See below for links to stories in our big green anthology and a link to our entire grammar text book!
These are links to texts we are using posted by other users online. Ignore any accompanying questions on the sites; just find the actual story text. If the link does not work, try copying and pasting the URL into your browser.
Short stories from the Big Green anthology (alphabetical order):
“After Twenty Years” http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/131/the-four-million/2413/after-twenty-years/
“Amigo Brothers” http://www.dentonisd.org/cms/lib/tx21000245/centricity/domain/6937/amigobrothers.pdf
“Annabel Lee” http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/44885
“Bargain” http://bargainabguthrie.edublogs.org/files/2014/03/Bargain-AB-Guthrie-1c1ze8f.pdf
“Barrio Boy” http://www.dublin.k12.ca.us/cms/lib5/ca01001424/centricity/domain/579/barrio-boy-story.pdf
“Duffy’s Jacket” http://www.riverdell.org/cms/lib05/NJ01001380/Centricity/Domain/269/Duffys%20Jacket.pdf
“Echo and Narcissus” http://clevelandm.johnston.k12.nc.us/common/pages/UserFile.aspx?fileId=15652693
“Elizabeth I” blogs.glnd.k12.va.us/ktalley/files/2014/03/Elizabeth-I.pdf (copy this URL into your browser)
“Fish Cheeks” http://www.ncps-k12.org/cms/lib8/CT01903077/Centricity/Domain/638/LA/Short%20Story%20-%20Fish%20Cheeks.pdf
“The Highwayman” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/43187
“I Am of Earth”/”Early Song” http://mrstjudds.blogspot.com/2016/01/earth-paired-poems.html
“I’m Nobody” https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/im-nobody-who-are-you-260
“Madam and the Rent Man” https://allpoetry.com/Madam-and-The-Rent-Man
“maggie and milly and molly and may” https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/maggie-and-milly-and-molly-and-may
“A Mason-Dixon Memory” http://www.chickensoup.com/book-story/38785/a-mason-dixon-memory
“Merlin and the Dragons” http://centroderecursosmarista.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Merlin-and-the-Dragons.pdf
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street http://www.mychandlerschools.org/cms/lib6/AZ01001175/Centricity/Domain/7283/Monsters%20are%20Due%20on%20Maple%20Street%20Script.pdf
“Mother and Daughter” http://www.tigerwires.com/cms/lib3/PA01000001/Centricity/Domain/341/Mother%20and%20Daughter%20hreader.pdf
“Names/Nombres” http://www.fengerhighschool.org/ourpages/auto/2012/8/22/50046996/1_2%20Alvarez_%20Julia%20-%20Names%20Nombres.pdf
“A Rice Sandwich” https://msmoore.wordpress.com/doc/a-rice-sandwich/
“Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mongoose/rtt.html
“The Runaway” http://www.marinrose.org/poem-winter98.html
“Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady” http://www.scasd.org/cms/lib5/PA01000006/Centricity/Domain/1252/Sir%20Gawain%20story.pdf
“Song of the Trees” http://www.warrencountyschools.org/userfiles/3281/Classes/80540/Song-of-the-Trees-Text.pdf
“Three Skeleton Key” http://www.scaryforkids.com/three-skeleton-key-free-horror-story/
“User Friendly” http://www.riverdell.org/cms/lib05/NJ01001380/Centricity/Domain/198/User%20Friendly%20Master%20Copy%202011.pdf
“Yeh-Shen” http://www.myseveralworlds.com/2007/08/02/yeh-shen-the-chinese-cinderella/
Novels/big units:
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
https://www.secret-satire-society.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Ray-Bradbury-Fahrenheit-451.pdf
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
https://www.ibiblio.org/ebooks/Dickens/Carol/Dickens_Carol.pdf
The Watsons Go To Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis
https://1.cdn.edl.io/gcDQkazPQ4dU9pMqGBNEg97s19CQnGYan9zN1CL2pwO1bgb2.pdf
Links to audio/texts for classics unit:
Twain
Tom Sawyer full text: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rgs/sawyr-table.html
Tom Sawyer full audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF7lSyjmZwQ Note: "Glorious Whitewasher" scene starts at 18:23 min. , "Showing off at Sunday School" chapter at 41:34.
O. Henry
Ransom of Red Chief: Full text/possibly audio: http://www.manythings.org/voa/stories/The_Ransom_of_Red_Chief_-_By_O._Henry.html
audio on YouTube: Part I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_SxCvB_1js Part II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0P4nPUMUwA
After Twenty Years: audio + text: http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/131/the-four-million/2413/after-twenty-years/
Here's the link to our entire grammar textbook!
http://tigerenglish7.pbworks.com/f/Start+Holt+Handbook+7.pdf