow," William Cleary
  "The Fox and the Crow," Aesop

• "Icarus and Daedalus," Josephine Preston Peabody
• "Demeter and Persephone," Anne Terry White
• "Tenochtitlan: Inside the Aztec Capital," Jacqueline Dineen
• "Popocateptl and Ixtlaccihuatl," Juliet Piggott
• "Sun and Moon in a Box," Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz
• "How the Snake Got Poison," Zora Neale Hurston
• "The People Could Fly," Virginia Hamilton
• "All Stories Are Anansi's," Harold Courlander

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John David Shanks
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