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• Understanding a Midsummer Night's Dream: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents, Faith Nostbakken and Claudia Durst Johnson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)

• Word of Mouth: The Food You Eat, Nancy Rogers Bontempo
• Food, Paul Mason
• Do You Know Where Your Food Comes From?, Neil Morris
• Dairy: From the Farm to Your Table, Brian Hanson, Harding
• Feeding Relationships, Ann Fullick
• From Farm to Table, Richard Spilsbury
• What's Cooking? The History of American Food, Silvia Whitman
• Feeding the World, Anne Rooney

Texts Above Lexile 1185

• Food: Ethical Debates in What We Eat, Jim Kerr
• Food and Farming, Jen Green