8th Grade Extension Texts

Module 1: Vietnam, Refugees, Immigration

Grade 6-8 Texts (Lexile 925-1185)

Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy, Andrea Warren
Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives, James Freeman
Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Natalie M. Rosinsky
The Fall of Saigon, Mary Englar
Vietnamese in America, Lori Coleman
Refugees & Asylum Seekers, Dave Dalton
Vietnam, Charlotte Guillain
The Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam, Quang Nhuong Huynh
Migration and Refugees, Quang Nhuong Huynh
Vietnamese American, John F. Grabowski
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace, Le Ly Hayslip
The Vietnam War, Cath Senker
Water Buffalo Days: Growing Up in Vietnam, Quang Nhuong Huynh
Refugees, Clarissa Aykroyd

Texts Above Lexile 1185

10,000 Days of Thunder: A History of the Vietnam War, Philip Caputo
The Vietnamese Americans, Hien Duc Do
The Vietnamese Boat People: 1954 and 1975-1992, Nghia M Vo
Boat People: Personal Stories from the Vietnamese Exodus 1975-1996, Carina Hoang
Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans, Ronald Takaki
Voices of Vietnamese Boat People: Nineteen Narratives of Escape and Survival, Mary Terrell Cargill and Jade Quang Huynh
The Vietnamese, Michelle Houle
Weeping Under This Same Moon, Jana Laiz

Module 2: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Grade 6-8 Texts (Lexile 925-1185)

A Teen's Guide to World Domination: Advice on Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Awesomeness, Josh Shipp
The Wednesday Wars, Gary D. Schmidt
The Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare, Diane Stanley

Texts Above Lexile 1185

The Plays of Shakespeare: A Thematic Guide, Victor L Cahn
Symposium and Phaedrus, Plato
A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Graphic Novel: Original Text Version, John McDonald
A Theatergoer's Guide to Shakespeare's Themes, Robert Fallon
Living with Shakespeare, Susannah Carson
Shakespeare A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Plays, His Poems, His Life and Times and More, Charles Boyce
Shakespeare: The World as Stage, Bill Bryson
Understanding a Midsummer Night's Dream: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents, Faith Nostbakken and Claudia Durst Johnson

Module 3: Little Rock Nine and Civil Rights

Grades 6-8 Texts (Lexile 925-1185)

Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories, Ellen S. Levine
Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children, and Don't You Grow Weary, Elizabeth Partridge
Warriors Don't Cry: The Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High, Melba Patillo Beals
Students on Strike: Jim Crow, Civil Rights, Brown and Me: A Memoir, John A. Stokes
Miles to Go for Freedom: Segregation & Civil Rights in the Jim Crow Years, Linda Osborne
The Little Rock Nine: Struggle for Integration, Stephanie Fitzgerald
Today the World is Watching You: The Little Rock Nine and the Fight for School Integration, 1957, Kekla Magoon

Texts Above Lexile 1185

Words of Protest, Words of Freedom: Poetry of the American Civil Rights Movement and Era, Jeffrey Lamar Coleman
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality, Richard Kluger
Plessy v. Ferguson: A Brief History with Documents, Brook Thomas
A Life is More Than a Moment: The Desegregation of Little Rock's Central High, Wilmer Counts
Beyond Central, Toward Acceptance: A Collection of Oral Histories from Students of Little Rock Central High, Mackie O'Hara and Alex Richardson

Module 4: Food Sustainability

Grade 6-8 Texts (Lexile 925-1185)

Texts Above Lexile 1185