BCS 8th Grade ELA Unit Guide Unit 5 – Perseverance (4.5 Weeks) Suggested Text (Examples of text) Short Story by Toni Cade Bambara (Textbook * +) “Raymond’s Run” Tortoise and the “The Hare” (Aesop Fable) a by Jack London “To Build Fire” Non-Fiction Diary of a excerpt from novel by Anne Frank (Textbook *) “The Young Girl” Last Seven Months of Anne excerpt by Hannah Elisabeth Pick-Gosler (Textbook +) “The Frank” Have a “Decades After King’s ‘I Dream’ Speech, Hate Crimes Still Exist” on “March Washington” History Channel Speech Have a by Martin Luther King, Jr. YouTube video “I Dream” Text: Poetry to by Langston Hughes (Textbook * +) “Mother Son” by Lyn Lifshin “Crystal Night” by John C. Pine “The Survivor” Novel by John Boyne The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by Han Nolan (Not on BCS Middle School Approved List) If I Should Die Before I Wake by Allan Zullo (Not on BCS Middle School Approved List) We Fought Back: Teen Resistors of the Holocaust Textbooks Referenced: * Grade 8, Holt McDougal, 2012 + Grade 8, McDougal Littell , 2006 Literature The Language of Literature
BCS 8th Grade ELA Unit Guide Unit 5 – Perseverance (4.5 Weeks) Suggested Text (Examples of text) Short Story “Raymond’s Run” by Toni Cade Bambara (Textbook * +) “The Tortoise and the Hare” (Aesop Fable) “To Build a Fire” by Jack London Non-Fiction “The Diary of a Young Girl” excerpt from novel by Anne Frank (Textbook *) “The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank” excerpt by Hannah Elisabeth Pick-Gosler (Textbook +) “Decades After King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech, Hate Crimes Still Exist” “March on Washington” History Channel Speech “I Have a Dream” by Martin Luther King, Jr. YouTube video Text: Poetry “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes (Textbook * +) “Crystal Night” by Lyn Lifshin “The Survivor” by John C. Pine Novel The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne If I Should Die Before I Wake by Han Nolan (Not on BCS Middle School Approved List) We Fought Back: Teen Resistors of the Holocaust by Allan Zullo (Not on BCS Middle School Approved List) Textbooks Referenced: * Literature Grade 8, Holt McDougal, 2012 + The Language of Literature Grade 8, McDougal Littell , 2006
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