Book List
Novels/Short Stories:
Where the Red Fern Grows
Episodes from Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes)- Core Classics edition novel
Little Women (Part First) (Louisa May Alcott)- Abridged by Muriel Fuller (Scholastic)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Frederick Douglass)- Core Classics edition novel
The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett edition)
Tales of Sherlock Holmes, including “The Red-Headed League” (Arthur Conan Doyle)- Core Classics edition novel
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (William Shakespeare)
Across Five Aprils
Read Alouds/Short Stories:
MYTHS AND LEGENDS
A Tale of the Oki Islands (a legend from Japan, also known as “The Samurai’s Daughter”)
Morning Star and Scarface: the Sun Dance (a Plains Native American legend, also known as “The Legend of Scarface”)
Native American trickster stories (for example, tales of Coyote, Raven, or Grandmother Spider)
Speeches:
Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address
Chief Joseph (Highh’moot Tooyalakekt): “I will fight no more forever”
Poetry:
The Arrow And The Song (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Barbara Frietchie (John Greenleaf Whittier)
Battle Hymn of the Republic (Julia Ward Howe)
A bird came down the walk (Emily Dickinson)
Casey at the Bat (Ernest Lawrence Thayer)
The Eagle (Alfred Lord Tennyson)
I Hear America Singing (Walt Whitman)
I like to see it lap the miles (Emily Dickinson)
I, too, sing America (Langston Hughes)
Jabberwocky (Lewis Carroll)
Narcissa (Gwendolyn Brooks)
O Captain! My Captain! (Walt Whitman)
A Poison Tree (William Blake)
The Road Not Taken (Robert Frost)
The Snowstorm (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Some Opposites (Richard Wilbur)
The Tiger (William Blake)
A Wise Old Owl (Edward Hersey Richards)