ELA - Wit & Wisdom

• Module 1 - A Great Heart

CORE TEXTS

• Novel (Literary) - Love That Dog, Sharon Creech

• Scientific Text (Informational) - The Circulatory Story, Mary K. Corcoran; Illustrations, Jef Czekaj

SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS

• Painting ---- Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic), Thomas Eakins

• Image --- Image of a subway map system

• Poems

• “The Red Wheelbarrow,” William Carlos Williams

• “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” Robert Frost

• “The Pasture,”Robert Frost

• “Love That Boy,” Walter Dean Myers

• “dog,” Valerie Worth

• “Heart to Heart,” Rita Dove

• “The Tiger,” William Blake

• “Street Music,” Arnold Adoff

• Videos

• “Exploring the Heart - The Circulatory System!”

• “Grand Central Terminal, NYC”

• “Gallery Walk”

• Biographies

• Biography of Anne Frank

• Biography of Clara Barton

• Biography of Helen Keller

• Module 2 - Extreme Settings

CORE TEXTS

• Novel (Literary) --- Hatchet, Gary Paulsen

• Short Story (Literary) ---- “All Summer in a Day,” Ray Bradbury

• Scientific Text (Informational)

• Mountains, Seymour Simon

• SAS Survival Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Surviving Anywhere, John “Lofty” Wiseman

• Poems

• “Dust of Snow,” Robert Frost

• “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” Robert Frost

SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS

• Art

• Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright

• Videos

• “All Summer in a Day”

• “Tidal Wave”

• “Explode a Moment with Barry Lane”

• “Planet Venus: The Deadliest Planet, Venus Surface & Atmosphere”

• “Costa Rica—Rainforest Heavy Rain”

• “4 Hours of Heavy Pouring Rain and Thunder”

• “Barry Lane writes about ‘His Favorite Day’”

• “Planet Earth—Mountains”

• “What Is a Mountain?”

• Websites

• Fallingwater

• National Geographic Lost Cities Photos

• Module 3 - The Redcoats are Coming!

CORE TEXTS

• Novel (Literary) --- Woods Runner, Gary Paulsen

• Picture Book (Literary) ---- The Scarlet Stockings Spy, Trinka Hakes Noble

• Poetry

• Colonial Voices: Hear Them Speak, Kay Winters

• Historical Account (Informational)

• George vs. George: The American Revolution as Seen from Both Sides, Rosalyn Schanzer

SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS

• Articles (Informational)

• “Massacre in King Street,” Mark Clemens

• “Detested Tea,” Andrew Matthews

• Art

• The Boston Massacre, Paul Revere

• Washington Crossing the Delaware, Emanuel Leutze

• Raising the Flag at Ground Zero, Thomas Franklin

• Video

• “Paul Revere—Mini Biography”

• “Fred Woods Trail—Driftwood, Pennsylvania”

• “The Culper Spy Ring: Path through History”

• “REBUILD—From The Ashes, The World Trade Center Rises Again”

• Audio

• Woods Runner, Gary Paulsen

• Websites

• EDSITEment:Emanuel Leutze’s Symbolic Scene of Washington Crossing the Delaware

• "Paul Revere's Engraving of the Boston Massacre--1710" The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

• Module 4 - Myth Making

CORE TEXTS

Drama (Literary)

• Pushing Up the Sky: Native American Plays for Children, Joseph Bruchac

Historical Account (Informational)

• Understanding Greek Myths, Natalie Hyde

Myth (Literary)

• Gifts from the Gods: Ancient Words & Wisdom from Greek & Roman Mythology, Lise Lunge-Larsen

Novel (Literary)

• Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech

SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS

Art

• Pandora, Dante Gabriel Rossetti

• Pandora, Odilon Redon

• Parthenon

• Winged Victory of Samothrace

Myths (Literary)

• “When Raven Soared,” Leigh Anderson

• “The Sun, Moon, and Stars,” retold by Donna Henes

• “Legend of the Moccasin Flower,” retold by Mary Morton Cowan

• “The Raven Steals the Light,” Bill Reid and Robert Bringhurst

Poetry

• “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls,” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• “the little horse is newlY,” e.e. cummings

Videos

• “Aerial Acropolis focusing on Parthenon house of goddess Athena/Acropolis, Athens, Greece”

• “Secrets of the Parthenon,” PBS Nova

• “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls”

• “Samothrace Reconstruction: Hieron to Nike”

Website

• American Excavations Samothrace, Emory University

• “A Closer Look at Winged Victory of Samothrace,” Louvre photos